AP Psychology Unit 3- Stevenson

The system that sends messages with hormones is

• the nervous system

• the endocrine system

• the somatic system

• the peripheral system

part of autonomic nervous, calms you down

• Parasympathetic 
• sympathetic 

regulates blood sugar, secreting insulin

• pancrease
• gall bladder

The nineteenth-century theory that bumps on the skull reveal a person's abilities and traits is called 

• evolutionary psychology.
• behavior genetics.
• phrenology.
• eugenics. 

Plasticity is

• the flexibility of memory

• the mold-able nature of human behavior

• how much one's thought process can change

• the brain's capacity for modification

The auditory cortex is in the

• Frontal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

A reflex is

• an automatic response to a sensory stimulus

• an purposefully carried out action to a minor event

• a complex response governed by fear

• something that involves only muscles

The pituitary gland

• controlled only by itself

• the master gland of the brain

• the master gland of growth and control for endocrine glands

• is influenced by the hypothalamus

The cerebral cortex

• is a thick mass of brain tissue located in the old brain

• is a thin layer of glial cells covering the occipital lobe

• is a thin web of neural cells over the cerebral hemispheres

• is one of the cortexes in the frontal lobe

Emotions like fear and aggression are associated with

• only the amygdala

• only the limbic system

• neither the limbic system nor the amygdala

• both the limbic system and the amygala