Test 1 Objectives
PSYC 465
Chapter 1
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What is biological psychology?
What are the two approaches to experimentation in biological psychology?
What are the five major research perspectives that characterize biological psychology?
How does biological psychology relate to social behavior?
What is the impact of neurological disorders on the United States?
Know the philosophical issues that relate to biological psychology.
What are some of the important names connected with biological psychology?
Explain plasticity in relation to the brain.
What scientific approaches are involved when researching biological psychology areas?
What is the importance of animals in research?
What re the basic units of the nervous system?
Chapter 2
2-1
What types of cells reside in the nervous system?
2-2
Name the basic structures of the neuron.
2-3
Neurons are categorized into three main areas, what are they and what types of neurons
fall into these categories?
2-4
Know the basics of the synapse.
2-5
Glial cells: What types and what are their functions?
2-6
What are the major divisions of the brain?
2-7
What are the lobes and the general functions of the cerebral cortex, limbic system,
midbrain, cerebellum, medulla, cerebral cortex, and the basal ganglia?
2-8
What does the spinal cord include?
2-9
Give a general description of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
2-10 What imaging methods are used to map the structure of the brain? The activity?
2-11 What are the meniges and what is their function? Know the ventricular system
2-12 Know the ventricular system
Chapter 3
3-1
What is resting potential? Define electrical potential and membrane potential.
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Ionic Mechanisms: what are concentration gradient, osmotic pressure, and electrostatic
pressure?
3-3
Know about semipermeable membranes: lipid bylayer, passive K+ channels, gated
channels.
3-4
Know about intra and extracellular ion concentrations as well as equilibrium.
3-5
Define hyperpolarization and depolarization.
3-6
Know about graded potentials and the ionic bases of graded potentials. Excitatory and
inhibitory synapses.
3-7
Define action potential and the process that it goes through.
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What are the three kinds of gated channels?
Understand what temporal summation and spatial summation.
What are the variations between cells and what accounts for these variations?
Know about the axon hillock.
Know about saltatory conduction.
What are the processes involved in the release of transmitter?
Know synaptic physiology and how the quantity released is modulated.
Be acquainted with transmitter receptors: define ligand, what is the lock and key analogy.
Know about ionotropic and metabotropic receptors.
Be familiar with the diagram of the electrical synapse.
Know about seizure disorders.
What are neural circuits?
What methods are used when measuring electrical activity.
Chapter 4
4-1
Be able to define drug.
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Be able to give a brief history of psychopharmacology.
4-3
Review neurophysiology as it relates to drugs.
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What are the basic classifications of drug actions?
4-5
Know the classical neurotransmitters.
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What are synthesis pathways and what do they entail.
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What are the six criteria that define a transmitter?
4-8
What are the noradrenergic system and the serotonergic system and what do they involve.
4-9
Know about amino acids.
4-10 Know about presynaptic drug action, including: alterations in transport and synthesis,
alterations in storage and release, alterations in reuptake.
4-11 Know about postsynaptic drug actions, including: the direct effect on receptors,
alterations in transmitter metabolism, second messenger function, and gene transcription.
4-12 Be familiar with dose-response relationships, including: standard D-R curve, relative
potencies, therapeutic index, maximum effects, and secondary binding.
4-13 Know about the different drugs covered in this chapter, opiates, cannabinoids,
anxiolytics, stimulants, hallucinogens, and recreational drugs.
4-14 How is a tolerance to drugs developed?
4-15 Be acquainted with the models of drug abuse.
4-16 What is the relationship between biological psychology and treatments for drug abuse?
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