PSYC1002

What makes up the central nervous system?

What makes up the peripheral nervous system?

Where are sensory nerves located and what do they do?

Where are motor nerves and what do they do?

What does the autonomic nervous system do and what are the 2 components of the autonomic nervous system?

What does the sympathetic nervous system do? What neurotransmitters are involved

What does the parasympathetic nervous system do? What neurotransmitters are involved?

Where is the enteric nervous system

What 3 things protect the brain?

What are the 3 membranes of the meninges?

What does the blood brain barrier do?

What is the spinal cord made up of and what is its function?

What are the small gaps in the brain called?What do they contain and what are their purpose?

What does the brainstem control?

What does the cerebellum control?

Which part of the brain primarily relays sensory information to the cortex?

What is a key function of the hypothalmus?

What are the 6 components of the limbic system

What does the basal ganglia control

What is the neocortex? What are the 4 lobes that make up the neocortex?

Which lobe handles planning and executive functions?

Which lobe handles the understanding of space and spatial awareness?

What does the occiputal lobe primarily control

Which lobe controls memory and language?

What is the corpus callosum?

What is the name of a neurons resting state and what does it mean?

What makes a neuron depolarised?

What is hyperpolarisation? What is the other name for this process?

Which brain imaging technique involves attaching electrodes to the skull to measure electrical fields?

What does a PET scan do?

Which imaging technique uses radioactive waves in the head to get a structural view of the brain

Which imaging technique measures the changes in magnetic properties of the blood within radioactive field? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this technique?

How does MEG work? What are the advantages and disadvantages

What area of the brain keeps us conscious?

What is slow wave sleep?

What is REM?

Which part of the brain controls hunger?

A rat reduces eating dramatically to a much lower level (without dying) associated witha decrease in insulin. Which part of the brain has been lesioned?

What happens if you lesion the ventromedial hypothalmus in a rat?

What happens when the paraventricular nucleus is lesioned in a rat?

What part of the brain is the reward system located and what are the primary neurotransmitters?

What is hemispheric lateralisation?

Bill is unable to speak but can still understand people. What part of his brain is damaged and which lobe is it located? What is the name of the condition he is suffering from?

What would happen if you damaged your Wernicke's area? What part of the brain is this located? What condition would you be suffering from?

What are the 3 stages of memory processing?

What is mental chronometry?

When people seek out information that confirms their beliefs, what is this called?

What is the main characteristic of an early locus of selection?

What is the main characteristic of a late locus of selection?

In a dichotic listening test, if a person can only process one ear deeply and the only high level attributes on the other (sex of speaker etc..) What type of filter is this?

What are the 2 types of attentional control and their main features?

What is the name of the phenomenon when a change in visual stimuli is not noticed immediately?

What are the primary memory types?

What are features of iconic and echoic (sensory) memory

What are the features of short term memory?

What are the features of long term memory?

You can remember the start and end items in a list, what is this called?

What are the 3 elements of working memory?

The memory of how to ride a bike, tread water, skip etc.. is known as?

What are the 2 types of declerative memory?

Remembering the capital city of Guatemala. What type of memory is this?

Remembering the first concert you ever went to or the first girl you kissed. What type of memory is this?

Remembering the meaning of something but forgetting where you remembered it from is called?

What are the two forms of aphasia. What neurological damage causes each type

Of all brain function, which of these is the most strikingly lateralised?

Where is the Brocas area located?

Where is the Wernickes area located?

What do you suffer from when you damage your hippocampus? Explain

What happened to HM?

What did Brenda Milner show when studying HM?

What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?

What part of the brain does Wernickes Korsakoff syndrome affect, and what does it cause?

What neurological changes accompany Alzheimers disease?

What is the main feature of an associated network model?

What is the main feature of a propositional network model

What is a schema?

What is a script?

What are some examples of implicit (nondeclarative) memory?

What is priming?

What are the 2 types of declarative memory?

How are procedural (implicit) memories created?Why are they more resistant to brain damage?

When you perform better matching your method with your retrieval method, what is this called?

What are some causes of false memory?

What is the drawback of hypnosis in memory?

What is a memory around an emotional or dramatic world event called?

When you fill in the gaps of memories you don't remember, what is this called?

What are some causes of infantile amnesia?

What are the features of a reflex?

How do instincts differ from reflexes?

A rat hears a loud noise and jumps. With the repeated presentation of the loud noise it jumps less. What is this called?

What is sensitisation?