Test 2 Quiz 1

Question 1

Biological Psychology

Answer 1

A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology an behavior

Question 2

Central Nervous System (CNS)

Answer 2

The brain and the spinal cord

Question 3

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

Answer 3

The sensory and motor neurons connecting the central nervous system to the rest of the body.

Question 4

Sensory Neurons

Answer 4

Take in information through the 5 sense

Question 5

Motor Neurons

Answer 5

Output through the muscles and glands

Question 6

Interneurons

Answer 6

Neurons within the brain and the spinal cord; between sensory inputs and outputs

Question 7

Somatic Nervous System / Skeletal Nervous System

Answer 7

Peripheral nervous system division controlling the body’s skeletal muscles

Question 8

Autonomic Nervous Sytem

Answer 8

Peripheral nervous system division controlling the glands and the muscles of the internal organs

Question 9

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 9

Autonomic nervous system subdivision that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations

Question 10

Parasympathetic Nervous Sytem

Answer 10

Autonomic nervous system subdivision that calms the body, conversing its energy (The body needs to calm down)