Welcome!
The Topic For Today Is…
Neuroscience!
Neural
Processing
Brain Parts
Genetics
Neural Systems Miscellaneous
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Bonus Question: 5000 pts
Neural Process:
200
• Question:
• A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing
the fibers of many neurons?
• Answer
• What is Myelin Sheath!
Neural Process:
400
• Question:
• Neurotransmitter enabling muscle action,
learning, and memory?
• Answer
• What is Acetecholine (Ach)!
Neural Process:
600
• Question:
• Molecule similar enough in structure to mimic
the effect of a neurotransmitter.
• Answer
• What is an Agonist!
Neural Process:
800
• Question:
• Excitatory signals minus inhibitory signals and
exceeding a minimum intensity? (The
minimum amount of stimulation needed for
neural firing)
• Answer
• What is Threshold!
Neural Process:
1000
• Question:
• Neurotransmitter influencing movement,
learning, attention, and emotion?
• Answer
• What is Dopamine!
Brain Parts:
200
• Question:
• An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that
controls voluntary movements?
• Answer
• What is the Motor Cortex!
Brain Parts:
400
• Question:
• The base of the brainstem controlling
heartbeat and breathing?
• Answer
• What is the Medulla!
Brain Parts:
600
• Question:
• Influences hunger, thirst, body temperature,
and sexual desire? (Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’
roll!)
• Answer
• What is the Hypothalamus!
Brain Parts:
800
• Question:
• Visual cortex, angular gyrus, Wernicke’s area,
Broca’s area, and motor cortex are involved in
what type of processing?
• Answer
• What is Language!
Brain Parts:
1000
• Question:
• A condition resulting from surgery that
isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by
cutting the fibers connecting them?
• Answer
• What is Split Brain!
Genetics:
200
• Question:
• Complete instructions for making an
organism?
• Answer
• What is a Genome!
Genetics:
400
• Question:
• The study of the relative power and limits of
genetic and environmental influences on
behavior? (Study of genetic and
environmental influences on behavior?)
• Answer
• What is Behavior Genetics!
Genetics:
600
• Question:
• A complex molecule containing the genetic
information that makes up the chromosomes?
• Answer
• What is DNA!
Genetics:
800
• Question:
• A random error in gene replication that leads
to a change? (Red hair is an example of this)
• Answer
• What is Mutation! (Red-headed mutants!)
Genetics:
1000
• Question:
• The extent to which variation among individuals
in attributable to their differing genes?
• Answer
• What is Heritability!
• Ex) If the heritability of height is 90%, this DOES
NOT mean a woman can attribute 54 inches to
genes and the other 6 to environment!
Neural Systems:
200
• Question:
• The body’s speedy, electrochemical
communication network, consisting of all the
nerve cells of the peripheral and central
nervous systems?
• Answer
• What is Nervous System!
Neural Systems:
400
• Question:
• The sensory and motor neurons that connect
the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of
the body?
• Answer
• What is Peripheral Nervous System! (PNS)
Neural Systems:
600
• Question:
• The part of the peripheral nervous system that
controls the glands and the muscles of the
internal organs? (Hint: it has 2 divisions)
• Answer
• What is Autonomic Nervous System!
Neural Systems:
800
• Question:
• System that increases heart rate, blood
pressure, blood glucose, perspirations, and
slows digestion?
• Answer
• What is Sympathetic Nervous System!
Neural Systems:
1000
• Question:
• System that calms the body, decreasing heart
rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, and
perspirations?
• Answer
• What is Parasympathetic Nervous System!
Miscellaneous:
200
• Question:
• Theory that claimed bumps on the skull could
reveal our mental abilities and character
traits?
• Answer
• What is Phrenology!
Miscellaneous:
400
• Question:
• A branch of psychology concerned with the
links between biology and behavior? (Think
behavioral neuroscientist, neuropsychologist,
behavior geneticist, physiological psychologist,
or biopsychologist!)
• Answer
• What is Biological Psychology!
Miscellaneous:
600
• Question:
• A simple, automatic response to a sensory
stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response?
• Answer
• What is a Reflex!
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Miscellaneous:
800
Question:
Endocrine system’s master gland?
Answer
What is the Pituitary Gland! Under the
influence of the hypothalamus, it regulates
growth and controls other endocrine glands.
Miscellaneous:
1000
• Question:
• A technique for revealing blood flow and,
therefore, brain activity by comparing
successive MRI scans?
• Answer
• What is an fMRI! (functional MRI)
Bonus Question:
5000 pts.
• Question:
• Man whose frontal lobe was impaled by a rod
damaging his frontal lobe and changed him
from affable and soft-spoken to irritable,
profane, and dishonest?
• Answer
• Drum roll!
• What is Phineas Gage!
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