Exam 3: A--Biological Psychology

Damage to the____________________ tends to cause an impairment in planning and organizing movements.

When the axon is not stimulated, its membrane has a resting potential.

Action potentials are sent according to the all-or-none law.

The basic function of the axon is to receive information from other neurons.

The order of how information is processed in a neuron goes from ____________________ to ____________________ to ____________________.

Nearly all medical and recreational drugs that modify people's experiences exert their effects at ____________________.

The occipital lobe is specialized for hearing.

Mirror neurons are active when you make a movement, and also when you watch someone else make a similar movement.

Neurons are cells in the nervous system that function to process information. Each neuron consists of three parts. Name and describe each of the three parts.

People with Parkinson's disease have trouble in inhibiting emotional outbursts.

Neurons are able to communicate with each other by "skipping" action potentials across the synapse.

Parkinson's disease is thought to be caused by a deficiency in the activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Parkinson's disease can be helped by taking pills that contain ____________________.

The three parts of a neuron are the cell body, the ____________________, and the ____________________. or

Neurotransmitter molecules are stored in packets within the cell called ____________________.

Exactly five chemicals are used as neurotransmitters in the human brain.

A physiological explanation describes the mechanisms that produce a behavior.

LSD produces hallucinogenic experiences by attaching mainly to brain receptors sensitive to the neurotransmitter ____________________.

Research on the cerebral cortex has failed to find any one "master area" or "central processor" that pulls together all the current activity of the brain.

Otto Loewi conducted an experiment in which he answered a key question about the nature of signaling across the synapse. Briefly describe the hypothesis, method, results, and interpretation of Loewi's study.