Midterm 2

Question 1

Most valued on the lower end

Answer 1

Positive skew

Question 2

Most values on the higher end

Answer 2

Negative skew

Question 3

Memory formation/explicit/declarative/episodic memory

Answer 3

Hippocampus

Question 4

Hunger/thirst/endocrine processes, pituary gland

Answer 4

Hypothalamus

Question 5

Taste aversion experiment, rats biologically predisposed

Answer 5

Garcia Effect

Question 6

Extrinsic rewards decrease intrinsic interest in tasks

Answer 6

Overjustification

Question 7

Neurons stop firing because of constant stimulation

Answer 7

Sensory Adaptation

Question 8

Ignoring a stimulus, brain stops responding to it

Answer 8

Habituation

Question 9

Depolarized (+ in); neural impulse firing

Answer 9

Action Potential

Question 10

Polarized (-) not firing

Answer 10

Resting Potential

Question 11

Received messages from other neurons

Answer 11

Dendrites

Question 12

Scan: blood and oxygen flow to active parts/glucose metabolism — show function, brain activity at higher resolution than PET

Answer 12

fMRI

Question 13

Electrodes placed on brain to measure brain wave patterns and activity

Answer 13

EEG

Question 14

Inhibitory neurotransmitter, helps calm nervous activity

Answer 14

GABA

Question 15

Excitatory neurotransmitter, excess results in migraines

Answer 15

Glutamate

Question 16

Functions, memory, movement, learning, deficit causes Alzheimer’s

Answer 16

Acetylcholine

Question 17

Paradoxical sleep/rapid eye movement, dreams, rapid breathing, heart rate, brain waves — awake mode, less to more

Answer 17

REM sleep

Question 18

Hypagogic sensations

Answer 18

NREM1

Question 19

Spindles/K complexes

Answer 19

NREM 2

Question 20

Deepest sleep/night terrors

Answer 20

NREM3

Question 21

Under production causes Parkinson’s, Over production causes schizophrenia

Answer 21

Dopamine

Question 22

Lobe for seeing

Answer 22

Occipital Lobe

Question 23

Lobe for hearing

Answer 23

Temporal Lobe

Question 24

Somatosensory cortex/touch and pain

Answer 24

Parietal Lobe

Question 25

Executive functioning/planning higher level/emotional control

Answer 25

Frontal Lobes

Question 26

Study across age groups, short period of time

Answer 26

Cross-sectional study

Question 27

Study of one group over a long period of time

Answer 27

Longitudinal study

Question 28

Fight or flight released by adrenal gland

Answer 28

Norepinephrine

Question 29

Three types of cones: red, blue, and green. A color other than those three triggers a combination of those colors

Answer 29

Trichromatic theory

Question 30

Monitors balance and location and position of the head in the cochlea

Answer 30

Vestibular system

Question 31

Monitors and coordinates position of body parts sent from sensory neurons in joints and muscles

Answer 31

Kinesthetic sense

Question 32

Small nerve fibers send a pain message to the spinal cord and then to the brain. Large nerve fibers block the pain, noiceptors

Answer 32

Gate control theory of pain