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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

BIOLOGICAL BASES EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Wernicke's Area

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Left temporal lobe that plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences

Question 2: Somatic Nervous System

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subdivision of Peripheral Nervous System that includes motor nevers that innervate skeletal (voluntary) muscle

Question 3: Broca's Area

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Left frontal lobe part controls language expression

Question 4: Association Areas

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Do not have specific sensory or motor functions, but are involved in higher mental functions, such as thinking, planning, and communicating

Question 5: Corpus callosum

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broad band of nervous tissue that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres transmitting information from one side of the brain to the other

Question 6: expressive aphasia

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loss of ability to speak

Question 7: Autonomic Nervous System

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subdivision of Peripheral Nervous System that includes motor nerves that innervate smooth (involuntary) or heart muscle.

Question 8: Medulla Oblongata

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Regulates heart rhythm, blood flow, breakthing rate, digestion, vomiting

Question 9: Lesions

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precise destruction of brain tissue

Question 10: Excitatory

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Neurotransmitters cause the neuron on the other side of the synapse to generate an action potential (to fire)

Question 11: Hippocampus

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Enables formation of new long-term memories

Question 12: receptive aphasia

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loss of ability to comprehend written or spoken language

Question 13: Peripheral Nervous System

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Portion of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. It inlcudes all of the sensory and motor neurons, and subdivisions called the autonomic and somatic nervous

Question 14: Huntington's Disease

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dominant gene defect that invloves degeneration of the nervous system; symptoms involve forgetfulness, tremors, jerky motions, loss of the ability to talk, personality changes such as temper tantrums or inappropriate accusations, blindness or death

Question 15: Inhibitory

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Reducing or preventing neural impulses, (not likely to fire

Question 16: Amygdala

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Influences aggression and fear; someone scares you and your immediate reaction is to fling your arms in self defense the amygdala is at work

Question 17: Phenylketonuria (PKU)

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Results in severe, irreversible brain damage unless a baby is fed a special diet low in phenylalanine within 30 days of birth; the infant lacks an enzyme to process this amino acid which can build up and posion cells of the nervous system

Question 18: Sympathetic Nervous System

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Subdivision of Autonomic Nervous System whose stimulation results in responses that help the body deal with stressful events; prepares the body for "fight or flight"; running from a terrifying object or situation

Question 19: Hypothalamus

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Controls body temperature and heart rate via control of sympathetic and parasympathetic centers in the medulla; drives such as thirst, hunger, sexual desire and behaviors; emotional states such as rage;

helps determine biological rhythms:menstrual cycle

Question 20: Neuropsychologists

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Explore the relationships between the brain/nervous systems and behavior

Question 21: Plasticity

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When one area of the brain is damaged, the brain can recognize to take over is function

Question 22: Thalamus

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Relay "station" for sensory pathways carrying visual, auditory, taste, somatosensory information to/from appropriate areas of cerebral cortex; Some nuclei involved in emotion

Question 23: Parasympathetic Nervous System

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Subdivision of Autonomic Nervous System whose stimulation calms the body following sympathetic stimulation by restoring normal body processes; causes bodily changes for maintenance or rest; calming down after running from a terrifying object or situation

Question 24: Central Nervous System

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consists of your brain and spinal cord

Question 25: Cerebral Cortex

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receives and processes sensory information and directs movement; center for higher order processes such as thinking, planning, and judgement

Question 26: Contralaterality

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control of one side of your body by the other side of your brain

Question 27: Cerebellum

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Maintains balance