AQA PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 2 EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS
CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ Central Nervous System. Answer: -Brain: consciousness, hemispheres
-Spinal Cord: passes messages from the brain, reflex actions, connects to
PNS
⩥ Peripheral Nervous System. Answer: Transmits Messages via neurons
-Autonomic: breathing heart rate stress
-Somatic: muscle and sensory neurons
⩥ Endocrine System. Answer: the body's "slow" chemical
communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the
bloodstream
Examples
-Thyroid, Thyroxine, heart rate
-Pituitary gland, regulates other glands
-adrenal, adrenaline, arousal
⩥ Adrenaline Steps. Answer: -Hypothalamus in brain activates pituitary
gland
-ANS Sympathetic state
,-Adrenaline Released for fight or flight
Immediate and Automatic
-Once threat has passed, parasympathetic nervous system returns body
to original state
⩥ Structure of a neuron. Answer: cell body
dendrites
axon (myelin sheath nodes of ranvier)
synapse
⩥ Neuron Types. Answer:
⩥ Electrical Tranmission. Answer: Action Potential, sum of the excitory
and inhibitory hormones
⩥ Synapse. Answer:
⩥ Localisation vs holistic theory. Answer: before Broca and Wernicke,
scientists supported the holistic theory of the brain that all parts were
involved in the processing of though and action. however, later scientists
argued that different parts of the brain perform different tasks and are
involved with different parts of the body. if the brain area is damaged,
the associated function will also become affected
, ⩥ Hemispheres of the brain. Answer: Right side is more Creative (deals
with art, music, holistic thought, and intuition). Left side is more
Analytical (deals with logic, language, science, and math).
⩥ Brain Localisation. Answer:
⩥ Brain Part Functions. Answer: Motor- movement
Visual- sight
Somatosensory- sensory
Auditory- analysis of sound based info
Broca's- Speech production
Wernicke's- language understanding
⩥ Localisation of brain function Evaluation. Answer: +EVIDENCE
FROM NEUROSURGERY
>OCD area of brain can be treated, showing specific area
+BRAIN SCAN EVIDENCE
>activity during tasks
COUNTER
>rats having cortexes severed could still do maze (holistic)
-LANGUAGE QUESTIONED
>not just broca and wernicke, fmri showed greater spread
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS
CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ Central Nervous System. Answer: -Brain: consciousness, hemispheres
-Spinal Cord: passes messages from the brain, reflex actions, connects to
PNS
⩥ Peripheral Nervous System. Answer: Transmits Messages via neurons
-Autonomic: breathing heart rate stress
-Somatic: muscle and sensory neurons
⩥ Endocrine System. Answer: the body's "slow" chemical
communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the
bloodstream
Examples
-Thyroid, Thyroxine, heart rate
-Pituitary gland, regulates other glands
-adrenal, adrenaline, arousal
⩥ Adrenaline Steps. Answer: -Hypothalamus in brain activates pituitary
gland
-ANS Sympathetic state
,-Adrenaline Released for fight or flight
Immediate and Automatic
-Once threat has passed, parasympathetic nervous system returns body
to original state
⩥ Structure of a neuron. Answer: cell body
dendrites
axon (myelin sheath nodes of ranvier)
synapse
⩥ Neuron Types. Answer:
⩥ Electrical Tranmission. Answer: Action Potential, sum of the excitory
and inhibitory hormones
⩥ Synapse. Answer:
⩥ Localisation vs holistic theory. Answer: before Broca and Wernicke,
scientists supported the holistic theory of the brain that all parts were
involved in the processing of though and action. however, later scientists
argued that different parts of the brain perform different tasks and are
involved with different parts of the body. if the brain area is damaged,
the associated function will also become affected
, ⩥ Hemispheres of the brain. Answer: Right side is more Creative (deals
with art, music, holistic thought, and intuition). Left side is more
Analytical (deals with logic, language, science, and math).
⩥ Brain Localisation. Answer:
⩥ Brain Part Functions. Answer: Motor- movement
Visual- sight
Somatosensory- sensory
Auditory- analysis of sound based info
Broca's- Speech production
Wernicke's- language understanding
⩥ Localisation of brain function Evaluation. Answer: +EVIDENCE
FROM NEUROSURGERY
>OCD area of brain can be treated, showing specific area
+BRAIN SCAN EVIDENCE
>activity during tasks
COUNTER
>rats having cortexes severed could still do maze (holistic)
-LANGUAGE QUESTIONED
>not just broca and wernicke, fmri showed greater spread
