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OUTLINE FORMAT-Unit 3A-C, Brain/Biological Basis of Behavior
Answer questions 1 through 12. Define numbers 1 through 42.
Neural Processing and the Endocrine System
1. Biological psychologist
Neural Communication-Neurons
1. Answer this: What are neurons, and how do they transmit information? Within this answer
include the following term with their functions and their definitions. First, draw a picture of a
motor neuron, and label its parts:
1. Neurons
2. Sensory neurons
3. motor neurons
4. Interneurons
5. cell body (also know by the name of soma)
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6. dendrite (info in)
7. axon (convey info. out-“axons away”)
8. myelin sheath
include what happens when myelin sheath degenerates
9. action potential/neural impulse
10. resting potential
11. refractory period
12. excitatory signals
13. inhibitory signals
14. threshold
How Neurons Communicate
Within this answer include the following terms with their functions and their definitions.
2. Answer this: How do nerve cells communicate with other nerve cells?
15. Synapse
16. synaptic gap/synaptic cleft
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17. neurotransmitters
18. reuptake
19. all or none principle
How Neurotransmitters Influence Us
Within this answer,r include the following terms and their definitions. For numbers 20 to 25
include the function and example of malfunction:
3. Answer this: How do neurotransmitters influence behavior?
20. Acetylcholine (Ach)
21. Dopamine
22. Serotonin
23. Nor epinephrine
24. GABA
25. Glutamate
26. Endorphins
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4. How do drugs and other chemicals affect neurotransmitters?
27. Agonist
28. Antagonist
The Nervous System
Within these answers, include the following terms with their functions and their definitions:
5.What are the functions of the nervous systems main divisions:
29. Nervous system
30. Central nervous system (CNS)
31. Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
32. Nerves
6.How does our peripheral nervous system work?
33. Somatic nervous system
34. Autonomic nervous system
35. Sympathetic nervous system
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36. Parasympathetic nervous system
7. How does the Central nervous system work?
8. How does it work with pain?
37. Spinal cord
38. Reflexes
The Endocrine System
Within this answer, include the following terms with their functions and their definitions:
9. How does the endocrine system-the bodies slower information system-transmit its messages?
10. How are the endocrine system and nervous system close relatives?
11. Why is the pituitary gland the master gland?
12. What is the pituitary gland’s master?
39 a. Endocrine system
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40b. Hormones
39. Adrenal glands
40. Epinephrine (include its other name)
41. Norepinephrine (include its other name)
42. Pituitary gland
OUTLINE FORMAT-Unit 3B-Biological Basis of Behavior
Answer questions 1 through 12. Define numbers 43 through 88.
The Tools of Discovery: Having Our Heads Examined
1. What are lesions and how are they used to study the brain?
43. Lesion
2. How are the brain’s electrical activity’s recorded using the following?
44. EEG
45. CT scan
46. PET scan
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47. MRI scan
48. fMRI scan
Older Brain Structures
Include the definitions, functions, shape and locations of each of the following:
49. brainstem
50. medulla
51. reticular formation
52. thalamus
53. cerebellum “little brain”
The Limbic system:
54. limbic system
55. hippocampus
56. amygdala
3. What were the results of the 1939 study on the rhesus monkey?
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57. Hypothalamus
4. What were the results of the Olds and Milner experiments?
The Cerebral Cortex
Include the definitions, functions, shape (when noted) and locations (when applicable) of each
of the terms:
5. Answer this: What functions are served by the various cerebral cortex regions?
Structure of the Cortex:
6. Describe the “look” of the vertebral cortex.
58. Glial cells
59. Frontal lobes
60. Parietal lobes
61. Occipital lobes
62. Temporal lobes
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Functions of the Cortex:
Motor Functions:
63. Motor cortex
6. Why can the brain of wide awake patients be stimulated?
Sensory Functions:
64. Sensory cortex
7. what role does the sensory cortex play in more or less sensitive body areas, such as the lips?
65. Temporal lobe and auditory hallucinations
66. Ringing sound and people with hearing loss
Association Areas:
8. Summarize the Phineas Cage case and its implication with frontal lobe damage.
67. Association Areas
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68. Know that Parietal lobe responsible for math and spatial reasoning
Language:
69. Aphasia
70. Paul Broca’s finding
71. Broca’s area-include damage to area
72. Carl Wernicke’s discovery
73. Wernicke’s area-include damage to area
74. Angular gyrus and reading
75. Five steps to using language (p. 80-Geschwing-do not need to write or know this name)
The Brain’s Plasticity:
76. Plasticity
77. Plasticity and the blind
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78. Plasticity and the deaf
79. Plasticity and children
80. Constraint induces therapy
81. Neurogenesis
Brain lateralization:
Include the definition and significance of the concept:
82. Left hemisphere damage
Splitting the Brain:
9. What is the cause of epileptic seizures?
83. corpus callosum
84. All Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga experiment results, pps. 84-86
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85. split brain and results of split brain surgery
The Brain and Consciousness:
Cognitive Neuroscience:
86. cognitive neuroscience
Duel Processing:
87. duel processing (also provide an example)
Two Track Mind:
88. parallel processing (also provide an example).
OUTLINE FORMAT-Unit 3C-Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology,
and Behavior
Explain:
89. behavior genetic
90. Environment
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91. chromosomes
92. DNA
93. Genes
After reading the text, use YOUR OWN words to explain genome.
94. identical twins
95. fraternal twins
96. genetic relatives
97. environmental relatives
98. How are identical twins’ differences explained?
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