PSYA01H3 FINAL EXAM Terms and Definitions UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

PSYA01H3 FINAL EXAM (Terms and Definitions) UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

1. neuroimaging
✔✔a type of brain scanning that provides information about which
areas of the brain are active when a person is doing something
2. electroencephalogram (EEG)
✔✔measures patterns of brain activity with the use of multiple
electrodes attached to the scalp
3. positron emission tomography (PET)
✔✔a type of scan in which a low level of a radioactive isotope is
injected into the blood, and its movement to regions of the brain
engaged in a particular task is measured
4. sensation
✔✔the process of detecting external events with sense organs and
turning those stimuli into neural signals
5. perception
✔✔involves attending to, organizing, and interpreting stimuli that
we sense
6. transduction
✔✔when specialized receptors transform the physical energy of the
outside world into neural impulses