Biological Psychology Fundamentals

Anything that an organism does that involves action and response to stimulation

<p>The idea that both body and mind exist</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An involuntary response to a stimulus caused by direct connection between a sensory receptor and a muscle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The principle that the dorsal root of a spinal nerve carries sensory information to the spinal cord and the ventral root conveys commands to the muscles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The message detected by the nervous systems is determined by which nerve carries the message</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A visual sensation caused by pressure on the optic nerve</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gall's science of the mind, which assumed that mental functions are localized in certain brain areas and that character can be determined by studying the skull</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The uppermost portion of the brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contributes to speech production</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contributes to understanding language and producing intelligible speech</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A memory trace or the physical location of specific memories</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The finding that the greater the brain area destroyed, the more severe the impact on learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that any part of a functional area can carry out the function of that area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that the nervous system consists of a network of connected nerves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that the nervous system is made up of individual nerve cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nerve cell</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The point of functional contact between a neuron and its target</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Loewi's term for the chemical that acts to decrease the heart rate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The experimental destruction of neurons or the surgical removal of a part of the brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A surgical instrument that allows a neuroscientist to create a lesion in a specific region of the brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A technique that produces a static image of the brain by shooting a narrow beam of x rays from all angles to produce a cross-sectional image</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A technique that produces a static image of the brain by passing a strong magnetic field through the brain, followed by a radio wave, then measuring the radiation emitted from hydrogen atoms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An electrode designed to record from many neurons at one</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A graphical record of the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A neural response to sensory stimulation introduced by an experimenter</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An electrode designed to record the activity of one or a few neurons</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positron Emission Tomography</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the relationship between the nervous system and mental processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cerebral blood flow in the brain to obtain images of neural activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The injection of radioactive chemicals into the bloodstream and subsequent analysis of neural tissue to determine where a specific chemical is found in the nervous system</p> Signup and view all the answers