PSY Exam #2

Question 1

Nueron

Answer 1

A nerve cell, the basic building block of the nervous system

Question 2

Cell Body

Answer 2

Life support CENTER of the cell body

Question 3

Dendrites

Answer 3

RECEIVE messages from other cells

Question 4

Axon

Answer 4

PASSES messages away from cell body

Question 5

Terminal Branches

Answer 5

FORM junctions with other cells

Question 6

Resting Potential

Answer 6

Waiting to fire

Question 7

Action Potential

Answer 7

Brief electrical charge when the neuron fires down the axon

Question 8

Synapse

Answer 8

Meeting point between two different neurons

Question 9

Neurotransmitters

Answer 9

chemical messengers that bind to the receptor site causing it to go into action potential

Question 10

Reuptake

Answer 10

Neurotransmitters in the synapse are reabsorbed into the sending neurons

Question 11

Central Nervous System contains what?

Answer 11

Brain and Spinal

Question 12

Peripheral Nervous System contains what?

Answer 12

Everything else (Not Brain/Spinal)

Question 13

Autonomic

Answer 13

Involuntary; self regulated (breathe, blink)

Question 14

Somatic

Answer 14

Voluntary; skeletal movements

Question 15

Sympathetic

Answer 15

Short term arousal, alert, fear (Reaction to tiger in pine grove)

Question 16

Parasympathetic

Answer 16

Calming, body returning to normal

Question 17

Reflex

Answer 17

Involuntary, signal doesn’t need brains permission to react

Question 18

Endocrine System

Answer 18

Slower communication through hormones

Question 19

Lesion

Answer 19

A scan that experimentally destroys brain tissue to study animal behaviors after destruction

Question 20

EEG

Answer 20

A scan that is an amplified recording of the electrical waves in the brain, measured by electrodes

Question 21

PET

Answer 21

A scan that is a visual display of the brain’s activity while doing a task by using a radioactive form of glucose

Question 22

MRI

Answer 22

A scan that uses magnetic and radio waves to produce computer generated images which distinguish different brain tissue

Question 23

Medulla

Answer 23

Bottom most part of the brain that controls breathing and other automatic functions

Question 24

Thalamus

Answer 24

Part of the brain that controls all of the senses other than smell

Question 25

Reticular Formation

Answer 25

Part of the brain that deals with arousal and other mood related functions

Question 26

Cerebellum

Answer 26

"Little brain" that deals with the body's movement/balance, memory, and processing of sensory information

Question 27

Limbic Systems

Answer 27

Tied with fear and aggression. Also has drives for food and sex

Question 28

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 28

Ultimate control and processing system which is supported by glial cells for energy

Question 29

Parietal Lobe

Answer 29

Controls touch and incoming messages (Top, middle of the brain)

Question 30

Temporal Lobe

Answer 30

Controls auditory and complex vision (Bottom, middle by ears)

Question 31

Occipital Lobe

Answer 31

Controls vision (Back of the brain)

Question 32

Frontal Lobe

Answer 32

Controls thinking, learning, and personality (Front part of the brain)

Question 33

Plasticity

Answer 33

Our brain has the ability to change. During childhood development, experiences, and damage

Question 34

Corpus Callosum

Answer 34

Works with the two parts of our brain

Question 35

Left Brain

Answer 35

Language processing

Question 36

Right Brain

Answer 36

Senses, intake of information

Question 37

Consciousness

Answer 37

awareness of ourselves and the environent

Question 38

Spontaneous (State of Consciousness

Answer 38

day dreaming, drowsiness, and dreaming

Question 39

Physiologically Induced (State of Consciousness)

Answer 39

Hallucinations, Orgasm, Starvation

Question 40

Psychologically Induced (State of Consciousness)

Answer 40

Sensory Deprivation, hypnosis, meditation

Question 41

Dual Processing

Answer 41

Simultaneously Processing information on both conscious and unconscious tracks

Question 41

Dual Processing

Answer 41

Simultaneously Processing information on both conscious and unconscious tracks

Question 42

System 1

Answer 42

Evolutionarily older, automatic, unconscious, affective, experiential

Question 43

System 2

Answer 43

Evolutionarily recent, human specific, explicit, conscious, rule based

Question 44

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 44

If we aren't paying attention to something we won't see it

Question 45

Myelin Sheath

Answer 45

The fatty cells that surround axons that enhance the rate the electrical signal travels

Question 46

Default Reaction

Answer 46

We go on autopilot but we are able to override

Question 47

Bottom-up processing

Answer 47

starts at your sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing. (boiling pot example)

Question 48

Top down processing

Answer 48

constructs perceptions from this sensory input by drawing on your experience and expectations (Meeting someone after rumors)