Physiological Psychology Targeted Review: Exam 3
1) importance of advances in neuroscientific method related to testing hypotheses and
theories – methods lecture
2) characteristics and information provided by different imaging techniques and some
neuroimaging findings using fMRI – Ch 5 and lecture
3) steps and goal of methods to manipulate the brain – methods lecture
4) planes of movement and scales of measurement in stereotaxic surgery – methods
lecture
5) methods of manipulating the brain of humans and animals, including those that
require stereotaxic surgery – Ch 5 and lecture
6) characteristics of different lesion methods – Ch5 and lecture
7) what individual hippocampal cells respond to – methods lecture
8) elevated plus maze and open field tests – Ch5 and lecture
9) triple dissociation lesion findings with radial maze and lesion findings with the water
maze – methods lecture
10) tests, measures and findings related to place learning – Ch5 and lecture
11) test of frontal lobe function and IQ – Ch 5
12) characteristics of light – Ch 6
13) anatomy of the eye – Ch 6
14) what different species can see – Ch 6 and lecture
15) what happens when focusing on near or far objects – Ch 6
16) terms and characteristics of cone and rod based vision – Ch 6
17) adjusting the configuration of the lens – Ch 6
18) what is related to the absorption spectrum of rhodopsin – Ch 6
19) characteristics of visual transduction of light in photoreceptors – Ch 6
20) connections between rods/cones and ganglion cells - Ch 6
21) connections of hemiretinas – Ch 6
22) characteristics of visual information conducted along the retina-geniculate-striate
pathway – Ch 6
23) theories of vision – Ch 6
24) differences between simple and complex cells – Ch 6
25) M and P pathways – Ch 6
26) models of sensory system organization – Ch 6
27) blindsight – Ch 6
28) theories of dorsal and ventral visual streams – Ch 6
29) prosopagnosia – Ch 6
Extra credit multiple choice – from sections in chapters 12 and 13
1) theory/myth regarding two hypothalamic regions and eating behavior – Ch 12
2) hormonal effects on sexual differentiation of the brain and during puberty – Ch 13