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The most striking impairment suffered by Henry Molaison (patient H.M.) was a. prosopagnosia. b. anterograde amnesia. c. retrograde amnesia. d. episodic amnesia. - Answer b Patient K.C. a. could acquire new episodic knowledge with careful training. b. could not access memories of his own past. c. could not acquire new semantic knowledge, even with careful training. d. suffered damage to the dorsolateral thalamus. - Answer b Episodic memory concerns a. general knowledge....

From Figure 1.8, list some endocrine glands in the body. - Answer Hypothalamus= control or hormone secretion. Pineal gland= reproductive maturation; body rhythms. Pituitary gland: anterior= hormone secretion by thyroid, adrenal cortex, and gonads, growth. Posterior= water balance; salt balance. Thyroid= growth and development; metabolic rate. Adrenal glands: adrenal cortex= salt and carbohydrate metabolism; inflammatory reactions. Adrenal medulla= emotional arousal (epinephrine). Panc...

Central Nervous System - Answer Brain and Spinal Cord Peripheral Nervous System - Answer All other nerves in body besides brain and spinal cord Autonomic Nervous System - Answer Internal organs, everything in body that is automatic Somatic Nervous System - Answer Skeletal muscle voluntary Sympathetic Nervous System - Answer Activates fight or flight response Parasympathetic Nervous System - Answer Slows down fight or flight response, relaxes ...

What part of a neuron contains the organelles responsible for basic metabolic processes of the cell? - Answer Cell body/ Soma (Mitochondria) Name the part of the neuron where the cell receives synaptic signals from other neurons? - Answer Dendrite Which part of the neuron is responsible for transmitting signals away from the soma and toward another cell? - Answer Axon At a synapse, what do we call the neuron that is sending the signal, and what do we call the neuron th...

Hippocampus - Answer Memory Amygdala - Answer Emotion Why study Brain and Behavior? - Answer How the brain produces both behavior and human consciousness are major unanswered scientific questions A question of the relationship between physics and psychology Chambers "hard problem" - Answer Given a universe f matter and energy, why is there such a thing as consciousness? Biological Psychology - Answer The study of physiological, evolutionary and de...

Heritability - Answer the amount of variation in a characteristic that is due to genes Sex-Linked Gene - Answer gene that is present on a sex chromosome (i.e. color blindness) Sex-Limited Gene - Answer gene that can be present on both sex chromosome, but it only is expressed on one DNA - Answer double stranded helix with 4 base pairings that is made up of genes Chromosome - Answer threadlike structure that is made up of DNA Transcription - Answer ...

Where is motor cortex? - Answer Frontal lobe What does the Brainstem consist of? - Answer medulla, pons, midbrain Function of the medulla - Answer Controls vital reflexes/bottom of BS Function of pons - Answer - Involved in Sleep/REM sleep -Major source of Nor-epinephrine Function of the midbrain - Answer - Reflexive orienting to visual and auditory stimuli -Intrinsic/descending pain control - 2 major sources of dopamine (substantia Nigra and VTA) ...

acute physical stressors - Answer short term events that usually are not affiliated with long term stress ex: a lion, an audition, a speeding ticket chronic physical stressors - Answer emotional pressures that one has suffered for a long time that they feel they have no control over ex: drought, famine, parasites psychological, social stressors - Answer pressures that stem from emotional stress on one's relationships and close ties ex: career, traffic, mort...

Define Circadian Rhythem - Answer Rhythms that last ~24 hours Examples of Circadian Rhythem - Answer -Body temperature -Hormone levels (melatonin, etc) -Sensitivity to drugs -Sleep/Wake Define Zeitgeber - Answer "time-giver" Example of Zeitgeber - Answer light Define entrain - Answer Process of synchronizing a biological rhythm to an environmental stimulus Define Free-run - Answer Without cues about the time of day What is the retino...

Where do sensation and perception occur? - Answer Sensation - sensory organ Perception - the brain What is the law of specific nerve energies? - Answer Each sensory receptor is designed to respond to a specific band of energy What is the retinal circuitry? - Answer Receptors -> (Horizontal cell) -> Bipolar cell -> (Amacrine cell) -> Ganglion cell Acuity-Sensitivity Tradeoff - Answer Acuity - clearest image in fovea Sensitivity - periphery motion (ca...