Extra textbook questions from Chapter 1 and 2

Question 1

The absence of ACh is common in which disease?

Answer 1

Alzheimer’s

Question 2

Which disease happens when there is too much dopamine? Too little?

Answer 2

too much: schizophrenia
too little: parkinson’s

Question 3

What disease happens when there is too little serotonin/norepinephrine?

Answer 3

depression

Question 4

What disease happens when there is too little GABA?

Answer 4

seizures, tremors, insomnia

Question 5

What disease happens when there is too much glutamate?

Answer 5

migraines or seizures

Question 6

How does an EEG work?
example of study using EEG

Answer 6

• electrodes on scalp
• depression/anxiety correlate with increase activity of RFL

Question 7

How does an MEG work?
example of study using MEG

Answer 7

head coil records magnetic feilds from brains electrical currents
- PTSD: stronger magnetic fields when shown traumatic images

Question 8

How does a PET work?
example of study using PET

Answer 8

tracks radioactive glucose
- anxious monkeys use more glucose in fear regions of the brain

Question 9

How does an MRI work?
example of study using MRI

Answer 9

magnetic fields and radio waves map the brain
- voilent people have smaller frontal lobes visible on MRI

Question 10

How does an fMRI work?
example of study using fMRI

Answer 10

measures blood flow to brain regions by comparing MRIs
- plane crash survivors showed activation in fear and memory areas when looking at 9/11 videos

Question 11

what is reticular formation

Answer 11

nerve network from spinal chord to thalamus, filters and relays to other areas, arousal

Question 12

Damage to the ______ would make you unable to hear

Answer 12

thalamus

Question 13

What is the limbic system? what is included in the limbic system?

Answer 13

border between the old and new brain
- hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala

Question 14

What does the hypothalamus control?

Answer 14

reward centre, hunger thirst body temp sex

Question 15

What is reward deficiency syndrome?

Answer 15

people seek relief from negative feelings

Question 16

What is lesioning?

Answer 16

making scar tissue in the brain

Question 17

What did Fritsch and Hitzig discover?

Answer 17

mild stimulus of the cortex makes the body move

Question 18

What did Foerster and Penfield discover?

Answer 18

mapped the motor cortex by stimulating the cortex of wide awake patients

Question 19

What are association areas?

Answer 19

NOT involved in primary motor or sensory functions; higher mental functions like learning, remembering, thinking, speaking
- found in all 4 lobes
- interprets, integrates and acts on sensory information

Question 20

Which lobe is in charge of mathematical and spatial reasoning

Answer 20

parietal lobes

Question 21

the flexible brain’s ability to respond to damage is evident in _______

Answer 21

young children

Question 22

What is psychodynamic psychology?

Answer 22

behaviour springs from unconscious drives/ conflicts

Question 23

What is social cultural psychology?

Answer 23

How behaviour and thinking vary across situations and cultures

Question 24

What is behavioural psychology?

Answer 24

how we respond to and learn in different situations

Question 25

What is meta analysis?

Answer 25

statistical procedure for analyzing the results of multiple studies ot reach an overall conclusion

Question 26

What is an illusory correlation?

Answer 26

perceiving a relationship where none exists/ a weak one

Question 27

What is random sample?

Answer 27

a sample that fairly represents a population because each member of the population has an equal chance of participating

Question 28

Which measure of central tendency is easily distorted by a few high or low scores?

Answer 28

mean