Test Bank For Biological Psychology 13th Edition by James W. Kalat ||ISBN NO:10,9781337408202| Questions And Answers
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Biological Psychology
Test Bank For Biological Psychology 13th Edition by James W. Kalat ||ISBN Test Bank For Biological Psychology 13th Edition by James W. Kalat ||ISBN NO:10,9781337408202| Questions And Answers
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absolute refractory - Answer-Cells need to go through all steps before starting another act...
/.Acetylcholine (Ach) is important for what? - Answer-Neuromuscular junction
neurotransmitter.
Helps muscles contract.
/.Action Potential - Answer-Charged changes that cell membranes go under for neurons
to communicate and for muscles to contract.
/.active transport - Answer-The protein-mediated process expends energy to pump
chemicals from the blood into the brain. Glucose, amino acids, and vitamins are brought
into the brain via active transport.
/.Active transport role - Answer-Process in which cells move substances across the
blood into the brain against a concentration gradient, using energy.
/.Afferent axon - Answer-brings information into a structure
/.After the action potential reaches its peak, the potential across the membrane falls
toward its resting level. What accounts for this recovery? - Answer-Potassium ions
move out because their channels are open and the concentration gradient pushes them
out.
/.Amino Acids are synthesized by? - Answer-Building blocks of proteins.
/.Anandamide - Answer-Enhances mood and motivation, high-order thinking, and
control movement.
/.Anandamides role? - Answer-Bliss neurotransmitter, pleasure, enhances mood and
motivation.
/.Anterior - Answer-toward the front
, /.Aspartate - Answer-Boosts athletic performance and enhances the body's metabolism.
/.Basal Ganglia function - Answer-Facilitates planing of motor movement, memory, and
emotional expression. Important for attention, language planning, and other cognitive
functions.
/.Biological psychology is primarily concerned with the relationship between which of the
following? - Answer-Brain activity and behavior
/.Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) - Answer-a selective mechanism that protects the brain from
toxins and infections
/.Brain confuses ______ & ________ and decides not to produce it. - Answer-THC &
Anandamide.
/.Brain confuses THC with what and not produce it? - Answer-Anandamide.
/.Catecholamines are synthesized from what? - Answer-Tyrosine
/.cell body (soma) - Answer-contains the nucleus and other parts of the cell needed to
sustain its life
/.Cingulate gyrus - Answer-allows you to do challenging things. Predicting painful
consequences.
/.Cingulate gyrus function? - Answer-allows you to do challenging things.
/.Contralateral - Answer-opposite side
/.Dendrites - Answer-Branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive
information.
/.Depolarization - Answer-Making the cell positive due to the opening of +Na-gated
channels.
/.Distal - Answer-away from the point of attachment
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