AP psych College board Questions along with word search
What drug is used to treat seizures by preventing inhibitory neurotransmitters from returning to the presynaptic neuron, slowing the rate of neurons firing by increasing the amount of the inhibitory neurotransmitter in the synapse?
GABA reuptake inhibitor (GRI)
why are identical twins raised together likely to be just as similar and just as dissimilar to one another, as of identical twins separated at birth?
Identical twins raised apart have the capacity to be just as similar and dissimilar as twins raised together.
who's idea states that there is a part of the mind that is not directly accessible to awareness but still drives a person's thinking and behavior?
Sigmund Freud
What describes a major role of the thalamus?
It relays most sensory signals to the cortex.
A person whose body is not producing enough testosterone is most likely to exhibit what type of behavior?
fatigue
What did Carl Wernicke discover the region of the brain to be responsible for?
language comprehension
What is the parietal lobe most involved in?
processing sensory information ( 5 senses)
If a body does not have enough potassium, how might that affect neuronal firing?
The neurons will struggle to fire because there will not be enough positively charged ions to trigger the firing of the neuron.
Which conditions would produce results such as the ones Dr. Kovacs found about reading?
The first condition contains a semantically unsurprising sentence, and the second condition contains a semantically surprising sentence (strawberries cannot be nervous).
what happens when a neuron sends a signal?
The neuron goes from being negatively charged to briefly being positively charged, and finally returns to being negatively charged again. The magnitude of the negative charge is fixed regardless of the strength of the input signal it receives.
What is the difference between the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe?
The temporal lobe plays a role in object recognition, and the parietal lobe plays a role in spatial processing.
At a synapse, neurotransmitters released by the sending neuron do which of the following?
They bind to receptors at the receiving neuron, which opens ion channels.
when does an adult with a healthy sleep cycle most likely enter REM sleep?
after cycling through the NREM sleep stages
The medulla oblongata is located in what part of the brain?
brain stem, which regulates basic body functions such as respiration and blood circulation.
