Unit 3 Test Ap Psych

Your friend is taking her first psychology class. She comes to you saying, "I don't understand why we are studying the brain; I thought this was a psychology class. Because of your background in psychology, your best response should be

"Everything psychological is simultaneously biological."

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Alzheimer's disease is most closely linked to the deterioration of neurons that produce

Acetylcholine

The movement of positively charged ions across the membrane of a neuron can produce a(n)

Action potential

The brains of patients with Parkinson's disease have little dopamine. Drugs used to treat such patients bind to dopamine receptors, thereby stimulating those receptors. These drugs would be considered

Antagonist

Molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on dendrite and block that neurotransmitter w effect are called what?

Antagonists

The process o anticipating that you will be punished for misbehaving takes place in the

Association area

Neurotransmitters are released from vesicles located on knoblike terminals at the end of the

Axon

Which I the following fictional research findings is the best evidence against the idea that "our lives are determined by our experiences"?

Babies are born with personalities that are relatively stable throughout their lives.

Brittle frequents only the most expensive clubs in an effort to attract a desirable mate. According to evolutionary psychologist, brittles behavior is a product of

Behaviorism

The part of a neuron that transmits neural messages to other neurons or to muscles or glands is called the

Cell body

Which kind of psychological researcher would be most interested in the research question "Do people who lose most of their cerebral cortex in an accident still exhibit signs or consciousness?"

Cognitive neuroscience

The ability to simultaneously copy different figures with te right and left hand is most characteristic of those whose __ has been cut.

Corpus callosum

Animal research has revealed a general reward system that triggers the release of the neurotransmitter

Dopamine

Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for the neurotransmitter

Dopamine

Which cognitive neuroscience term reflects the idea thy "much of our everyday thinking, feeling, and acting operates outside our conscious awareness"?

Dual processing

Hormones are the chemical messengers of the

Endocrine system

Transferring messages from a motor neuron to a leg muscle requires the neurotransmitter known as

Endorphins

An undersupply of the major inhibitory neurotransmitter known as __ is linked to seizures.

GABA

The peripheral nervous system is to sensory neurons as the central nervous system is to

Interneurons

A synapse is a(n)

Junction b/w a sending neuron and a receiving neuron

Severing a cats reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to

Lapse into a coma

The ability to recognize faces w the right hemisphere but not with the left hemisphere best illustrates

Lateralization

Evolutionary psychology studies the evolution of behavior and the mind using principles of

Natural selection

Recent brain research contradicts previously held beliefs, indicating that new neurons are actually former in the brain. What is the process called?

Neurogenesis (forming of new neurons)

The chemical messnger released into the spatial junctions b/w neurons called

Neurotransmitters

The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain underlies the usefulness of a(n)

Pet scan

After terry lost a finger in an industrial accident, the area of his sensory cortex devoted to receiving input from that finger gradually became very responsive to sensory input from his adjacent fingers. This best illustrates

Plasticity (change)

After Kato's serious motorcycle accident l, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum. Kato is most likely to have difficulty

Playing his guitar ....(because of movement

Reuptake refers to

Reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron

The axon of a resting neuron has gates that do not allow positive sodium ions to pass through the cell membrane. What is this characteristic called?

Selective permeability

Which of the following best describes how the rain processes and controls language?

Submunitions of speech ( such as producing speech, reading aloud, and undertaking speech) are processed by different parts of the brain

Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to your digestive systems stomach muscles by the

Sympathetic nervous system

While you are hiking in the mountains, a rattlesnake slithers across your trail. Which of the following triggers the "fight-or-flight" response, increasing your heart rate and blood pressure, as you run away?

Sympathetic nervous system

Sir Charles Sherrington observed that impulses took more time to travel a neural pathway than he might have anticipated. His observation provided evidence for the existence of

Synaptic gaps

Your ability to experience the physical pleasure of a hot shower is most likely to be disrupted by damage to your

Thalamus

Researchers use dichotic listening tasks to investigate right-left differences in an intact brain.in this task a different verbal stimulus is presented simultaneously to each ear. Findings suggest that participants more quickly recall info heard by ear. This suggests that participants more quickly recall info heard by the ear. This suggests that

The left hemisphere is dominant in language processing.

The minimum level if stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse is called the

Threshold

A picture of a dog is briefly flashed in the left visual field of a split-brain patient. At the same time a picture of a boy is flashed in the right visual field. In identifying what she saw, the patient would be most likely to

Verbally report that she saw a boy.

Migraine headaches are most closely linked with an

oversupply of glutamate