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Introduction to Psychology EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+




Motor Neuron - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Carries info from central
nervous system to muscles and glands. Brain to Bod

Sensory Neurons - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Carry info from
sensory receptors to the CNS. Body to Brain

Interneurons - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Communicate within
CNS. Brain to Brain

Nervous System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Electrochemical
communication network that consists of all of the nerve
cells of the peripheral and CNS. Communicates between
brain and body

,How do neurons communicate? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Phase
1: electrical. Action potential. Within neuron.
Phase 2: chemical. Between different neurons. Chemicals
that are exchanged are neurotransmitters.

Synapses - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Where neurotransmitters are
released by vesicles to be accepted by receptors; the
junction between the terminal branch of the sending
neuron and the dendrite of the receiving neuron

Multipolar neuron - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Multiple dendrites
One axon
Motor neurons and interneurons

Bipolar neuron - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-One dendrite
One axon
Specialized sensory neurons

Pseudo-unipolar neuron - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-One axon that
splits into two branches
Sensory neurons

Action potential - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-The neural impulse
that travels down an axon

Threshold - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-When excitatory signals
outweigh inhibitory

Agonists - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Bind to receptors and mimic
effects of neurotransmitter

,Antagonists - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Bind to receptors and
block subsequent functioning

Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
Creates arousal. Fight or flight and channels resources to
muscles

Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Calming and channels resources to
internal organs

Brain Stem - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Responsible for survival.
Consists of pons, medulla, reticular formation, and
thalamus

Limbic System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Responsible for
emotions and drives. Consists of hippocampus, amygdala,
and hypothalamus

Superior/Dorsal - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Top of brain

Anterior - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Front of brain

Posterior - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Back of brain

Inferior/Neutral - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Bottom of brain

, Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Ultimate control and
info processing center that consists of interconnected
neural cells covering the cerebral hemispheres

Hypothalamus - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Controls emotions,
autonomic functions, and hormone production

Amygdala - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Controls anger and fear

Hippocampus - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Forms new memories

Medulla - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-(Base of brain stem) controls
most basic functions like heartbeat and breathing

Pons - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Coordinate automatic and
unconscious movements

Frontal Lobe - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Planning, decision
making, speaking. Includes primary motor cortex

Temporal Lobe - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Auditory processing

Parietal Lobe - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Sensory input for touch
and position. Includes primary somatosensory cortex

Occipital Lobe - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Receives visual info

Cerebellum - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Balance and movement

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