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Round One

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These are the bushy branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages.

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Dendrites

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This is a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.

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Action Potential

$300 Question

Chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gaps between neurons.

$300 Answer

neurotransmitters

$400 Question

This neurotransmitter regulates mood and undersupply of it is linked to depression.

$400 Answer

Serotonin

$500 Question

This neurotransmitter is our body’s natural opiates that are released in response to pain.

$500 Answer

endorphins

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This component of the nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.

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Central Nervous System (CNS)

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These are the three types of neurons.

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Motor NeuronsSensory NeuronsInterneurons

$300 Question

This branch of the peripheral nervous system is A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-C and controls heartbeat, digestion, and glandular activity

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autonomic nervous

$400 Question

This is a simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response.

$400 Answer

Reflex

$500 Question

This system will kick in if I see a

TIGER!

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SympatheticNervousSystem

$100 Question

This technique for studying the brain amplifies and records the waves of electrical activity that sweeps across the brain.

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

$200 Question

This brain structure plays an important role in controlling arousal.

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Reticular Formation

$300 Question

This brain structure directs maintenance activities and helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.

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Hypothalamus

$400 Question

These are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and their

functions.

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Frontal- Judgment /Motor Cortex Parietal- Sensory CortexOccipital- VisionTemporal- Auditory

$500 Question

This is the term for when you have an impairment of

language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage.

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Aphasia

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Because aruna dyskensia is so rare psychologist employ this method research to study it.

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Case Study

$200 Question

These are the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organisms chromosomes.

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Genome

$300 Question

A psychologist who wanted to study dating

behavior by observing how people behaved at a bar

would be using this form of research.

$300 Answer

Naturalistic Observation

$400 Question

Psychologists have found that the more TV is on in the homes of young children, the less time

they spend reading. This correlation would be in this

direction.

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This is a negative correlation

$500 Question

In an experimental procedure this technique is used to minimize the preexisting differences between

those assigned into different groups.

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Random Assignment

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These are areas of the cortex that are not

involved in primary motor or sensory

functions.

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Association Areas

$200 Question

This area of the brain controls language expression

by directing the muscle movements involved in

speech.

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Broca’s Area

$300 Question

This is the brain’s capacity for

modification, as evident in brain reorganization

following damage.

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Plasticity

$400 Question

The Left-Hemisphere specializes primarily in this:

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Language, mathematics, logic, and reason.

$500 Question

These are the four parts of the brainstem and their functions.

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1. Medulla- heartbeat/breathing2.Pons- sleeping/daydreaming3.RF- arousal/alertness4.Thalamus- sensory “switchboard”

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