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2 NEXT ROUND $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300The Neuron The Nervous System Brain 1 Brain 2 Pain in your Brain $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 NEXT ROUND

3 In a neuron, the neural impulse travels from the _____ to the ______.Answer

4 Dendrite to Axon (District Attorney)Main Menu

5 These cells are found throughout the nervous system and provide support for neurons.Answer

6 Glial cells Main Menu

7 This fatty tissue greatly increases the speed of neural transmission.Answer

8 Myelin Sheath Main Menu

9 Another term for the neural impulse traveling down the axonAnswer

10 action potential Main Menu

11 Neurotransmitters affect the receiving neuron by entering ______ on the receiving neuron’s ______.Answer

12 Receptor sites DendritesMain Menu

13 These seahorse-shaped structures process facts and experiences into long-term memory.Answer

14 Hippocampi Main Menu

15 Which branch of the peripheral nervous system moves muscles?Answer

16 Somatic (or skeletal) Dancing Skeleton Main Menu

17 Name 4 functions of the parasympathetic nervous systemDaily Double!!! Name 4 functions of the parasympathetic nervous system Answer

18 Pupil constriction, slowing heartbeat, digestion, gallbladder, permits blood flow to genitals, contracts bladder, lowers blood pressure Main Menu

19 In “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” DrIn “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” Dr. P described this as “a convoluted red form with a linear green attachment.” Answer

20 A Rose Main Menu

21 Glands and internal organs are directed by this branch of the peripheral nervous system.Answer

22 Autonomic (sound like automatic)Main Menu

23 It’s the “oldest” part of the brain – and responsible for automatic survival functions.Answer

24 The brainstem (PRoM – pons, reticular formation, medulla)Main Menu

25 It regulates unconscious functions such as the heartbeat and breathing.Answer

26 The medulla Main Menu

27 This small structure in the limbic system regulates hunger, thirst, body temperature, the fight or flight response, and sex. Answer

28 5 Fs – feeding, fighting, fleeing, Fahrenheit, fornicationHypothalamus 5 Fs – feeding, fighting, fleeing, Fahrenheit, fornication Main Menu

29 The relay center for the cortexThe relay center for the cortex. All sensory information (except smell) must pass through here to get to the cerebral cortex. Answer

30 The thalamus Main Menu

31 In “The Disembodied Lady,” the patient enjoyed this, because although she couldn’t feel touch, she could feel warmth. Answer

32 The sun on her skin Main Menu

33 These lobes in the back of the head include the visual cortex, where information from the eyes is processed. Answer

34 Occipital lobes Main Menu

35 This lobe is directly in front of the occipital lobe, and includes the (somato)sensory cortex.Answer

36 Parietal lobes Piranha bites head – he feels it Main Menu

37 Where is Broca’s area and what does it do?Answer

38 Left frontal lobe, moves the mouth, etc. (sounds like “boca”)Main Menu

39 The temporal lobes process information from this sense.Answer

40 Hearing Main Menu

41 Wernicke’s area in the left temporal lobe plays an important role in this.Answer

42 Language comprehension (Wernicke’s – Webster’s)Main Menu

43 The terminal branches of the axon reabsorbing neurotransmitter is called ________Answer

44 Reuptake Main Menu

45 These ions flow into and out of the axon as the action potential moves down the axonAnswer

46 K+ and Na+ Potassium and Sodium Main Menu

47 Neurotransmitters fit into these on the receiving neuron’s dendritesAnswer

48 Receptor sites Main Menu

49 This region of the cortex turns symbols like “D” into the sound “D”Daily Double!!! This region of the cortex turns symbols like “D” into the sound “D” Answer

50 L has an angle and sounds like “L”Angular gyrus – L has an angle and sounds like “L” Main Menu

51 Broca’s area produces speech by “telling” this brain region to move the muscles involved in speaking. Answer

52 Motor cortex Main Menu

53 NEXT ROUND $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600Neuro- transmitters Neuroscience 940 The Endocrine System Brain Scans Hemispheric Lateralization $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 NEXT ROUND

54 Learning, Attention, Memory, Movement, Pleasure, Parkinson’s (low) and Schizophrenia (high)Answer

55 Dopamine – Two Dopey LAMPPSMain Menu

56 Hunger, Arousal, Mood, Sleep – Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lexapro, and Celexa block the reuptake of _______ Answer

57 Serotonin (HAMS) Main Menu

58 Opiates like heroin, codeine, morphine, and hydrocodone (Vicodin) are effective against pain because they are chemically similar to __________ Answer

59 Endorphins Main Menu

60 Alcohol is a depressant because it increases the production of this inhibitory neurotransmitterAnswer

61 Gamma amino butyric acid (GABA)Main Menu

62 A major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory: g _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Answer

63 Glutamate (‘member that?)Main Menu

64 _______ neurons carry information from the senses to the brain; _______ neurons carry information from the brain to move muscles Answer

65 Main Menu Sensory; MotorSensory neurons travel along afferent nerves; Motor neurons travel along efferent nerves S sensory A afferent M motor E efferent Main Menu

66 Curare causes paralysis by blocking receptor sites for _________Answer

67 Acetylcholine (ACh) – muscles acheMain Menu

68 Two ways a neuron firing is similar to firing a gunDaily Double!!! Two ways a neuron firing is similar to firing a gun Answer

69 It’s an all-or-none response/After firing, it must reset before it can fire againMain Menu

70 After a blow to the back of his head, Ray temporarily lost the ability to write with his right hand. Which structure, in which hemisphere, was damaged? Answer

71 Cerebellum, left hemisphereMain Menu

72 The limbic system consists of which 3 structures?Answer

73 Amygdala, Hippocampus, HypothalamusAHH! Main Menu

74 This gland bosses around the other glandsAnswer

75 Pituitary Main Menu

76 They affect metabolismAnswer

77 Thyroid Glands Main Menu

78 These glands produce and release epinephrine into the bloodstream during times of stressAnswer

79 Adrenal Main Menu

80 It regulates the amount of sugar in the bloodAnswer

81 The pancreas Main Menu

82 These are the chemical messengers of the endocrine systemAnswer

83 Hormones Main Menu

84 Answer

85 CAT scan – computerized axial tomographyUses X-rays Main Menu

86 This brain scan can show glucose metabolism over timeAnswer

87 PET – positron emission tomographyMain Menu

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89 EEG -- electroencephalogramMain Menu

90 This brain scan creates the most detailed images, and uses radio waves and magnetic fieldsAnswer

91 MRI – magnetic resonance imagingMain Menu

92 Answer

93 fMRI – functional magnetic resonance imagingMain Menu

94 Facial recognition and 3-D visualizationAnswer

95 Right hemisphere Main Menu

96 Daily Double!!! Logical thinking and math calculation Answer

97 Left hemisphere Main Menu

98 Most emotion processingAnswer

99 Right hemisphere Main Menu

100 Left Visual Field Answer

101 Right hemisphere Main Menu

102 Sorting out parts Answer

103 Left hemisphere Main Menu

104 Easy Genes Environment Nature And Nurture Adoption or Twin Studies Evolutionary Psychology $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 FINAL JEOPARDY

105 Put the following in order from biggest to smallest:Gene Chromosome DNA molecule Answer

106 Chromosome DNA molecule GeneMain Menu

107 Generally speaking, a gene either regulates other genes, or makes these…Answer

108 Proteins Main Menu

109 How many genes are involved in intelligence, height, and happiness?1-2 for each or lots and lots Answer

110 Lots and Lots!! Main Menu

111 It consists of 3 billion pairs of nucleotides and around 22,000 genesAnswer

112 The human genome Main Menu

113 What is the shape of a DNA molecule?Answer

114 Double Helix Main Menu

115 Identical twins who share a placenta are more alike than identical twins who have their own placenta. This is evidence that ________ factors affect how we turn out. Answer

117 The study of how the environment affects the activity of genes is called __________Answer

118 Epigenetics Main Menu

119 Daily Double!!! True or False?On average, siblings who grow up in the same household are as different in their adult personalities as two children randomly chosen from the population. Answer

120 True Main Menu

121 What does it mean to say that the power of parenting is greatest at the extremes?Answer

122 Since most parents love, feed, clothe, and provide shelter for their children, it is only when parents are remarkably bad or good that we observe differences in how children turn out. Main Menu

123 Parents may have more power than they know because by choosing the community they live in, and therefore the school their children attend, they influence their children’s ______. Answer

124 Peers Main Menu

125 Give an example of nature affecting nurture.Answer

126 One example: a very athletic girl (nature) gets recruited by coaches (nurture) and ends up on several sports teams (nurture). As a consequence, she becomes much more outgoing and socially competent. Main Menu

127 What is the primary means by which nurture affects nature?Answer

128 The environment turns genes on and offThe environment turns genes on and off. For example, genes in a boy’s developing brain are switched on by physical abuse and his brain develops in such a way that he doesn’t feel empathy for others. Main Menu

129 Briefly explain how an eating disorder might be explained by nature and nurture.Answer

130 Main Menu

131 If everyone’s environment were exactly the same, what would be the heritability of temperament?Answer

132 100% Main Menu

133 If the heritability of intelligence is found to be 50%, this means that …Answer

134 50% of the variability in IQ in the studied group is statistically attributable to differences in genes. Main Menu

135 Why are the 68 or so pairs of identical twins separated at birth so sought after by researchers?Answer

136 Because they share 100% of their DNA but were raised in different environments.Main Menu

137 We have learned that identical twins are more alike than fraternal twins on intelligence. This is evidence that ____ affect intelligence. Answer

138 Nature, or genes Main Menu

139 How genetically similar are fraternal twins?Answer

140 They share on average 50% of their genes, just like ordinary siblings do.Main Menu

141 Briefly explain how you might do an adoption study to investigate whether genes affect criminal behavior. Answer

142 If the first correlation is higher, …Correlate the criminality of men with their biological father’s criminality and with their adoptive father’s criminality. If the first correlation is higher, … Main Menu

143 Why should we expect fraternal twins of the same gender to be somewhat more alike than ordinary siblings of the same gender? Answer

144 Because they shared a prenatal environment and grow up with other similar environmental influences because they are the same age. Main Menu

145 Explain, from the evolutionary perspective, why we might be more afraid of spiders and snakes than the more dangerous cars and guns. Answer

146 We are genetically-predisposed to fear things that were dangerous in the ancestral environment, but not recent technologies. We have “stone age brains in a silicon age world.” Main Menu

147 Some point to our evolutionary past as one cause of our obesity problem. Explain…Answer

148 We are hard-wired to like and eat a lot of high-fat, high-sugar, and/or salty food whenever it’s available, which wasn’t often in the ancestral environment. Main Menu

149 Why do evolutionary biologists argue that it makes sense that female mammals are more choosy about mates than males? Answer

150 Because for females, sexual behavior is more consequential, and the maximum number of potential offspring is lower than for males. The optimal strategy is to strive for quality of offspring, not quantity. Sometimes though… Main Menu

151 Daily Double!!! Assume there are genes that cause lung cancer and heart disease in people who smoke (interaction of nature and nurture). Explain why it’s unlikely that these genes would necessarily become less common in the population because of natural selection. Answer

152 Because heart disease and lung cancer strike people AFTER their reproductive years in the vast majority of cases. Main Menu

153 Is the evolutionary perspective most helpful in understanding why people across the world are similar, or why they are different? Answer

154 Similar, because qualities like maternal love or jealous rage appear in all cultures, and are therefore very likely to flow from our shared genetics. Main Menu

155 The part of the brainstem that regulates attention and alertnessFinal Jeopardy The part of the brainstem that regulates attention and alertness ANSWER

156 Reticular formation