Cards in this guide (22)
What is the name given to the valleys on the surface of the cerebral cortex
What is the largest part of the forebrain
cerebrum
This is the cerebrum, where higher-order thought processes occur. The cerebrum is responsible for mental processes such as memory recall, language, art, emotional control and many fine motor skills like the ability to write (or text).
What part of the brain helps to regulate drives such as hunger and thirst and also plays an important role in emotions
The short answer: the Hypothalamus.
In detail:
- Hunger: Satiety and feeding centers are present in hypothalamus.
- Thirst: Osmoreceptors in anterior hypothalamus.
- Emotions: Mamillary nuclei below posterior hypothalamus which are also a part of limbic system in mammilothalamic tract.
Other than this, Hypothalamus has following functions:
- Regulates body temperature
- Regulates activity of anterior pituitary gland
- Controls circadian rhythmControls sleep-waking cycle
- Integrates control of cardiovascular system
- Integrates control of Autonomic Nervous System (Hypothalamus is also called as head ganglion of ANS)
What might be the result if a person's cerebellum was damaged
The person might have difficulty with overall coordination and
lose their senses because this is one of the most important parts
of your brain and with out senses you couldn't see, hear, touch,
taste, or smell anything
The autonomic nervous system includes which of these major components
The peripheral nervous system includes which of these major components?
A: somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system
What should be used as a way to make an educated guess about the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable
What is the thick fiber network called that the cerebral hemispheres communicate with
Why was the accident involving Phineas Gage important to research scientists
the incident showed that a severe trauma such as a steel rod
going through a steel rod going through a persons frontal cortex
dould lead to behavior change
Why should the history of psychology be studied
so that doctors can take advantage of previous knowledge of
success and failure
How did John Watson define psychology
the study of observable behavior
What describes the results of BF Skinner's study of animal behavior
When an animal is reinforced for displaying a certain behavior,
the animal is likely to repeat that behavior.
The scientific investigation of the relationship between two or more variables describes which of these
What term is defined as a statement that the researcher believes to be true
What theory was advanced to explain why researchers discovered that there were a number of centers that dealt with language in the left cerebral hemisphere and not the right
The theory of lateralization was developed to explain this
phenomenon. The fields of brain study are always changing as
scientists and psychologists learn more and more about how the
brain functions.
Defense mechanisms are developed to help the ego cope with overwhelming anxiety What defense mechanism operates by pushing anxiety-provoking material into the unconscious
You decide to select ten percent of the inmates in a prison to receive a survey You decide you want your sample to be representative of the population Which sampling process would provide the most r
a stratified random sample
In terms of validity what can be said about the depression test scores
they are prob. not valid and the test is not mesured
depression
Studies have found that individuals who had parts of the limbic system that were deteriorated may have suffered from what condition
Studies have found that individuals who had parts of the limbic
system that were deteriorated may have suffered from what
condition?
alzheimers disease
The mean median and mode are examples of what type of statistics
What best describes the survey method of research
The survey method of research is sometimes called a census
survey. It relies on people responses to questions either with or
without explanation.
What type of research is used to gather information of describe a phenomenon
What variable is influenced by the variable that is manipulated