Intro

Question 1

What is biological Psychology?

Answer 1

The study of the brain and how it produces behaviour and mental processes

Question 2

What is neuroanatomy?

Answer 2

The study of neural architecture of various brain regions along with the mapping of the pathways that connect them

Question 3

What is Neurophysiology ?

Answer 3

The study of how neurons produce action potentials and neural information

Question 4

What is physiological psychology?

Answer 4

The study of the brain and behaviour. “Physiological” techniques such is lesioning and stimulation.

Question 5

What are ventricles?

Answer 5

A series of fluid-filled cavities that could be seen when the brain was sliced open.

Question 6

Who is Descartes?

Answer 6

A french philosopher and mathematician.

Question 7

Where did Descartes propose that the mind and body interacted?

Answer 7

The pineal gland

Question 8

According to Descartes, what is a reflex?

Answer 8

An automatic, stereotyped movement produced as the direct result of a stimulus.

Question 9

Who experimented on amputated frogs legs?

Answer 9

Luigi Galvani (1791)

Question 10

What did Luigi Galvani discover?

Answer 10

Nervous tissue contains electrical energy.

Question 11

Neurons receive most of their input via their….

Answer 11

dendrites.

Question 12

Another word for cell body is?

Answer 12

Soma

Question 13

What is the axon protected by?

Answer 13

The Myelin sheath

Question 14

What is a golgi stain?

Answer 14

staining nervous tissue with silver nitrate so they could be seen under a microscope.

Question 15

Gaps between neurons are called?

Answer 15

Synapses

Question 16

A neurone before the synapse is called?

Answer 16

presynaptic neuron

Question 17

The recipient neuron is called?

Answer 17

postsynaptic neuron

Question 18

How do nerve cells in the body communicate with each other?

Answer 18

By secreting neurotransmitters into synapses.

Question 19

Drugs that mimic neurotransmitters are called?

Answer 19

agonists

Question 20

Drugs that block a neurotransmitter at its receptor site are called?

Answer 20

antagonist

Question 21

The first neurotransmitter to be discovered?

Answer 21

Acetylcholine (ACH)

Question 22

What does the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine do?

Answer 22

muscular movement, regulating REM sleep, perceptual learning and memory

Question 23

What is the primary neurotransmitter secreted by efferent axons of the CNS?

Answer 23

Acetylcholine

Question 24

Adrenaline (epinephrine) is a hormone secreted by the

Answer 24

adrenal medulla

Question 25

Dopamine affects…

Answer 25

movement, attention, learning and reinforcing affects of abused drugs.

Question 26

What function does noradrenaline (NA) norepinephrine have?

Answer 26

vigilance or attentiveness to events in the environment

Question 27

What controls the regulation of mood, the control of eating, sleep, dreaming and arousal?

Answer 27

Serotonin (5HT)

Question 28

What is the most important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain and spinal chord?

Answer 28

GABA gamma-aminobutyric

Question 29

What is the most important excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain?

Answer 29

Glutamate

Question 30

Class of peptides secreted by the brain that acts as opiates. Drugs that effect opioid receptors. Reduce pain

Answer 30

Endorphins

Question 31

What neurotransmitter reduces pain?

Answer 31

Endorphins

Question 32

One of the endogenous opioids

Answer 32

Enkephalins