Physiological Psychology

PSYC 6202 Physiological Psychology 

A complete cessation of eating	Aphagia
A disorder characterized by periods of not eating interrupted by bingeing	Bulimia nervosa
A disorder of under consumption	Anorexia nervosa
A disorder of voluntary movement that is not attributable to a simple motor deficit to any deficit in comprehension or motivation	Apraxia
A disorders of excessive sleep or sleepiness	Hypersomnia
A gastrointestinal process of breaking down food and absorbing its constituents into the body	Digestion
A layerof mucus-covered tissue	Olfactory mucosa
A reflex that is elicited by a sudden external stretching force on a muscle	Stretch Reflex
A simple sugar that is the breakdown product of complex carbohydrates, that is, starches and sugars	Glucose
A specific agnosia for visual stimuli	Visual agnosia
A study of the physiological bases of human and animal behavior	Physiological Psychology
Adeficiency in the ability to see movement progress in a normal smooth fashion	Akinetopsia
All are effects of damage to the auditory system, except:	Blindness
All are methods used in physiological psychology, except:	Physiological Psychology
All are psychophysiological measures of sleep	EEO
All are true about eating except:	None of the choices
Any area of cortex that receives input from morethan one sensory system	Association cortex
Aproperty of light that plays an important role in the perception of brightness	Intensity
Aproperty of light that plays an important role in the perception of color	Wavelength
Away where atteention can be focused is the internal cognitive process called_____	Endogenous Attention
Bulemicseat so little that they experience health threatening weight loss; and despite the iremaciated appearance, they often perceive themselves as fat	False
Cessation of menstruation	Amenorrhea
Clinicalapproach is actually answering one of the basic questions in philosophy	False
Comprises the areas of the sensory cortex that receive most of their input from the primary sensory cortex of that system or from other areas of the secondary sensory cortex of the samesystem	Secondary sensory cortex
Currently the dominant approach being used to study the brain mechanisms of human emotion	Cognitive neuroscience
Defined as waves of electromagnetic energy that is between 380 and 760 nanometers in length	Light
Dreamlike experiences during wakefulness	Hypnagogic hallucinations
Drugs that increases sleep	Hypnotic drugs
Endocrine gland is also known as the sweat glands	False
Endocrine gland releases their chemicals, which are calledhormones, directly into the circulatory system	True
Failure of recognition thatis not attributable to a sensory deficit or to verbal or intellectualimpairment	Agnosia
He developed the theory of evolution	Charles Darwin
he scientific study of the nervous system	Neuroanatomy
How many stages does sleep EEG has?	Four
Human is capable of making complex patterns of adjustment to the never endingchanges of his environment	True
Hungeris the gastrointestinal process of breaking down food and absorbing its constituents into the body	False
In this book, Darwin argued, largely on the basis of anecdotal evidence, that particular emotional responses, such as human facial expressions, tend to accompany the same emotional states in all members of a species	The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
It deals with how experience changes the brain	Learning
It deals with how these changes are stored and subsequently reactivated	Memory
It includes all disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep	Insomnia
It is also known as the sweat glands	Exocrine gland
It is characterized by recurring losses of muscle tone during wakefulness, often triggered by an emotional experience	CATAPLEXY
It is thought to participate in the storage of memories of learned sensorimotor skills through its various neuro plastic mechanism	Cerebellum
It is thought to play a special role in memory for the emotional significance of experiences	Amygdala
It is thought to store memories for consistent relationships between stimuli and responses the type of memories that develop incrementally over many trials	Striatum
It receives information from primary and secondary motor cortex, information about descending motor signals from brain stem motor nuclei, and feedback from motor responses via the somatosensory and vestibular systems	Cerebellum
It runs in a strip from the supplementary motor area to the lateral fissure	Premotor cortex
Lipogenesis is the production of body fat	True
Monitors information about theposition of the body that comes from receptors in the muscles, joints, andorgans of balance	Proprioceptive system
Neurons that fire when an individual performs a particular goal-directed hand movement or when she or he observes the same goal-directed movement performed by another	Mirror neurons
On the tongue, these are often located around small protuberances functional brain imaging	Papillae
Oneof the most obvious qualities of human visual experience	Color
Proposes that being awake disrupts the homeostasis of the body in some way and sleep is required to restore it	Recuperation theories of sleep
Proposes that sleep is not a reaction to the disruptive effects of being awake but the result of an internal 24-hour timing mechanism that is, we humans are programmed to sleep at night regardless of what happens to us during the day	Adaptation theories of sleep
Provides generalinformation about conditions within the body	Interoceptive system
Response of the gustatory system to chemicals in solution in the oral cavity	Taste
Senses external stimuli that are applied to the skin	Exteroceptive system
Tends to carry information about pain andtemperature	Anterolateral system
Tendsto carry information about touch and proprioception	Dorsal-column medial-lemniscus
The ability of such patients to respond to visual stimuli in their scotomas even though they have no conscious awareness of the stimuli	Blind sight
The area of sensory cortex that receives most of its input directly from the thalamic relay nuclei of thatsystem	Primary sensory cortex
The breakdown products of proteins	Amino Acids
The first major event in the study of the biopsychology of emotion was the publication in	1872
The first physiological theory of emotion was proposed independently by James and Lange in what year?	James and Lange
The idea that the human brain and the mind are separate entities became even more widely accepted	Cartesian dualism
The inability to move just as one is falling asleep or waking up	Sleep paralysis
The primary motor cortex is located in the pre central gyrus of what lobe of the brain	Frontal lobe
The science of behavior or the scientific study of human behavior	Psychology
The scientific study of the nervous system	Neuroscience
The sex, male or female, that a person believes himself or herself to be	Sexual identity
The small inhibitory interneurons that mediate recurrent collateral inhibition	Renshaw cells
The smallest units of motor activity	Motor units
The somatotopic layout of the human primary motor cortex is commonly referred to as	motor homunculus
The study of body processes	Physiology
The study of nervous system disorders	Neuro pathology
The study of the chemical bases of neural activity	Neuro chemistry
The study of the effects of drugs on neural activity	Neuropharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on the brain and behavior	Psychopharmacology
The study of the evolution, genetics, andadaptiveness of behavior, largely through the use of the comparative method	Comparative Psychology
The study of the neural mechanisms of behavior by manipulating the nervous systemsof nonhuman animals in controlled experiments	Physiological Psychology
The study of the neural mechanisms of human cognition, largely through the use of functional brain imaging	Cognitive neuroscience
The study of the relation between physiologicalactivity and psychological processes in human subjects by noninvasivephysiological recording	Psychophysiology
Theresponse of the olfactory system to airborne chemicals that are drawn byinhalation over receptors in the nasal passages	Smell
These are behaviors whose primary function is to protect the organism from threat or harm	Defensive behaviors
These are behaviors whose primary function is to threaten or harm	Aggressive behaviors
These drugs increases sleep	HYPNOTIC DRUGS
They are sexually attracted to members of both sexes	Bisexual
They are sexually attracted to members of the other sex	Heterosexual
They are sexually attracted to members of the same sex	Homosexual
This theory proposed that emotion-inducing sensory stimuli are received and interpreted by the cortex, which triggers changes in the visceral organs via the autonomic nervous system and in the skeletal muscles via the somatic nervous system	James-Lange theory
This theory proposed that emotional stimuli have two independent excitatory effects: They excite both the feeling of emotion in the brain and the expression of emotion in the autonomic and somatic nervous systems	Cannon-Bard theory
This theory proposes that being awake disrupts the homeostasis (internal physiological stability) of the body in some way and sleep is required to restore it	Recuperation theories of sleep
This theory suggests that sleep is like reproductive behavior in the sense that we are highly motivated to engage init, but we don't need it to stay healthy	ADAPTATION THEORIES OF SLEEP
Thistheory was proposed by Ewald Hering in 1878	Opponent-process theory
Thistheory was proposed by Thomas Young in 1802 and refined by Hermann vonHelmholtz in 1852	Component Theory
Though to participate in the storage of memories of learned sensorimotor skills through its various neuroplastic mechanism	Cerebellum
Visual agnosia for faces	Prosop agnosia
When the body is exposed to harm or threat, the result is a cluster of physiological changes that is generally referred to as	Stress