Physiological Psychology Celebration of learning

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For each question – provide an answer and then EXPLAIN WHY?

Use the course vocabulary to explain the reason your answer is correct.

1. Why do the effects of certain transmitters, such as serotonin, vary from one synapse to another?
2. Studies of people with dyslexia support this generalization:
3. The hypothalamus is most directly related to:
4. Olfactory receptors carry their message to the:
5. Mammals have circadian rhythms:
6. The basic building blocks for the majority of neurotransmitters are:
7. Vision is to retina as hearing is to:
8. What will cause a muscle to relax?
9. A Golgi tendon organ responds to:
10. Several studies examined people who were deprived of REM sleep for a few days and then permitted to sleep without disturbance. The resulting sleep patterns of those people suggest that the need for REM sleep is to a large degree:
11. Communication in the nervous system is best described as ____ within neurons, and ____ between neurons.
12. Which lobe contains the primary motor cortex and the prefrontal cortex?
13. Across species, it appears that the sense organs are most attuned to:
14. Because infants move their trunk muscles much more adeptly than their peripheral muscles, we can infer that the ____ is slow to mature.
15. Classical conditioning is to ____, as operant conditioning is to ____.
16. The cingulate cortex, amygdala, and hypothalamus are traditionally linked to:
17. Which would be especially important when running up a flight of stairs at full speed?
18. Reorganization of connections in the somatosensory cortex is responsible for the phenomenon of
19. The brain finds out about the degree of stretch of the stomach from:
20. In order to elicit movement, the motor cortex:
21. A major difference between hormones and neurotransmitters is that
22. Foveal vision has
23. The neurotransmitter GABA exerts ____ effects, and its effects are almost always ____.
24. If you wanted to find an area of the nervous system that is responsible for excessive anxieties and fears, where should you concentrate your research?
25. What neurotransmitter is released by axons that carry pain information to the brain?