things you got wrong on the midterms Flashcards
what was the variable, in Emily Balancetis ted talk, that influenced distance estimations
level of motivation
what is a knockout
a technique used to influence behaviour
which is rest and digest
parasympathetic
para is four letter and rest is four letters
which is fight or flight
sympathetic
what are the functional divisions?
primary
motot
sensroy
association cortex
the lobes of the cerebral cortex
parietal lobe
frontal lobe
occipital lobe
temporal lobe
evidence of neuron growth - Elizabeth Gould found what?
elizabeth Gould and other found:
- found more natural environments helped neurogenesis, encourages neuron growth then poorer conditions/ stressful environments
who is responsible for demonstrating neurogenesis in humans
Fred “Rusty” Gage
- injected a substance called BrdU into people \
- BrdU is incorporated into dividing cells so they can be tracked
- BrdU can be used to track how aggressive a tumor is by using it to watch its growth rate
- after patients injected with BrdU died, Rusty opened up their brain to find new neurons in the hippocampus
- turns out same part of the hippocampus that rats and monkeys had most neuron growth as well
what is psychophysics?
the study of how people perceive physical stimuli
why does locked-in syndrome happen?
usually, damage to the pons
when you turn off the light show long do photosins in cones and rods take?
cones - 5min
rods - 30min
dichromates have a deficiency in which cones?
medium wavelength
