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When the digestive system contains food, where is extra glucose taken for short-term deposition? - Answer Liver When the digestive system contains food, where is extra glucose taken for long-term reservation? - Answer Triglycerides (production of adipose tissue) When the digestive system contains food, after recent ingestion, where is glucose used up as energy? - Answer Muscles and rest of body When the digestive system contains food, where are fat molecules deposited for long-...

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What part of neurons contains the nucleus? - Answer Cell body (soma) What nervous system includes all nerves other than the brain and spinal cord and sends electrical signals to/from the brain? - Answer Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) What part of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord? - Answer Central Nervous System (CNS) Identify the 4 major parts of a neuron. - Answer Dendrites Cell body (soma) Axon Terminal Buttons What part of neurons transfer inf...

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Resting Membrane Potential (RMP) - Answer the charge difference across the plasma membrane; -70mV (the - value means there are more - charged part. inside the memo. than out) Step One in Neural communication - Answer going from resting membrane potential to an action potential 4 Parts of a Neuron - Answer 1. Axon 2. Dendrites 3. Terminal buttons 4. Cell body Diffusion - Answer molecules diffuse from regions of high concentration to low concentration Electrostatic press...

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Exam 1 - Answer According to Life History Theory, why should life expectancy influence homicide rates? 1. Life expectancy is a cue to the degree to which someone else will likely murder you. 2. Life expectancy shifts the degree to which a person discounts the future. - Answer 1. Evolutionary psychology aims to tell people why they behave the way they do, as well as what is morally good behavior. True or False? - Answer False In the "Strange situation," a child w...

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Define Evolution: - Answer -Evolution refers to a change in a species that occurs over time, and specifically a change in gene frequencies What are the three premises of Natural selection? - Answer 1. Over-reproduction within a species: not all survive and some over reproduce. 2. Variation exists within a species, and some variants are "more fit" than others: variation on any phenotype or genotype; variation may make some species more fit to their environment, which allows th...

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Your nervous system has _________________ neurons - Answer 100 billion The brain is only _____ of your overall biomass and consumes _______ of your metabolic resources - Answer 2%, 20% The ability to go places under your own power and control - Answer motility Organisms that can find all the resources they need without going anywhere do or don't waste energy on the brain or the nervous system? - Answer DO NOT What did Plato believe about the soul and the mind? - Answer...

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Which of the following is NOT a type of release forms of vesicles? - Answer Reuse and recycle Which of these is the most common release forms of vesicles? - Answer Kiss and Stay The autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis, Attacks ACH receptors causing muscles to weaken and become less responsive but drugs help alleviate symptoms by... - Answer Inhibiting the activity of acetylcholinerase The intensity of a stimulus is NOT coded by: - Answer The intensity of the action potenti...

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behavioral neuroscience - Answer the study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior other terms for behavioral neuroscience - Answer physiological psychology, biological psychology (biopsychology), brain and behavior at least ______ people currently suffer from a neurological or psychiatric illness - Answer 1 in 5 Ancient Egyptians, Indians, and Chinese though the _____ was the center of thoughts and emotions - Answer heart ___________ believed the ...

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The nervous system is a computational instrument that detects and analyzes environmental stimuli in order to ____________________ of the organism that possesses it - Answer guide the behavior __________________ detects and analyzes environmental stimuli. - Answer Specialized Sensory Systems Specialized Sensory system come in the form of _____________ and ______________ - Answer specific forms of energy (light, sound waves) and particular chemicals (odors, tastes) Animals have s...

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T/F QUESTIONS: reinforcing stimuli increase serotonin levels in the brain - Answer false Patient H.M. was able to recall childhood events that occurred prior to the surgery - Answer True Patient H.M. was able to consolidate information from short-term memory to long-term memory using rehearsal - Answer false the medial amygdaloid nucleus is important for the expression of emotional responses to aversive stimuli - Answer false Declarative memory employs the medial tempora...

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T/F QUESTIONS: reinforcing stimuli increase serotonin levels in the brain - Answer false Patient H.M. was able to recall childhood events that occurred prior to the surgery - Answer True Patient H.M. was able to consolidate information from short-term memory to long-term memory using rehearsal - Answer false the medial amygdaloid nucleus is important for the expression of emotional responses to aversive stimuli - Answer false Declarative memory employs the medial tempora...

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what is personality psychology? - Answer psychological forces that make people uniquly themselves: what it means to be a person what are the 8 different perspectives of personality theories? - Answer 1. unconscious 2. ego 3. biological being 4. cognitive dimension 5. collection of traits 6. conditioned/shaped by env 7. interaction b/w person and env 8. spiritual dimension what is scientific inference? - Answer using systematically gathered evidence to test theories- yield i...

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When layperson use the term ~personality~, they generally refer to _______________, whereas when personality psychologists use the term, they generally refer to ___________________. A. generic ideas about things everyone has in common; specific traits of particular people B. specific traits of particular people; concrete concepts about personality C. concrete concepts about personality; specific traits of particular people D. specific traits of particular people; abstract concepts ab...

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cognitive miser - Answer * we use mental shortcuts to allow us to make decisions and judgments using only the minimum mental work necessary * there are limitations to our mental resources/abilities * too much info in everyday environments, can't attend to all of it introspective access - Answer ability to direct attention to/observe/examine your mental state (conscious thoughts/feelings) conditions where errors are unavoidable due to the cognitive system's architecture - Ans...

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prosocial behavior - Answer an action intended to benefit another (even when the helper benefits too) pure (true) altruism - Answer action intended solely to benefit another; without regard for external or internal rewards for the helper (rewards are not cause of decision to help) goals of prosocial behavior - Answer improving our own basic welfare (gaining genetic and material benefits), increasing social status & approval, managing self-image, managing our mood & emotions inc...

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carrier-mediated transport - Answer protein-based transport showing specificity, competition, and saturation specificity - Answer transporter binds only one specific substrate competition - Answer similar molecules compete for same transporter saturation - Answer transport maximum reached when all carriers are occupied exocytosis - Answer vesicles release contents out of the cell endocytosis - Answer vesicles bring material into the cell clathrin - Answer p...

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Week 1: History - Answer "Ancient World" Plato: known as... - Answer -he was an ancient greek philosopher whose ideas remain influential -born in 5th century BC -until the scientific revolution, western scholars relied on such ancient scholars for the scientific method "Ancient World" Plato: Triune Soul [Mind] - Answer -plato used a horse-drawn chariot as a metaphor to explain his 3-part model of the mind/soul reason: charioteer - located in the head passi...

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which of the following statements is correct: A: ON cells are better in detection of rapid decrease in illumination B: OFF cells are better in detection of rapid increase in illumination C: ON cells decrease their rate of fire when light stimulates the surround, but not the center D: OFF cells decrease their rate of fire when light stimulates the surround, but not the center E: none of the above - Answer C: ON cells decrease their rate of fire when light stimulates the surround, but not ...

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PSYC/NRSC 235 Exam 1 (TAMU, Smith), Exam Questions and answers, VERIFIED/ behavioral neuroscience - -the study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior other terms for behavioral neuroscience - -physiological psychology, biological psychology (biopsychology), brain and behavior at least ______ people currently suffer from a neurological or psychiatric illness - -1 in 5 Ancient Egyptians, Indians, and Chinese though the _____ was the center of thoughts and emoti...

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