Biopsychology Quiz Questions With Correct Answers

Biopsychology Quiz Questions With
Correct Answers

Central Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Portion of the nervous
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system consisting of the brain and the spinal cord
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Spinal Reflexes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Automatic behaviors produced
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by the spinal cord without brain involvement
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Spinal Cord - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A collection of neurons and
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supporting tissue running from the base of the brain down the center of
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the back, protected by a column of bones
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Peripheral Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-All portions of the
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nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord; it includes sensory
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and motor nerves
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Somatic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The subdivision of the
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peripheral nervous system that connects to sensory receptors and to
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skeletal muscles; sometimes called the skeletal nervous system
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, Autonomic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The subdivision of
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the peripheral nervous system that regulates internal organs and glands
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Sympathetic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the subdivision of
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|the autonomic nervous sytem that mobilizes bodily resources and
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increases the output of energy during emotion and stress
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Parasympathetic Nervous System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the | | | | | |



subdivision of the autonomic nervous system that operates during
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relaxed states and that conserves energy
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Neurons - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a cell that conducts electrochemical
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signals; the basic unit of the nervous system; also called a nerve cell
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Glia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-cells that support, nurture, and insulate
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neurons, remove debris when neurons die, and modify neural
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functioning


Dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a neuron's branches that receive
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information from other neurons and transmit it toward the cell body
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Cell Body - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the part of the neuron that keeps it
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alive and determines whether it will fire
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