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| What factor of light determines hue? |
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| What factor of light determines brightness? |
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| These cells respond to straight lines in a certain orientation |
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| These cells respond to particularly oriented lines and moving lines |
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| The dorsal stream responds to "where" or "what"? |
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| The ventral stream responds to "where" or "what"? |
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| What part of the brain is connected to the Dorsal Stream? |
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| Posterior Parietal Cortex |
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| What part of the brain is connected to the Ventral Stream? |
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| What part of the sound wave determines pitch? |
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| What part of the sound wave determines loudness? |
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| Where is the auditory cortex located? |
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| Superior temporal gyrus (Heschl's gyrus) |
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| What is contained within the inner and outer hair cells? |
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| How do hair cells transmit sensation? |
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| Movement of cilia produces changes in the membrane potential and release NTs |
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| Where are Pacinian Corpuscles located? |
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| Where are free nerve endings located? |
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| What do Pacinian corpuscles sense? |
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| What do free nerve endings sense? |
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| What system is involved in fine touch? |
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| Dorsal-column medial-lemniscus system |
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| What system is involved in pain and temperature? |
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| Where is the somatosensory cortex located? |
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| Types of Taste receptors? |
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| Saltiness, sourness, sweetness, bitterness, umami |
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| Taste receptors respond to what? |
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| What do olfactory receptors respond to? |
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| Is taste represented ipsilaterally or contra laterally? |
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| Collections of cell bodies |
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| Collections of axons covered with myelin sheath |
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| A large number of cell bodies grouped together |
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| A large number of axons grouped together |
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| Who believed the heart was the source of behavior? |
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| Who believed the brain was the source of behavior? |
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| Study of the relationship between the brain and behavior |
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| Study of the brain medically |
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| Overall field which encompasses NeuroPsych, Neurology, etc. |
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| Who believed an interaction of the mind and body produced behavior? |
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| Who developed the Hierarchical Model? |
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| Who developed the Neuron Hypothesis? |
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| Who developed the idea of Anti-localization? |
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| Who developed the NerveNet Hypothesis? |
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| Afferent neurons are also known as |
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| Efferent neurons are also known as |
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| Neurons that connect sensory and motor neurons |
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| The electrical charge of a neuron |
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| Rapid reversal of membrane potential |
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| Voltage level that triggers an action potential |
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| Tendency for molecules to distribute themselves evenly |
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| The force exerted by ions to repel or attract each other |
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| Which ions are in Intracellular fluid? |
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| Which ions are in Extracellular fluid? |
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| Molecular exchange in the Sodium-Potassium Pump |
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| Conduction of an action potential from Node of Ranvier to Node of Ranvier down a myelinated axon. |
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| Depolarization produced by the opening of NT-dependent Na+ or Ca2+ channel |
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| Hyperpolarization produced by the opening of NT-dependent K+ or Cl- channel |
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| Receptors on the terminal button that regulate the release of NTs |
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| Two mechanisms of sedative influence |
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| 1. Decrease metabolic activity in neurons; 2. Increase sensitivity of GABAa receptors. |
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| What type of drug are barbiturates? |
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| What type of drug are benzodiazepines? |
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| What type of drug is alcohol? |
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| What type of drug is nicotine? |
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| What type of drug is amphetamine? |
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| What type of drug is cocaine? |
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| modify perception, produce hallucinations |
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| Stimulate the CNS and activate behavior |
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| What type of drug is PCP? |
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| What type of drug is THC? |
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| Mechanism of Anti-Schizophrenic drugs |
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| Mechanism of anti-depressant drugs |
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| Act as monoamine agonists |
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| Function of Narcotic analgesic drugs |
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| What type of drug is meperidine? |
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| NT implicated in sleep regulation |
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| What dopamine system's degeneration is linked to Parkinson's? |
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| What dopamine system's degeneration is linked to Schizophrenia? |
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| Is serotonin primarily inhibitory or excitatory? |
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| GABA bonding to GABAa opens which channels? |
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| GABA bonding to GABAb opens which channels? |
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| LSD attaches to auto-receptors for what NT? |
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| Enzyme in the synaptic cleft that destroys NTs |
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| Enzyme in the neuron that destroys NTs |
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| Caffeine attaches to what receptors? |
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| Caffeine acts as an agonist of what NT? |
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| Large group of axons in the CNS |
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| Large group of axons in the PNS |
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| The Basal Ganglia is made up of (4) |
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| Caudate Nucleus, Putamen, Globus Pallidus and Sustania Nigra |
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| Destruction of Basal Ganglia leads to what kind of symtoms? |
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| Hyper/hypo kinetic symptoms |
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| Huntington's is linked to a genetic abnormality, what is it? |
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| C-A-G repeating 40+ times with more cases leading to shorter life |
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| regulates vision via dilation and narrowing |
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| Pigmented muscle- controls the size of the pupil |
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| transparent, behind the pupil and iris, changes shape for focus. Flat and thin = focus on things far away. Round and think= focus on things close up |
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| Control the shape of the lens |
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| process by which the eye focuses on images at varying distances. Involves the lens and the cilliary muscles |
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| back of the eye- where the photoreceptors are located |
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| Area of the retina where we bring the image at hand into focus composed exclusively of cones |
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| rods and cones: tranduce light into action potentials. Consist of opsin and retinal |
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| transduce bright light and able to see color (used for daytime vision) |
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| sensitive to dim light, only coding for the "intensiveness"( black and white) used for night vision |
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| also known as the blind spot, no photoreceptors in this area |
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| perceived location of an object differs between the 2 eyes. This is also why the blindspot is less evident. The blind spot of one eye is covered by the blind spot of the other |
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| binocular (retinal disparity) |
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| type of neuron, synapse with photoreceptors and induce action potentials in ganglion cells |
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| send axons into the brain, act as individual 'pixel' receptors |
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| the hyperpolarization of photoreceptors caused by the splitting of photopigments |
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| part of visual field to which a neuron responds |
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