Psych10 Midterm 1

Question 1

Cerebellum

Answer 1

Controls motor functions (balance, walking, standing); Hindbrain

Question 2

Medulla

Answer 2

Coordinates heart rate, blood circulation, and respiration; life sustaining functions; Hindbrain

Question 3

Reticular Formation

Answer 3

Regulates sleep, wakefulness, and arousal; Hindbrain

Question 4

Pons

Answer 4

Relays information from the cerebellum to the rest of the brain; Hindbrain

Question 5

Tegmentum

Answer 5

Orients in response to stimuli, if something falls you turn; Midbrain

Question 6

Thalamus

Answer 6

Filters and transmits information from senses (except for smell) to cortex; Forebrain

Question 7

Hypothalamus

Answer 7

Regulates the four F’s, Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, and Fornicating; Forebrain

Question 8

Amygdala

Answer 8

Emotional processing center; Forebrain

Question 9

Hippocampus

Answer 9

Critical for creating and integrating NEW memories; Forebrain

Question 10

Frontal Lobe

Answer 10

Specialized areas for movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory, and judgment

Question 11

Temporal Lobe

Answer 11

Responsible for hearing and language

Question 12

Occipital Lobe

Answer 12

Processes visual information

Question 13

Parietal Lobe

Answer 13

Processes information about touch

Question 14

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 14

The outermost layer of the brain, visible to the naked eye and divided into two hemispheres

Question 15

Somatosensory Cortex

Question 16

Motor Cortex

Answer 16

Coordinates movements across the joints and muscle groups

Question 17

Brocas Area

Answer 17

Area of the brain responsible for language/speech PRODUCTION; located where frontal lobe meets temporal lobe

Question 18

Brocas Aphasia

Answer 18

Difficulty in producing words/grammar structures

Question 19

Wernickes Area

Answer 19

Area of the brain responsible for language/speech COMPREHENSION; located between pariatal and temporal lobes

Question 20

Wernickes Aphasia

Answer 20

Difficulty in producing coherent sentences, says words that don’t make sense together; word salad; can’t understand written or signed language; No problem producing words

Question 21

Aphasia

Answer 21

Loss of speech

Question 22

Neuron

Answer 22

A cell that specializes in receiving and transmitting information

Question 23

Cell Body

Answer 23

Coordinates information processing tasks and keeps cell alive

Question 24

Dendrites

Answer 24

Receive information from other neurons and relay it to the cell body

Question 25

Axon

Question 26

Synapse

Question 27

Myelin Sheath

Question 28

Action Potentials

Question 29

Depolarization

Question 30

Repolarization

Question 31

Synaptic Cleft

Question 32

Neurotransmitters

Question 33

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Answer 33

Uses a powerful magnetic field to produce high quality images of the brain and its structure

Question 34

fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Answer 34

Used to examine ongoing brain activity by measuring blood oxygen levels; Good at determining location but not good for timing

Question 35

EEG (Electroencephalography)

Answer 35

Can record electrical activity from large populations of simultaneously active neurons on the scalp; very direct; poor spatial resolution; cheaper than an MRI

Question 36

Sensation

Question 37

Perception

Question 38

Psychophysics

Question 39

Absolute Threshold

Question 40

Just noticeable difference

Question 41

Top-down processing

Question 42

Bottom-up processing

Question 43

Signal Detection Theory

Question 44

Sensory Adaptation

Question 45

Selective Attention

Question 46

Inattentional Blindness

Question 47

Change Blindness

Question 48

Observer Bias

Question 49

Double-blind study

Question 50

Population

Question 51

Sample

Question 52

Variables

Question 53

Correlation

Question 54

Manipulation

Question 55

Independent Variable

Question 56

Dependent Variable

Question 57

Self-selection

Question 58

Random Assignment

Question 59

Random Sampling

Question 60

Replication

Question 61

Informed Consent

Question 62

Demand Characteristics

Question 63

Subcortical Structures