Sample ‘short answer’ questions for Lecture Exam 4 (Final Exam) (1) Briefly describe the meninges and spaces that surround the spinal cord. Meningeal Branch: Tiny‚ reenters vertebral canal‚ innervates meninges and blood vessels (2) Distinguish among exteroceptors‚ interoceptors and proprioceptors. Exteroceptors: Respond to stimuli arising outside body Receptors in the skin for touch‚ pressure‚ pain‚ and temperature Most special sense organs (vision‚ hearing‚ equilibrium‚ taste‚ smell) Interoceptors:
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variations in the typical brain plan can vary in the way their minds work. For instance‚ homosexual men are likely to have a relatively small nucleus in the anterior hypothalamus‚ a nucleus known to have a role in sex differences. Convicted murderers and other violent‚ antisocial people are likely to have a relatively small and inactive prefrontal cortex‚ the part of the brain that governs decision-making and inhibits impulses. These facts imply that differences in intelligence‚ scientific genius‚ sexual
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Science = boat - continually rebuild while trying to stay afloat -phil/scientist…psych/nero same boat -psych- info about mental models -but psych needs to be constrined by knowledge of the brian -psych- can be more functional -but study of brain alone = not enough about mind -psychologicl and phenomenicallevels need to be examined aswe Return to smith intro notes -unerstand neuro cognitive operations and consciousness -combo of operations -experiencene‚ naural events‚ cognitive
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Congenital prosopagnosia (CP) refers to the deficit in face processing that is apparent from early childhood in the absence of any underlying neurological basis and in the presence of intact sensory and intellectual function (Behrmann & Avidan‚ 2005). According to recent studies‚ there is growing evidence suggesting that there might be a heredofamilial factor in congenital prosopagnosia. The research report of Thomas Grüter caused a strong reaction in the field of medicine. Innate weakness of a certain
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Anatomy & Physiology Name____________________________ Ch 10.1 SG (Endocrine Glands) 1. What does the endocrine system consist of? 2. What are hormones? 3. What do hormones influence? 4. How are hormones delivered from endocrine glands to their target organs? 5. Two categories of hormones are ________________ and __________________. 6. Why must insulin be injected‚ yet birth control hormones can be taken orally? 7. How does the control of hormone levels work by
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According to Layton (2013)‚ “…the best way to increase the chances of overcoming a hoarding problem is to catch it in its early stages” (para. 19). It is ideal for a loved one of a hoarder to detect the problem. In worse situations‚ it may be a landlord finding the problem. There are many ways for hoarders to get help. Therapy is one option. Frost and Steketee (2010)‚ both professors of psychology‚ did a therapy outcome study for hoarders. After only twelve of their therapy sessions‚ hoarders significantly
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STUDY GUIDE: THE BRAIN 1. Approximately how many neurons are there in the brain? about 100 billion 2. What is a neuron? It is a nerve cell that sends and receives electrical signals over long distances within the body 2b. be able to label its parts. Parts of a neuron. A neuron has three basic parts‚ the cell body‚ the axon‚ and the dendrites. A thin nerve membrane surrounds the entire cell 3. How fast do neurons travel? Neurons
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hormone (TSH) released fromanterior pituitary (primarily) Stimulate prolactin release from anterior pituitary | Dopamine (Prolactin-inhibiting hormone) | DA or PIH | Dopamine neurons of the arcuate nucleus | Inhibit prolactin released from anterior pituitary | Growth hormone-releasing hormone | GHRH | Neuroendocrineneurons of the Arcuate nucleus | Stimulate Growth hormone (GH) release from anterior pituitary | Somatostatin (growth hormone-inhibiting hormone) | SS‚ GHIH‚ or SRIF | Neuroendocrine cells
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Motivation and the Brain Paper Neuroscience and psychology seem to have been working together to try to understand how and why certain behaviors transpire in a person’s personality‚ and what makes or motivates a person to do the things they do. One of the most analyzed wonders that mark motivation‚ the thought developments‚ and the social interaction‚ is the analysis of drug obsession. Through advance forms of scanning the brain with imaging equipment like positron emission tomography (PET) and
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Preventing Murderous Tendencies in Children Harvard clinical psychologist Martha Stout wrote in her book‚ The Sociopath Next Door‚ that “a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people – one in twenty-five – has an often undetected mental disorder… one in twenty-five everyday Americans‚ therefore‚ is secretly a sociopath” (12). Stout‚ along with other psychologists‚ argues that the development of sociopathy is due half to genetics and half to non-genetic influences. We blame serial killers and murderers
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