Psych Midterm review (college board 2 and 3)

The medulla oblongata is a part of the

brainstem

GABA reuptake inhibitor (GRI)

A drug that is used to treat seizures Functions by preventing inhibitory neurotransmitter's from returning to the presynaptic neuron. This slows the rate of neurons firing by increasing the amount of inhibitory neurotransmitter in the synapse. The drug is most likely to be classified as a

An adult with a healthy sleep cycle is most likely to enter REM sleep

After cycling through the NREM sleep stages

Which of the following scenarios is the best example of Synesthesia

Anastasios you swirl the color when she hears music because stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to the experience of another sensation

A neuron sends a signal along it's

Axon

Which of the following examples best illustrates the concept of innerposition

Because the chair partially obscured his view of the sofa Brandon proceed the chair as being closer than the sofa

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the opponent process theory of color vision

Calyces after images of a posing colors when she stares at a poster for too long

Dr. Roman recruited 100 adults to participate in her study. The taste buds of each participant were measured and the participant stated a number of feet. She found there was a relationship between the size of a participants taste buds and the number of foods that a participant could taste what research method did Dr. Rahman use and what does she most likely studying?

Correlation and the Sensitivity of super tasters

Which hormone is released when a person is under stress

Cortisol

Kimmy stood on the sidewalk rather than crossing the street because she saw that the approaching car was quite close to her. Which of the following concepts is best illustrated in this example?

Depth perception

The psychodynamic theory of dreaming with postulate that

Dreams for sale unconscious wishes

What hormone is most associated with the fight or flight response

Epinephrine

A person whose body is not producing enough testosterone is most likely to exhibit

Fatigue

Which of the following best illustrates the most predictable effect of schemas on perception

Grant has more difficulty recognizing a penguin as a bird that he does a Bluejay

Johnny often hits his brother even though his brother does not do anything to antagonize him. Johnny's aggression is most likely due to a combination of

His genetic make up, the environment he grew up in, and the fact that aggression can be revolutionary adaptive.

Which of the following best describes a major role of the thalamus

It relays most sensory signals to the cortex

Madeline has previously been diagnosed with major depressive disorder. She has an identical twin sister, Josephine, and a non-identical sister, Abigail neither of Madeline sisters had previously been diagnosed with major depressive disorder. Which of the following statements is true of Madeline sisters?

Josephine is more likely to be diagnosed with a major depressive disorder than Abigail and respond to a stressful or Traumatic event

Carl Wernickle discovered the region of the brain that is responsible for

Language composition

Ruth and Debbie are identical twins were raised by the same family friends and Frankie are identical twins who were separated at birth and raised by different families according to research on the Heritability of personality traits route and Debbie's personalities are statistically

Likely to be as similar and similar to one another as are Vinces and Frankie's personalities

Antagonists function by

Locking receptors to prevent other neurotransmitters from binding to the neural receptors

The fatty casing that help speed up the neural transmission of a neuron is called the

Myelin sheath

Helena did not recognize her English teacher when she unexpectedly saw him while traveling in Paris even though she knew him well back in the classroom. The fact that Helena can recognize her teacher back home more easily been in Paris best demonstrates what concept

Perceptual set

In a study on taste what would researchers need to test participants ability to distinguish umami from similar Sensations?

Plays disc soaked an MSG on the participants tongues. Then replace those desks with the desk that have been soaked in water. Compare the participants reactions.

Human tactile sense is actually a mix of which of the following distinct senses

Pressure,warmth, cold,pain

The Parietal lobe is most involved in

Processing sensory information

Which of the following is the correct order of the eye to brain pathway of vision

Retina, optic nerve, thalamus, occipital lobe

Which of the following anatomical structures is involved In the vestibular sense

Semi circular canals

Which of the following is the process of detecting environmental stimuli and converting them into signals that can be detected by the nervous system?

Sensation

Which of the following concepts refers to the diminished sensitivity to a stimulus that occurs due to constant exposure to that stimulus?

Sensory adaptation

Marlene had an infection that led to deafness and her left ear. Which of the following will be the most likely impact of her losing hearing in her left ear

She will have trouble locating the source of sounds

The idea that there is a part of the mind that it's not directly accesibles to awareness but still drives a person is thinking and behavior is most Directly attributable to

Sigmund Freud

Waking up frequently loud snoring silent pauses in breathing and sleepiness during the day or symptoms of

Sleep apnea

Denise has damaged her auditory nerve and now has difficulty understanding what people are saying which of the following descriptions explains how that damage and pears are hearing?

Sounds messages failed to be transmitted directly to the brain

What happens when the connection between the right visual cortex and language center have been severed?

Split brain patients I'm not able to retrieve the name of object seen in the left visual field

Michael Gazzaniga is best known for

Studying split brain patients

Tracy was in pain from an ear infection, which her doctor said was in her inner ear. Which of the following is most likely location of the infection?

The Cochlea

Oreville Is talking with his friends on a cafeteria table when suddenly he is distracted by hearing his name at Memering table. Oreveille shift of attention most clearly illustrates what psychological concepts

The cocktail party phenomenon

Absolute threshold

The lowest strength of a stimulus that a person can detect 50% of the time

Which of the following describes what happens when a neuron sends a signal?

The neuron goes from being negatively charged to briefly being positively charged and finally returns to be negatively charged again the magnitude of the negative charge is fixed regardless of the strength of the input. Neurons are negatively charged at rest.

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 study would allow the researcher to Testa sensation of taste as people age and what is the likely outcome

The research and follows the same group of people over the course of 40 years. The researcher also measure the number of people's taste buds throughout the 40 years. The research and find it as people grow older their Sense of taste diminishes and their number of taste buds decreases

According to the gate control theory of pain which of the following contains a neurological gate that controls the transmission of pain messages to the brain

The spinal cord

At a synapse neurotransmitters released by the sending neuron through which of the following?

They bind receptors at the receiving neuron which opens ions channels

Agonists Effects

They increase the likelihood that a postsynaptic neuron will fire

The phenomenon of declining say go physiological effects of taking a drug after sustained use is referred to as

Tolerance

Brian perceive the duck instead of other animals when viewing and ambiguous image because he watched a documentary about that the previous night which of the following best explains my brain perceives the duck?

Top down processing because his perception of the duck was influenced by past experience