Psych 101 Midterm 1

Front 1

Salic Acid

Back 1

Not in humans or neanderthals, I think

Front 2

According to Mitochondrial DNA we share

Back 2

common female ansester 100,000 years ago

Front 3

Because of y chromosomes we can see

Back 3

that we share common male answster 100,000 years ago

Front 4

Oldest modern human scull found

Back 4

200,000 years ago

Front 5

Human left Africa

Back 5

60-40,000 yeasr ago throough miuddle to Austrilia

Front 6

Microcephaly

Back 6

Small head and small brain - very low IQ

Front 7

Fox PZ

Back 7

Can't tell difference between past and present tense - when knocked out in mice it makes them unable to squeek

Front 8

Some ares in brain account for both laungage and

Back 8

ability to walk upright

Front 9

Schizorphrenia has to do with levels of

Back 9

Dopamine in the midbrain and frontal lobe

Front 10

Drugs that can cause behavior that mimics schizorphenria

Back 10

Ketamine

Front 11

Bipolar disorder can be caused by

Back 11

Stuttering genes or trinucleotide repeats

Front 12

Prozec

Back 12

Increases serotonin

Front 13

B-amyloid blumps associated with

Back 13

Alzheimer's disease

Front 14

Hippocampus

Back 14

Associated with memory and retrevial - first system of alzheimer's

Front 15

In Alzheimer's

Back 15

Old memories are more resistant to damage than recent memories

Front 16

What damages the brain?

Back 16

Peroxide and sinc and copper

Front 17

Anit-oxidants

Back 17

they work against peroxides and helps prevent shrinkage

Front 18

Glutamate

Back 18

An excitartory neurotransmitter

Front 19

GABA

Back 19

Inhititory neurotransmitter that is activated by alcholog

Front 20

Apoptosis

Back 20

This occurs with alcholo - makes cells commit suicide by cells in FAS

Front 21

Neural Adhesion Protein

Back 21

When decrease brain cannot develop correctly

Front 22

ADH

Back 22

How well you metabolize alcohol - higher amount found in men

Front 23

With alcohol, women are

Back 23

More likely to get brain and liver damage

Front 24

MAO

Back 24

X-chromosome linked gene - made men more likely to be aggressive

Front 25

Normal MAO

Back 25

Good parents - low aggression

Front 26

High MAO

Back 26

Bad parents makes bad citizen

Front 27

As far as IQ goes, men are

Back 27

More variable than women

Front 28

Neural development

Back 28

Begins as a fluid cord/hollow tube

then cerebral hemisphere develops

Front 29

what percent of the human brain is cerebral cortex

Back 29

70%

Front 30

Balanced polymorphism

Back 30

A certain proportion of genes is selected for – Even if certain genes are negative (such as more aggressive) it’s ok if the gene appears in small amounts, because maybe that individual may be the hero of a small community

Front 31

hypothalamus is very closely connected to the

Back 31

Pituitary gland

Front 32

Nuclei are in the

Back 32

Hypothalamus and each has an important function relating to metabolism and motivation and emotion

Front 33

Pons/medulla

Back 33

Cough and gag reflex

Front 34

Cerebellum

Back 34

Complex sensory motor interaction - can live without though

Front 35

Diencephalons

Back 35

Middle of the brain

Front 36

Thalamus

Back 36

Gateway – determines which information reaches consciousness

Front 37

Sleeping sickness is caused by

Back 37

damage to the reticular formation

Front 38

VMN

Back 38

Has to do with metabolism - prefer sweet food

Front 39

Amygdale

Back 39

bilateral, when amygdale is overactive we become very fearful and aggressive. When amygdale doesn’t work individuals are incapable of feeling and can not fear. It might be possible that abnormal amygdale activity may have to do with

Front 40

Frontal Lobe

Back 40

Very specialized, empathy, most highly developed, higher cognitive and creative functions are a function of the frontal lobe, mood is also involved here, immune responses, empathy – ability to recognize the effects of our behavior on others

Front 41

Parietal Lobe

Back 41

Dancing, knowing were your hands are on a piano, body sensations, somatic sensations, spatial functions, men tend to have a larger parietal lobe, direction finding

Front 42

Temporal Lobe

Back 42

Recognition, facial and emotional recognition, auditory and language, music

Front 43

Occipital Lobe

Back 43

Visual perception, eye sends input, strictly visual in nature, Humans have best vision

Front 44

Cell Body

Back 44

Soma; All the metabolic characteristics of cells; also receives messages from other sources; attached to it are tiny branches that are called dendrites, which are specialized for receiving information from different sources

Front 45

Axon

Back 45

Specialized for transporting information over long distances without losing information

Front 46

Axon Potential

Back 46

Yes or no message of the axon – Electrical charge that is sent all the way along the axon

Front 47

If Axon Spike doesn’t work correctly

Back 47

multiple Scoliosis - Myelin helps this process and increases speed and efficiency

Front 48

Myelin

Back 48

Fat substance that serves as insulation

Front 49

Neuron Transmitters jump

Back 49

across the synapses gap

Front 50

Synapses

Back 50

Fluid filled gap between 2 neurons that neurotransmitters send signals

Front 51

When axon spike reaches axon potential the closest synapses burst letting

Back 51

out all the neurotransmitters

Front 52

After reception

Back 52

an ion channel forms, so information can be transferred very easily

Front 53

Because of this channel (instead of just direct connection)

Back 53

we can make choices (so we have chemical synapses)

Front 54

G-Protein Receptor

Back 54

This synapses is slow in modulation – Instead of just using the ion channel, it activates a G-protein which may or may not open the ion channel. Allows us to bring in other information, such as prior training (analyze)

Front 55

Neural Transmitters

Back 55

very quickly, short life, rapidly – To deactivate it, it can be sucked back up (reuptake) and made to be pre-synapses or we have deactivating enzymes

Front 56

Just read this a lot

Back 56

Neuron transmitter has to be where it is supposed to be, vesicles by axon terminal – Released by the action of an axon spike – then go across the synapse and occupy a post-synapse gap

Front 57

Blood Brain Barrier

Back 57

metabolic characteristic that allows only certain substances or chemicals to enter the brain

Front 58

Right partial lobe larger `

Back 58

Directions

Front 59

Sensations

Back 59

Decreases in sensitivity – adaptation. Thalamus blocks out certain sounds until they are brought to your attention, habituation.

Front 60

In the back of the retina we have the object

Back 60

Upside down and backwards

Front 61

When rays are focused behind retina we are

Back 61

Farsighted

Front 62

When rays are focused in front of retina

Back 62

Nearsighted

Front 63

Hearing

Back 63

Energy transferred from one place to another, energy created from vocal coreds, which vibrates air molecules, sound cannot travel through a vacuum

Front 64

Type 1 alcoholism

Back 64

bullet The onset of alcohol-related problems occurs after the age of 25.
bullet A low degree of spontaneous alcohol-seeking behavior and alcohol-related fighting.
bullet Psychological dependence, coupled with guilt and fear about alcoholism.
bullet A low degree of novelty-seeking and a high degree of harm avoidance.

Front 65

Type 2 alcoholism

Back 65

bullet The onset of alcohol-related problems occur before the age of 25.
bullet There is a high degree of spontaneous alcohol-seeking behavior and fighting.
bullet Infrequent feelings of guilt and fear about alcohol dependence.
bullet A low degree of harm avoidance and a high degree of thrill seeking.

Front 66

What are two structures that make up the diencephalon

Back 66

#

* thalamus

# hypothalamus

Front 67

metabotropic receptor

Back 67

receptors associated with G proteins

Front 68

Ionotropic receptors

Back 68

Receptors that are associated with ligand-activated ion channels

Front 69

Metencephalon

Back 69

Reticular formation, pons, cerebellum

Front 70

The rattlesnake is different from us because it:

Back 70

See infared

Front 71

Rods are responsible for

Back 71

Vision in dim light