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NSC 1306 Final Exam Questions and Answers Converging operations - Answer-use of several research approaches to solve a single problem Comparative psychology - Answer-studies evolution, genetics, and adaptiveness of behavior by using the comparing to other species Case study - Answer-An in-...

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NSC 1306 Final Exam Questions and
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Applied Research - Answer-Research that is intended to bring about some direct benefit
to human kind

Autonomic nervous system - Answer-Part of the PNS that participates in the regulation
of the body internal environment

Biopsychology - Answer-scientific study of the biology of behavior

Between- subjects design - Answer-experimental design in which a different group of
subjects is tested under each condition

Clinical - Answer-pertaining to treatment

Comparative approach - Answer-The study of biological processes by comparing
different species

Confounding variable - Answer-A factor other than the factor being studied that might
produce an effect

Coolidge effect - Answer-the revival of sexual arousal caused by the presence of a
novel partner

Critical thinking - Answer-process of recognizing the weakness of existing ideas and the
evidence on which they are based

Converging operations - Answer-use of several research approaches to solve a single
problem

Comparative psychology - Answer-studies evolution, genetics, and adaptiveness of
behavior by using the comparing to other species

Case study - Answer-An in-depth investigation of an individual subject.

Cognitive neuroscience - Answer-uses functional brain imaging to study the neural
mechanisms of human cognition

Cerebral cortex - Answer-layer of neural tissue covering the cerebral hemispheres

Evolutionary perspective - Answer-focuses of the environmental pressures that likely led
to the evolution of the brain and behavior of a species

,Ethological research - Answer-The study of animal behavior in its natural environment

Generalizability - Answer-the degree to which their results can be applied to other cases

Korsakoff's syndrom - Answer-- neuopsychological disorder with symptoms of memory
loss, sensory/motor dysfunction, and severe dementia
- common in alcoholics

Leucotome - Answer-Any of the various surgical devices used for performing lobotomies

Lordosis - Answer-posture of a female rodent sexual receptivity

Morgan's Canon - Answer-rule that the simplest possible explanation for behavior
should be given precedence

Neurons - Answer-specialized for reception, conduction, and transmission of
electrochemical signals

Neuroscience - Answer-- the scientific study of the nervous system
- interdisciplinary scientific approaches to the study of the brain

Neuroanatomy - Answer-- The study of the structure of the nervous system
- the brain

Neuroendocrinology - Answer-study of how brain and behavior are affected by
hormones

Neuropathology - Answer-Nervous system disorders

Neuropharmacology - Answer-The study of the effects of drugs on neural activity

Neurophysiology - Answer-Functions and activities of the nervous system

Neuropsychology - Answer-The study of the behavioral effects of brain damage in
humans.

Psychosurgery - Answer-Surgical destruction of specific brain areas

Prefrontal lobes - Answer-the large areas, left and right, at the very front of the brain.

Prefrontal lobotomy - Answer-surgical disconnection of the prefrontal cortex from the
rest of the brain

Psychophysiology - Answer-Studies the relation between physiological activity and
psychological processes in human subjects

,Psychopharmacology - Answer-the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Physiological psychology - Answer-- the study of the neural mechanisms of behavior
through direct manipulation
- nonhuman subjects

Pure research - Answer-research for the sake of knowledge

Quasiexperimental studies - Answer-- Studies of groups of subjects exposed to
conditions in the real world
- lots of confounding variables

Scientific inference - Answer-logical process by which events are used to infer
properties of unobservable events

Transitional research - Answer-research the is converted from scientific discoveries to
effective applications

Transorbital lobotomy - Answer-A prefrontal lobotomy performed with a cutting
instrument inserted through the eye socket

Thinking creatively - Answer-productive and unconventional ways

Within-subjects design - Answer-same subjects are tested under each condition

Anterior - Answer-Toward the front (nose end)

Astrocytes - Answer-- a star-shaped glial cell of the central nervous system.
- blood brain barrier

Arachnoid membrane - Answer-- Meningie with spider web like appearance
Middle layer of the three membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord- middle
layer

Afferent nerves - Answer-Carry Sensory signals to the spinal cord (CNS)

Blood-brain barrier - Answer-A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering
the brain but allows others to cross

Bipolar neuron - Answer-neurons with 2 process

Basal ganglia - Answer-collection of subcortical nuclei
- striatum and globus pallidus

Brain stem - Answer-- cerebral hemispheres rest on it
- regulates reflex activities like heart rate and breathing

, Central canal - Answer-a fluid-filled channel in the center of the spinal cord

cross section - Answer-section cut at a right angle to and structure in the CNS

Cerebellum - Answer-- sensory motors skills and memory storage
- mesencephalic structure

Central nervous sytem - Answer-Brain and spinal cord

Cerebral aqueduct - Answer-Connects the third and fourth ventricles

Contralateral - Answer-projecting from onesie of the body to the other side

Cerebral commissures - Answer-Hemisphere connecting tracts

Corpus callosum - Answer-- The structure that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.
- cerebral commissure

Central fissure - Answer-separates frontal lobe from parietal lobe

Columnar organization - Answer-Specific sites in brain respond to a particular body
location and modality

Cingulate gyri - Answer-- on the frontal lobe. - processing emotions and behavior
regulation.

Caudate - Answer-The tail-like structure that is part of the striatum

Cranial nerves - Answer-12 pairs of nerves that carry messages to and from the brain

Choroid plexuses - Answer-produce cerebrospinal fluid

Cerebral ventricles - Answer-Cerebrospinal fluid fills space in the brain called

Cerebrospinal fluid - Answer-clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain

Dura mater - Answer-tough outer meningi

Diencephalon - Answer-thalamus and hypothalamus

Dorsal root ganglia - Answer-clusters of sensory neurons outside the spinal cord

Distal - Answer-Far from something

dorsal - Answer-toward the back

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