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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
Q

What is Neuropsychology?

A

Study of the brain’s influence on behavior

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2
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What is Trephination?

A

When they drill a hole in your head

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3
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What is the localization theory?

A

Idea that different parts of your brain do different things

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4
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Which dude read bumps on your head to predict your personality?

A

Franz Gall

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5
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What is the Broca’s area involved with?

A

Expressive/fluent speech

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6
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What happens when you damage Wernicke’s Area?

A

It makes a word salad

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7
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What is the Theory of Equipotentiality?

A

The brain all works together

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8
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What is the Comprehensive Theory?

A

That the brain is the interplay of both the localization and Equipotentiality theory

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9
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What connects the Left and Right Hemisphere?

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The Corpus Callosum

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10
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What do the sulci and gyri do?

A

Maximize the surface area of the brain

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11
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Which lobe helps control relationships, planning, emotions, speech, and movement?

A

Frontal

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12
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Which lobe interprets sensory signals and integrates information?

A

Parietal

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13
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Which lobe of the brain processes sound, controls aspects of learning, memory, language, and emotions?

A

Temporal

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14
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Which lobe of the brain processes visual signals?

A

Occipital

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15
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Which side of the brain uses logic, is detail oriented, and is in charge of words and language?

A

The Left Brain

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16
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Which side of the brain uses feeling, is “Big Picture” oriented, and uses imagination?

A

The Right Brain

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17
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Generally, who is better at language?

A

Women

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18
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Generally, who is better at spatial rotations and perception?

A

Men

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19
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What is Transduction?

A

The translation of one form of energy to another

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20
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What are the two sensory fields of the Cortex?

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Primary and Secondary

21
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What does the Primary Area of the cortex do?

A

Pick up the basics, like lines and color

22
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What does the Secondary Area of the Cortex do?

A

Puts the picture together and makes sense of it

23
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What are the two parts of the Visual system?

A

Rods and Cones

24
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Which parts of the Visual System is more numerous?

A

Rods

25
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Which part of the Visual System is sensitive in low light?

A

Rods

26
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Which part of the Visual System is used for Bright Light?

A

Cones

27
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In the Auditory System, sound waves are received by what?

A

Hair Cells

28
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What are the Three Somatosensory System Receptors?

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Exteroceptive, Proprioceptive, and Interoceptive

29
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Where are the Exteroceptives located?

A

On you skin

30
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What are the Three Exteroceptives?

A
  1. Mechanical (Touch)
  2. Thermoreceptors (Temperature)
  3. Nocioreceptors (Pain/Pressure)
31
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Where are proprioceptives?

A

In the Joints

32
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What doe Proprioceptives do?

A

Tell you where your body is in space

33
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What does Interoceptives do?

A

Tells you your body’s internal state

34
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What does sensation do?

A

Make sense of the information coming

35
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What is Synesthesia?

A

People who hear in color and identify smells by sound

36
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What are the two broad categories of Sensory Distortions?

A
  1. Complete loss of sensory process

2. Partial loss of some sensory process

37
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Deafness, Blindness, and Colorblindness are examples of what?

A

Complete loss of sensory process

38
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Agnosias (Without Knowledge) is an example of?

A

Partial Loss of some sensory process

39
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What controls motor functioning?

A

The Cerebral Cortex

40
Q

Which part of the brain is important for posture and balance?

A

The Cerebellum

41
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What does the Cerebellum integrate?

A

Motor and sensory information

42
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What does Akinesia mean?

A

Without movement

43
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What does Bradykinesia mean?

A

Slowness of Movement

44
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What does Hyperkinesia mean?

A

Extra Movement

45
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What is Apraxia?

A

Inability to perform skilled, purposeful movement

46
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What is Limb-Kinetic Apraxia?

A

Clumsiness with the body

47
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What is Ideomotor Apraxia?

A

When the knows the action but they can’t quite do it

48
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What is Conceptual Apraxia?

A

When you lose the concept of how to do something

49
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What is Dissociation Apraxia?

A

When the you have the general idea of what’s happening but cannot put it in sequence

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