Unit2 Flashcards
The secretions of the pituitary glands are most directly regulated by the…
B. Hypothalamus
Our lips are more sensitive than our knees to sensations of touch due to…
B. A larger area of the sensory cortex is associated with our lips
Which if the following is the component of the limbic system that plays an essential role in the processing of new memories..
C. Hippocampus
After Kato’s serious motorcycle accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum. Kato is most likely to have difficulty…
F. Playing his guitar
Ellen volunteers during his ap psych class to try to balance a yardstick on her two fingers. While her eyes are open, she finds the task quite easy. However, when she closes her eyes, she finds the same task almost impossible. Which brain region relies on visual info in coordinating our voluntary movements?
E. cerebellum
To determine whether the strength of people’s self esteem is related to their income levels, researchers would most likely make use of…
B. Correlational research
The medulla is to the control of_______as the cerebellum is to the control of_______.
B. Breathing;walking
A brain scan of a patient looking at a photograph of a painting would most likely indicate high levels of activity in which brain structure?
D. Occipital lobes
The surgical removal of a large tumor from Danes occipital lobe resulted in extensive loss of brain tissue. Dane is most likely to suffer some loss of…
C. Visual perception
Which part of your brain receives information that you are moving your legs?
B. Motor cortex
In a distribution of test scores, which measure of central tendency would likely be the most affected by a couple of extremely high scores?
E. mean
Which lobes of the brain receive the input that enables you to feel someone scratching your back?
A. Parietal
An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements is called the…
C. Motor cortex
After he suffered a stroke, mr. santores physical coordination skills and responsiveness to sensory stimulation quickly returned to normal. Unfortunately, however, he began to experience unusual difficultly figuring out how to find his way to various locations in his neighborhood. It is most likely that mr. Santore suffered damage to his….
D. Association areas
To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate the rat’s…
D. Amygdala
Animal research has revealed a general reward system that triggers the release of the neurotransmitter…
C. Dopamine
Which brain structure receives information from all the senses except smell?
D. Thalamus
The sequence of brain regions from the evolutionarily oldest to newest is…
D. Brain stem; limbic system, cerebral cortex
When the observed difference between the means of an experimental group and control group are not likely due to chance, researches conclude that this difference is…
D. Statistically significant
In 1848, phineas gage, a railroad construction foreman, survived when an explosions drove an iron rod through his head. The once friendly,soft spoken gage became irritable and dishonest. Gage’s case provided evidence that which region of the brain plays a role in personality and behavior?
C. Frontal cortex
An under supply of the major inhibitory neurotransmitter known as________is linked to seizures.
A. Glutamate
The movement of positively charged ions across the membrane of a neuron can produce a…
A. Action potential
The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse is called the…
B. Threshold
The function of dendrites is to
A. Receive incoming signal from other neurons
The tremors of Parkinson’s disease result from the death of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter…
D. Dopamine
The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encased by a
B. Myelin sheath
Sheelah was able to jerk her hand out of the scalding water before sensing any pain because this withdrawal reflex…
D. Was activated by her self-regulating autonomic nervous system
Molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on a dendrite and block that neurotransmitter’s effects are called what?
B. Antagonists
Jose has just played a long, bruising football game but feels little fatigue or discomfort. His lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of…
D. Endorphins
The spatial junctions where impulses are chemically transmitted from one neuron to another are called
C. Synapses
To assess the effect of televised violence on aggression, researchers plan to expose one group of children to violent movie scenes and another group to nonviolent scenes. To reduce the chance that the children in one group have more aggressive personalities than those in the other group, the researchers should make use of…
A. Random assignment
An under supply of serotonin is most closely linked to…
D. Depression
The chemical messengers of the endocrine system are called…
C. Hormones
The body’s speed, electrochemical information system is called the…
D. Nervous system
An accelerated heartbeat is to a slowed heartbeat as the____nervous system is to the________ nervous system
D. Sympathetic; parasympathetic
What are the molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on a dendrite and mimic that neurotransmitters effect called?
A. Agonists
A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the…
C. Action potential
Transferring messages from a motor neuron to a leg muscle requires the neurotransmitter known as…
C. Acetylcholine
What activates state of arousal?
B. Sympathetic
What is the primary limitation of the case study research method?
D. Individual cases can be misleading and result in false generalizations
Researchers study the brains of nonhuman animals because
C. The same principles govern neural functioning in all species
A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon is called
A. Action potential
The basic building block of the nervous system is the…
D. Neuron
Which of the following does the endocrine system rely on to communicate?
B. Hormones
An individual is having trouble with cognitive tasks related to learning and memory. Which neurotransmitter is most likely to be involved with the problem?
A. Acetylcholine
Most influential of the Endocrine glands is the
Pituitary
The peripheral nervous system
E. is the part of the nervous system that does not include the brain and spinal cord
The cells most important for processing information are
A. Interneurons
Drugs that amplify neurotransmitter activity are called
D. Agonist
The nervous system is of critical importance to psychology because
A. All psychological processes depend upon it.
Phrenology is the study of
A. The bumps on the skull
Understanding people as biopsychsocial systems mean that
C. To understand people we must study how biological, psychological and sociological
Opiate drugs such as morphine are classified as
B. Agonists, because they mimic other neurotransmitters’ pain-diminishing effects
Breathing and heartbeat are controlled by the
E. medulla
Perception, thinking and language can operate at conscious, deliberate levels and also At unconscious, automatic levels. The best describes
B. Dual processing
A PET scan best allows researchers to determine
E. functions of various brain regions
Damage to the hippocampus would result in
B. Memory problems
Surgical stimulation of the sensory cortex might result in the false sensation
D. That someone is tickling you
Awareness of ourselves and our environment best describes
A. Consciousness
The link between the nervous system and the endocrine system is maintained by the
A. Hypothalamus
A researcher interested in determining the size of a particular area of the brain would be most likely to use an
C. MRI
The support cells that provide the nourishment and help the brain in numerous other ways are called
C. Glial cells
Which of the following is a task more likely to be accomplished by the right hemisphere of the brain
D. Recognizing a friend’s face
Brain plasticity refers to the
E. the ability of brain tissue to take on new functions
An individual experiences brain damage that produces a coma. Which part of the brain was probably damaged?
B. Reticular formation
