Final Exam - (9/6/16, 9/8/16) Flashcards
_________ – the study of the nervous system
Neuroscience
_________ - the study of the relationship between behavior and brain function
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology -
- The study of _________ human behavior (emotion, cognition etc.) based on the function of the _________
- Assessment of changes in _________ and neural function due to disease or traumatic brain injury
- Involves physiology, biopsychology, anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology etc
- normal
- brain
- behavior
Neuropsychology -
- The study of normal human behavior (emotion, cognition etc.) based on the function of the brain
- Assessment of changes in behavior and _________ function due to disease or _________ brain injury
- Involves physiology, _________, anatomy, _________, pharmacology etc
- neural
- traumatic
- biopsychology
- biochemistry
All psychological processes are based on _________ processes, many of which occur in the _________
- biological
- brain
_________ is a description of the things the brain does
mind = brain _________
- Mind
- activity
Damage to one brain _________ may affect one aspect of a _________
- region
- behavior
Example of distributed _________ organization of function – the case of HM
Treatment for epilepsy – bilateral surgical removal of medial aspects of _________ lobe Surgery caused specific memory problems – could not form new memories
Old memories were retained
- hierarchical
- temporal
-Distributed hierarchical organization of function-
If unique aspects of a behavior reside in different areas of the brain, why don’t we perceive the different aspects of the behavior? _________ problem
Binding
_________ -
Multiple brain regions involved in forming
and interpreting images but we perceive a _________ image
- Vision
- single
Vision:
-Conscious and unconscious _________ streams
–Damage to conscious stream
(ventral stream) – cannot see or _________ an object
–No damage to unconscious stream
(dorsal) stream – can reach for an object but
cannot see it
- neural
- recognize
Vision:
-Conscious and unconscious _________ streams
–Damage to conscious stream
(_________ stream) – cannot see or recognize an object
–No damage to unconscious stream
(_________) stream – can reach for an object but
cannot see it
- ventral
- dorsal
-Neurons and Neural Transmission -
Premise - All _________ processes are due to biological processes, particularly the biological processes in the _________ system and the brain
- psychological
- nervous
-Neurons and Neural Transmission-
The building blocks of the nervous system –_________
NEURONS
-Neurons and Neural Transmission-
The brain has been estimated to consist of _________ billion neurons
85 - 120
-Neurons and Neural Transmission-
Neurons = ___% of the brain’s cells, _________ cells 2 – 10 times the number of neurons
- 10
- glial
-Neurons and Neural Transmission-
Neurons receive, _________, and pass on _________ in the brain
- integrate
- information
-Neurons -
Signals travel from the _________ to the terminal branches of the _________
- dendrites
- axon
-Neurons-
- Signals are called _________ and consist of a brief change in the electrical _________ of the neuron
- Travel at 2 – 200 miles/h
- ACTION POTENTIALS
- polarization
-Neurons-
- Signals are called ACTION POTENTIALS and consist of a brief change in the electrical polarization of the neuron
- Travel at _________ miles/h
2 – 200
-Neurons-
_________ - bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct them toward the _________
–The greater the surface area of dendrites the more information they can receive – dendritic spines increase surface area
- DENDRITES
- cell body
-Neurons-
DENDRITES - bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct them toward the cell body
–The greater the _________ of dendrites the more information they can receive
– _________ increase surface area
- surface area
- dendritic spines
-Neurons-
CELL BODY (\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_) – contains the nucleus with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ --Conducts metabolic processes to support the survival of the neuron (energy, waste removal etc)
- Soma
- DNA
-Neurons-
CELL BODY (Soma) – contains the nucleus with DNA --Conducts \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ processes to support the survival of the neuron (energy, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ removal etc)
- metabolic
- waste
-Neurons-
_________ - extension of the neuron through which signals are passed – can be very long or very short
- _________ (start of axon)
- Axon terminals (teleodendria)
- AXON
- Axon hillock
-Neurons-
_________ – glial cells filled with fatty tissue (myelin) that surround the axons of many neurons allowing signals to be rapidly passed down the axon
- _________ - gaps in myelin sheath through which action potentials are transmitted
MYELIN SHEATH
-NODES of RANVIER
-Neurons-
MYELIN SHEATH – glial cells filled with _________ (myelin) that surround the axons of many _________ allowing signals to be rapidly passed down the axon
-NODES of RANVIER - gaps in myelin sheath through which action potentials are transmitted
- fatty tissue
- neurons
-Neurons-
MYELIN SHEATH – glial cells filled with fatty tissue (myelin) that surround the axons of many neurons allowing signals to be rapidly passed down the axon
-NODES of RANVIER - gaps in _________ through which action potentials are _________
- myelin sheath
- transmitted
3 main types of neurons :
- _________
- Interneurons
- _________
- Sensory neurons
- Motor neurons