AP Psych Biology Vocabulary Review

Front

Ximena has been suffering from severe bouts of depression for the past several years. Her doctor suggests that some medications designed to impact a specific neurotransmitter might be helpful for her. Which neurotransmitter would be the most likely target of this medication?

Back

Serotonin

Front

Young Keith was in a very bad accident, where specific parts of his brain were damaged. His neurologists noted that over the course of the next several months, other parts of his brain began to compensate for these deficits, and he was not as impaired as they had expected. Keith’s case demonstrates the concept of _______________.

Back

neuroplasticity

Front

When people are walking, raising their hands in class or smelling a flower, they are using the:

Back

somatic nervous system

Front

Which sense is the only one that is NOT processed through the thalamus? (Options: taste, hearing, touch, smell)

Back

smell

Front

Melissa is walking around barefoot and suddenly steps on a sharp nail. She feels the pain and immediately pulls her foot off the ground away from the nail. Which is true?

Back

Sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons in the spinal cord would be activated

Front

The saclike structures that are found at the end of a neuron's axon and that contain neurotransmitters are called:

Back

synaptic vesicles.

Front

The job of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system is to:

Back

get the body ready to deal with stress.

Front

When a neuron is at rest, the ions inside the cell are mostly _______ and the ions outside the cell are mostly _______.

Back

negatively charged; positively charged

Front

The brain is primarily comprised of two different kinds of cells. They are neurons and:

Back

glial cells

Front

Which area of the brain influences sleep and dreaming? Options: pons, reticular formation, medulla, cerebellum

Back

pons