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Unit 3 Biological Psychology
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03/06/2012

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What part of the brain links the forebrain with the hindbrain?
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Midbrain
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What are the four parts of the hindbrain?
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Reticular Formation, Cerebellum, medulla, pons
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What part of the hindbrain controls finely coordinated movements?
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Cerebellum
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What part of the hindbrain controls breathing and heart rate?
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Medulla
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What part of the hindbrain controls sleep and links the brain to the spinal cord?
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Pons
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A cut or purposeful destruction of a specific part of the brain to learn more about the brain and behavior:
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Lesion
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Name the railroad worker whose personality dramatically changed after he suffer damage to his frontal lobe?
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Phineas Gage
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What machine records electrical activity in large portions of the brain and is used to study sleep?
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EEG
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What brain imaging machine uses X-rays to produce an image of the brain's structure?
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CT Scan
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What brain imaging machine shows how the brain functions?
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PET Scan
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What brain imaging machine uses magnets to produce an image of the brain's structure?
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MRI
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What brain imaging machine shows both the structure and function of the brain?
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fMRI
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Stage One sleep is characterized by what kind of brain waves?
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Alpha waves
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Stage Two sleep is characterized by what kind of brain waves
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Theta Waves
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Stage Four sleep is characterized by what kind of brain waves
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Delta waves
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Stage one sleep is characterized by sudden jerks called what?
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Hypnic twitches
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Stage two sleep is characterized by what kind of EEG waveforms?
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Sleep spindles
K complexes
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Deep sleep occurs during which sleep stage?
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Stage 4
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Parasomnias occur during which sleep stage?
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Stage 4
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What does REM stand for
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Rapid Eye Movement
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REM sleep is also called what?
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Active sleep
Paradoxical sleep
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This sleep disorder affects older men; they act out their dreams while asleep:
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REM Sleep disorder
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The sleep disorder is characterized by the inability to fall asleep:
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Insomnia
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This sleep disorder is characterized by suddenly falling asleep:
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Narcolepsy
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This sleep disorder is characterized by difficulty breathing while asleep:
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Sleep Apnea
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What kind of psychoactive drugs decrease the activity of the CNS?
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Depressants
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What kind of psychoactive drugs increase the activity of the CNS?
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Stimulants
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Alcohol and barbiturates are examples of what kind of psychoactive drugs?
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Depressants
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Nicotine, cocaine and caffeine are examples of what kind of psychoactive drug?
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Stimulants
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Opium, heroin and morphine are all examples of which kind of psychoactive drug?
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Opiates
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Raw information from the sense:
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Sensation
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Raw sensation given meaning in the cerebral cortex:
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Perception
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What is the conversion of a stimulus into a neural impulse called?
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Transduction
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The point at which a person becomes aware of a stimulus is called what?
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Threshold
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Minimum amount of a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time:
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Absolute threshold
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Detecting a stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli:
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Signal detection theory
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Smallest noticeable increase/decrease in the intensity of a stimulus
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Difference threshold
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What does JND stand for?
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Just noticeable difference
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What theory states the bigger or stronger the stimulus, the bigger or stronger the change has to be in order for detection to occur?
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Weber's Law
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The ability to detect a stimulus:
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Sensitivity
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Decreasing responsiveness to an unchanging stimulus:
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Adaptation
Habituation
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This is the outer most part of the eye, it bends and focuses light waves into narrow beams
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Cornea
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This is the opening of the eye that allows light into the eye:
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Pupil
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The is the muscle which opens or closes the pupil, gives your eye color:
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Iris
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The part of your eye bends and focuses light waves into narrow beams inside your eye:
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Lens
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This part of your eye contains photoreceptors and performs transduction:
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Retina
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The two kinds of photoreceptor cells found in the eye:
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Rods
Cones
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What nerves carries impulses from the eye to the brain?
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Optic Nerve
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What nerve carries auditory impulses from the ear to the brain?
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Auditory nerve
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What nerve carries smell impulses from the nose to the brain?
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Olfactory nerve
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What term refers to the difference between the two images we sense?
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Retinal disparity
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What term refers to the process of fusing two images into one?
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Binocular fusion
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The eardrum is also called:
Definition
Tympanic membrane
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What part of the ear performs auditory transduction?
Definition
Cochlea
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What kind of deafness is cause when the outer or middle ear cannot carry sound and can be helped with a hearing aid?
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Conduction deafness
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What kind of deafness is cased by inner ear damage and may be helped with a cochlear implant?
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Sensorineural deafness
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Kind of mental processing: occurs when we use our experience to form a perception from what we sense:
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Top-Down processing
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Kind of mental processing: Occurs when we pull sensations together to form a whole, new perception:
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Bottom-up processing
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Visual perceptual constancy can occur in what three ways?
Definition
Color
Shape
Size
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Depth perception can be influenced by what two kinds of depth cues?
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Monocular depth cue
Binocular Depth cues
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