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Psych 250 Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
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What happens when it comes to Neurotransmitters release?

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  1. Bind
  2. Enzymatic Deactivation
  3. Reuptake
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What is a small hyper polarization produced in the postsynaptic cell as a result of input from the presynaptic cell?

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Inhibitory postsynaptic potential (ISPS)

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What is a small depolarization produced in the postsynaptic cell as a result of input from the presynaptic cell?

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Excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP)

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What is selected within the ventricles of the brain via choroid plexus which converts material from nearby blood into CSF?

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Cerebrospinal fluid

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What is a dopaminergic pathway originating in the ventral tegmentum of the midbrain and projecting to the prefrontal cortex?

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Mesocortical pathway or mesolimbic pathway

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What is a dopaminergic pathway originating in the substance nigra and projecting to the basal ganglia; also know as the nigrostrital pathway?

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Mesostriatal pathway or nigrostrotrial pathway

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What is the scientific study of the brain and nervous system, health and in disease?

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Neuroscience

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What scientific study incorporates the fields of psychology, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science?

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Neuroscience

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What promotes the removal of tissue-ablation with animals?

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Flourens

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What is a major inhibitory amino acid neurochemical?

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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)

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What is receptor is activated by Glutamate?

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N-methyl-D-aspartat (NMDA)

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What increases GABA effect and arousal state which tend to be more impulsive decision making process affected since your frontal cortex isn’t functioning as well?

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Alcohol

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What technology provides very high resolution structural images?

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

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What technology in which computers are used to enhance X-ray images?

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Computerized tomography (CT)

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What technology uses a series of high resolution images to asses the activity of the brain?

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Functional MRI (FMRI)

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16
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What is one of a group of neurochemicals that includes amino acids and amines?

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Small molecules

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17
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What promotes neurotransmitter affect?

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Agonist

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18
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What impedes the effect of a neurotransmitter?

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Antagonist

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What are the three R’s in animal research?

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Reduce - the numbers of animal used
Replace - the use of animals with other options
Refine - methods to ensure the most humane treatment possible

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What type of glial cells support and provide nutrients to the neuron?

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Glial astrocytes

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What type of glial cell is important for cleaning up debris?

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Microglia cell

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Apart from microglia, what other glial cell is also involved in the cleaning up process?

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Astrocytes

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What glial cell forms the myelination on the central nervous system?

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Oligodendrocytes

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What type of glial cell forms the myelin on axons in the peripheral nervous system?

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Schwann cells

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25
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What is a junction between 2 neurons at which information is transferee from one to another?

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Synapse

26
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What are genes and behavior issues?

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Direct, profound, and exclusivity

27
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What is the idea that the body is mechanistic but the mind is non-physical?

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Dualism

28
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Who was the one to invent the light microscope?

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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek

29
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Who were the two to share the 1906 Nobel Prize for their worn the makeup of the nervous system?

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Golgi and Cajai

30
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Who was the one to discover X-rays and was the first to take an X-ray image?

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Wilhem Rontgen

31
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Who associated with the idea that the nervous system has a hierarchal organization?

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John Hughling Jackson

32
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Who was the person to coin the term synapse?

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Charles Sherrington

33
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What size can the naked eye perceive objects?

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At least 0.2 mm in size

34
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What provides the least amount of magnification that is needed for a clear image?

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Light microscope

35
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What device is used to make very thin slices of tissues for histology?

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Microtome

36
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What is the best way to obtain a detailed view of structures?

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Studying a small number of single cell bodies

37
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Which imaging technology would be use to look into a head injury caused by an accident?

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Computer Tomography (CT)

38
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Which imaging technology uses powerful magnets to align hydrogen atoms within a magnetic field?

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Position Emission Tomography (PET)

39
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What imaging technology provides a way to observe the living brain as it images in process such as reading emotional reactions?

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Functional MRI (FMRI)

40
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What method is best used to get a clear image?

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Electron Microscope

41
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What is the understanding of the nervous system that has not been without its odd turns and dead ends?

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Phrenology

42
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What is a technique that involves using implanted micropipettes to filter tiny amount of extracellular fluid from the area of the brain surrounding the tips of the pipettes?

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Microdialysis

43
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What is one big drawback to rely on volunteers participation?

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Might lose the ability to generalize to certain population

44
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What type of study is base on cheating in which Intro to Psych students are told they can volunteer to participate in exchange for a few extra credit points?

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Ethical type study

45
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What type of biologist define evolution as descent with modification from a common ancestor?

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Modern biologist

46
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What is process by which favorable traits would become more common and unfavorable traits would become less common in subsequent generations?

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Natural selection

47
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When was the 1st hominid brain hypothesized to have appeared?

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7 million years ago

48
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If brain makes up only 2% of body weight, how much blood is pumped by the heart?

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10 - 15%

49
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What pathways brings sensory input and motor output to the spinal cords and to the brain?

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Somatic nervous system

50
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What is in control of hormones that is essential to digestion?

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Enteric nervous system

51
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What stain was developed by Camillo Golgi used to observe single neurons?

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Golgi stain

52
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What stain is used to view populations of cell bodies?

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Nissl stain

53
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What stain is used to trace neural pathways?

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Myelin stain

54
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What stain is used to trance neural pathways from their terminals to points of origin?

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Horseradish peroxidase

55
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What method is used for preparing a brain for examination that literally makes it transparent?

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Optical imaging

56
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What image technology looks at the brain pattern activity that is shown in waves?

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Electroencephalography (EEG)

57
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What imaging technology involves in administering magnetic pulses to the brain through scalp that shows promise in treatment of motor disease?

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Repeat transcranial magnetic stimulation IrTMS

58
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What is a compound that acts as a neurotransmitter, a neuromodulator, or a neurohormone?

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Neuropeptides

59
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What are the 3 types of neurochemicals?

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Small molecules, neuropeptides, and gas transmitter

60
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