Biological Psychology Exam 1 questions With Correct Answers

Biological Psychology Exam 1 questions
With Correct Answers

Biological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Behavioral neuroscience.
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The study of the biological base of psychological processes and behavior
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Neuroscience - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of the nervous system
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Neuron - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Nerve cell, basic unit of the nervous
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system. Composed of cell body, receptive extensions (dendrites), and a
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transmitting extension (axon) | |




Somatic Intervention - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An approach to finding
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relations between body variables and behavior variables that involves
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manipulating body structure or function and looking for resultant
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changes in behavior
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Independent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The behavior that is
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manipulated


Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The factor that is
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measured, dependent on independent variable
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,Behavioral Intervention - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An approach to finding
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|relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves
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intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant
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changes in body structure or functions
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Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The covariation of two measures
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Neuroplasticity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The ability of the nervous
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system to change in response to experience or the environment
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Reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The scientific process of breaking
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a system down into increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it.
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Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Notion promoted by Rene Descartes
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that the mind is subject to only spiritual interactions while the body is
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subject to only material interactions
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Phrenology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The belief that bumps on the skull
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reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral
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faculties


Neuron Doctrine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The hypothesis that the brain
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is composed of separate cells that are distinct structurally, metabolically,
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,|and functionally. Synapses between neurons. Ramon y Cajal's theory
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led to this
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Synapse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The gap between neurons, where
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information is passed from one to the other | | | | | | |




Glial Cells - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Neuroglia, no neuronal brain cells
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that provide structural, nutritional, and other types of support to the
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brain. Three types Astrocytes, microglia, oligodendricytes
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Mitochondria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cellular organelle that provides
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energy for the cells processes
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Cell Nucleus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The center of the cell that
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contains the chromosomes | |




Ribosomes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Structures in the cell body where
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genetic information is translated to produce proteins
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Endoplasmic reticulum - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-network of tubes that
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transports molecules |




Dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Receptive surface of neuron
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, Input zone - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Part of the neuron the receives
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information, usually corresponds with dendrites | | | |




Cell Body, Soma - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Region of neuron that is the
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nucleus


Integration Zone - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Part of the Neuron that
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initiates electrical cell activity, usually corresponds to axon hillock.
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Determines whether or not an AP is fired| | | | | | |




Axon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A single extension from the nerve cell
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that carries nerve impulses from the cell body to other neurons
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Conduction Zone - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The part of the neuron over
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which the nerve's electrical signal my be actively propagated, usually
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corresponds to cell's axon | | |




Axon Terminal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The end of an axon, forms a
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synapse with another neuron or another target cell
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Output Zone - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The part of a neuron, usually
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corresponding with the axon terminals, at which the cell sends
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information to another cell | | |