Unit Quiz 1.3-1.4 Flashcards
Parietal lobe
Top: sensory information (touch and body position)
NT: Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion (I JUST WANNA BE PART OF YOUR SYMPHONY)
Dopamine
NT: Inhibitory transmitter (calm meditating dog)
GABA
Records magnetic fields from the brain’s natural electrical currents
MEG
Tracks radioactive glucose as it moves through the brain
PET (PET like waking the glucose)
Biopsychosocial approach
Combining biological, psychological, and social aspects into analyzing behavior
Axon
Passes messages to other neurons, muscles, and glands
Good at inferences and perceptual tasts
Right half
Neurogenesis
Formation of new neurons
NT: Pain perception and immune response (sick dog)
Substance P
NT: Enables muscle action, learning, and memory (Nerd cat)
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Midbrain
Auditory and visual
Myelin sheath
Insulates and keeps the impulses quick
X-rays of the head that generate images to try and locate damage
CT
Depressant drugs
Calm neural activity; alcohol, barbiturates, and opioids
Hallucinogenic drugs
Distort perceptions; LSD, and marijuana
Frontal lobe damage
No moral compass, personality changes
Cell body
Life support center
NT: Perception of pain and pleasure (Moo Deng)
Endorphins
Electrodes placed on scalp to measure electrical activity
EEG
Forebrain
Complex cognition
NT: Inhibitory, memory (i forgot my name roblox)
Glutamate
NT: Helps control alertness and arousal (WRIO)
Norepinephrine
NT: Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal (Akaashi)
Serotonin
Good at verbal and calculations
Left half
Magnetic fields and radio waves provide a map of the brain; static structure
MRI
Hindbrain
Survival functions
Stimulant drugs
Excite neural activity; nicotine, cocaine, and ecstasy
Occipital lobe
Back: visual information
Measures blood flow; dynamic brain structure
fMRI
Corpus callosum
Band of nerves that connect the two brain hemispheres
Temporal lobe
Temples/sides: auditory information
Dendrites
Receive messages from other cells
Axon terminals
The end of the neuron, sends the information
Frontal lobe
Front: language and higher order thinking