Midterm 1

Question 1

affective forecasting

Answer 1

can be difficult
predicting future emotional states

Question 2

EEG testing

Answer 2

method of fast testing
predicting future emotional states
bad because there’s a lot of stuff in the way

Question 3

neuroscience

Answer 3

is good to make things sound more reliable
people will buy into it more

Question 4

2x2

Answer 4

two independent variables
4 levels

Question 5

4x2x2

Answer 5

three independent variables
16 levels

Question 6

operational definition

Answer 6

statement of procedures, variables used to define research

Question 7

rem sleep

Answer 7

when ppl r dreaming

Question 8

Cat scan

Answer 8

good structural resolution
exposure to x rays

Question 9

Imaging

Answer 9

CAT, multiple x rays
PET
MRI

Question 10

PET

Answer 10

advantage to see brain in action/motion/function
like a pet is like moving so its like action
but slow, so like some pets get slow too

Question 11

MRI

Answer 11

magnetic af

Question 12

neuroscience good for

Answer 12

what individuals won’t tell you, social desirability concerns
wat they won’t tell you/unaware

Question 13

Primary Motor projection area

Answer 13

wrist, arm, trunk, knee, eye, tongue, fingers, lips

Question 14

somatosensory primary projection area

Answer 14

genitals, gums,

Question 15

Broca’s frontal

Answer 15

cant produce language

Question 16

wernicke temporal

Answer 16

cant produce intelligble language

Question 17

visual cortex

Answer 17

recieves written words as visual simulation

Question 18

angular gyrus

Answer 18

transforms visual representations into an auditory code

Question 19

motor cortex

Answer 19

word is pronounced

Question 20

broca’s area

Answer 20

controls speech muscles via motor cortex

Question 21

wernicke’s area

Answer 21

interprets auditory code

Question 22

edorphins

Answer 22

influence pain/pleasure, feel after a workout, acupuncture, runner’s high

encorrer like run like pain

Question 23

Serotonin

Answer 23

affects mood, hunger, sleep, arousal, don’t have enough –> depression

Question 24

transcranial magnetic stimulation

Answer 24

turn the brain off!
manipulate brain activityt

Question 25

neglect symdrome

Answer 25

damage to right parietal region, ppl with this damage ignore the left side of the world
right side of the brain, controls the left side of the body

Question 26

what if there’s damage to the left side of the brain?

Answer 26

no they will still have control over the right side
Gerstmann syndrome (left parietal)
deficits in writing, math

Question 27

brain responsible for one specific part?

Answer 27

noooo, not one single issue is due to a specific region in the brain

Question 28

amygdala

Answer 28

fear and stress

Question 29

brain surgery, uncontrollable seizures

Answer 29

split corups callosum
- carries brain signals between two halves

Question 30

right handed people

Answer 30

oral speech in left hemisphere

Question 31

dendrites

Answer 31

recieve nerves from other and send the signals

Question 32

Axon

Answer 32

passes messages away from cell body to other neurons

Question 33

myselin sheath

Answer 33

makes nueron signal more efficient

Question 34

the journey

Answer 34

presympatic to postsynaptic
take signal then used again

Question 35

conciousness

Answer 35

subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 36

inattentional blindness

Answer 36

by product of what we really good at focusing attention on some part of the environment

Question 37

dual processing

Answer 37

like seeing a bird and thinking o its a hummingbird but what ur also processing but not noticing is the color, size, etc

Question 38

communal sleeping benefits

Answer 38

at least one be in an easily awakened stage

Question 39

sleep cycle

Answer 39

rem, n1, n2, n3, then n2 again then rem

Question 40

n1

Answer 40

fleeting images

Question 41

n3

Answer 41

minimal awareness

Question 42

rem

Answer 42

story like dream

Question 43

sleepwalking happens in ___

Answer 43

n3