Exam 2: Neuroscience Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology

______ refers to the idea that different areas of the brain work together in specific circumstances.

A recessive trait may be inherited only if a gene's recessive allele is inherited from both parents. This is Mendel's first law, the law of ______.

Of the neuroscientific research methods described in the textbook, ______ and electroencephalography have the MOST precise temporal resolution.

Mendel's law of ______ states that the inheritance of the gene of one trait is not affected by the inheritance of the gene for another trait.

"For example, Broca's area in the left frontal lobe is dedicated to speech production, whereas the fusiform face area is specialized for processing faces," lectures a psychology instructor. The instructor is MOST likely describing the concept of ______.

The brain is incredibly intricate, with neuroscientists estimating that there are approximately ______ different connections in the human brain!

Mrs. Lennox suffers a stroke, damaging a portion of her parietal lobe. Mrs. Lennox will MOST likely experience difficulty in ______.

Individuals with schizophrenia display (1) decreased brain volume and (2) a loss of white matter in the brain. Findings 1 and 2 MOST likely reflect the results of brain imaging research using ______ and ______, respectively.

The concept of ______ describes how specific areas of the brain are dedicated to certain types of processes.

______ is a field of ethical inquiry that is asking how brain processes are involved in making moral decisions, as well as who should have access to your internal processes.

Describe the small-world framework. Explain how the framework offers a metaphor for the organization of neurons in the brain. Illustrate your answer with an example drawn from your own social connections or network.

In ______ inheritance, DNA is inherited only from the mother, in clear violation of the classical Mendelian view.

John lies, cheats, and steals. He doesn't care how he hurts others. Based solely on this information, John's case BEST illustrates ______ personality disorder.

Provide an example of a research question for which it is critical that a brain imaging technique has good spatial resolution. Provide an example of a research question for which it is critical that a brain imaging technique has good temporal resolution. For each question, identify and briefly describe a specific neuroimaging technique that would be appropriate.

A researcher plots the amount of white matter in the brain as a function of participants' age, from childhood through old age. Higher values on the y-axis indicate more white matter. The graph's function should resemble a(n) ______.

Currently, there is no neuroscience technique that can definitively diagnose a given individual with a particular mental disorder.

The intrinsic network is the brain's default network.

Several ethical questions have been raised with regard to who should have access to one's internal processes and implications for genetic discoveries. Describe one of these issues and the evidence to support both sides.

In ______ inheritance, the environment and experiences of your ancestors may have marked their genes such that the total copy you receive is different from the copy they started with.

Which brain imaging method has the LEAST precise temporal resolution?