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38 Cards in this Set
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Chemical substances that can block or reduce a cell's response to the action of other chemicals or neurotransmitters are called
A) agonists. |
Antagonists |
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The nerves carrying messages from the CNS to the voluntary muscles comprise the
A) sensory pathway. |
Motor pathway |
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Melissa is walking around barefoot and suddenly steps on a sharp nail. She feels the pain and immediately pulls her foot off the ground away from the nail. Which neurons were involved in her response?
A) interneurons only D) sensory, motor, and interneurons |
Sensory, motor and interneurons |
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Kim's doctor got a detailed image of her brain by using radio waves and powerful magnetic fields. Kim received a(n)
A) EEG. B) CT scan. |
MRI scan |
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The _______ is to involuntary muscles as the _______ is to voluntary muscles.
A) somatic nervous system; autonomic nervous system C) central nervous system; peripheral nervous system
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Autonomic, somatic |
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The central nervous system are what parts of the body? |
Spine & brain |
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Somatic |
Voluntary |
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Automatic Nervous System controls ______ movements |
involuntary |
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The _____ division of the autonomic nervous system is also called the fight-or-flight system. A) sympathetic |
Sympathetic |
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The neurotransmitter ______ does not go through the reuptake process. A) dopamine |
Acetylcholine |
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The right hemisphere of the brain specializes in nonverbal processing, processing of the whole, and A) the written language. |
Music and artistic processing |
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The parasympathetic division could be called the
A) stress division. |
Eat/drink/rest |
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Neurons have _____which receive input, _____ which are cell bodies, and _____ which carry the neural message to other cells.
A) dendrites; somas; axons B) axons; dendrites; somas |
Dendrites somas axons |
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The _____ is a group of several brain structures located under the cortex that are involved in learning, emotion, memory, and motivation.
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Limbic System |
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The _____ part of the spinal cord transmits messages to and from the brain. The ____ part controls lifesaving reflexes A) upper; lower |
Outer;inner |
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The ________ controls the size of the pupil.
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iris |
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If you are experiencing habituation, A) your receptor cells are no longer sending signals to your brain. |
Sensory receptors are still responding to stimuli |
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________ is the way the brain deals with unchanging information from the environment.
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Habituation |
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The linear perspective is an example of
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A monocular cue |
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What is transduction? |
The process of converting outside stimuli to neural activity |
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Which pictorial depth cue causes distant objects, such as mountains, to appear hazier than nearby objects? A) linear perspective |
Aerial perspective |
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One's tendency to perceive things in a certain way because of previous experience or expectation is called A) perceptual set. |
perceptual set |
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Many people believe that some stimuli act upon the unconscious mind and influence behavior, a process called A) habituation. |
subliminal perception |
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The image projected on the retina is A) upside down but on the same side as the visual field. B) exactly the same image that is registered by the brain.
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upside down and reversed from left to right |
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Which of the following is TRUE about rods? A) They are sensitive to changes in wavelengths. |
They are responsible for peripheral vision |
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Depth perception seems to develop A) in middle childhood. |
Early infancy |
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Procedural memories A) are not easily retrieved into conscious awareness. |
Are not easily retrieved into conscious awareness |
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It is extremely difficult to bring ______ into consciousness. A) semantic memories |
implicit |
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The information-processing model of memory suggests that
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the process of memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory in a series of three stages. |
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The storage time of a memory depends upon A) one's age. |
The system of memory being used |
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Piaget suggested that children become able to deal effectively with abstract concepts during the ________ stage. A) preoperational |
formal operations |
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When adolescents move into Piaget's final stage of formal operations, what becomes possible? A) introspection B) emotional maturity |
abstract thinking |
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Anything that can have an influence on development that does not come from within the person is known as A) nature. |
nurture |
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The ABC Model of Attitudes includes A) Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognition |
Affect, Behavior and cognition |
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Which of the following emotions about being stereotyped creates a self-fulfilling prophecy? A) anxiety about supporting the stereotype C) anger about being stereotyped |
Anxiety about supporting the stereotype |
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Which of the following memory phenomena has been supported in impression formation? A) primacy effect |
primacy effect |
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In his experiment on conformity, Asch found that
A) participants were as likely to conform with two confederates as with four. |
Conformity increased with each new confederate, up to 4 |
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The three components of attitude are _____, thoughts, and actions.
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feelings |