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Unit 2 Part 1 Psychology Bio. Bases || pt. 1

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 22mins

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Class
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1.

A Neuron is what?

a)

A Nerve Cell

b)

A Brain Cell

c)

Another Name for the Brainstem

d)

A Type of Vein

2.

What is an Axon

a)

Part of a Neuron that Receives Messages

b)

Part of a Neuron that protects the Cell Body

c)

Part of a Neuron that Transmits Messages

d)

A type of Study that Tracks one Person over a long period of time

3.

What is the Cell Body of a Neuron?

a)

Junction Between Axon and the Other Cell's Dendrite

b)

Part of the Neuron that Receives messages

c)

Neurons within the Brain and Spinal Chord

d)

Part of a Neuron that Contains the Nucleus

4.

Myelin Sheath is what?

a)

Part of the Neuron that protects the Cell Body

b)

Endocrine System's most influential gland

c)

Biochemical Units of Genetics

d)

Random error in a gene

5.

What is a Dendrite?

a)

Neurotransmitter that makes you feel nice

b)

Neuron's extensions that receive messages

c)

Molecule that inhibits neurotransmitter output

d)

Junction between two Neurons

6.

What are Glial Cells?

a)

Neurons that are in the Spine

b)

Cells that Support and Nourish Neurons

c)

Cells that transmit electrical signals

d)

New Neurons

7.

What is action potential

a)

Body's slow chemical messaging system

b)

The Brain and Spinal cord

c)

Brief electrical signal that travels down a Neuron

d)

Neurons reaction of either firing of not

8.

What is the All or None Response?

a)

Natural response to a stimulus

b)

Process of the Neuron of either firing or not

c)

Reflex-like flinching

d)

Neurotransmitters jumping across the synapse

9.

The level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse

(a)  

10.

What is the synapse?

a)

I can't think of another answer sorry :(

b)

Gap between the Axon terminal and the Dendrite

c)

A type of neurotransmitter that makes you feel happy

d)

Body's electrochemical response system

11.

What is the Refractory Period?

a)

Period in which there are no neurotransmitter being sent across the body

b)

Period of zero brain activity

c)

Brief resting period after a neuronal firing

d)

Period that a neuron is firing

12.

Examples of Neurotransmitters:

a)

Dopamine

b)

Depressant

c)

Opium

d)

Serotonin

13.

What is reuptake?

a)

When neurotransmitters are reabsorbed into the axon

b)

Molecule that increases neural activity

c)

Automatic response to a stimulus

d)

Tissue Destruction

14.

What are endorphins?

a)

Neurotransmitters linked to pain and pleasure

b)

Molecules that speed up Neural activity

c)

Molecules that speed up Brain activity

d)

Neurons going from the Brain to the other limbs

15.

A Generic named person takes something that speeds up their neural activity, what have they just taken?

a)

Alcohol

b)

An agonist

c)

An antagonist

d)

Drugs

16.

What parts of the body are part of the nervous system?

a)

Stomach

b)

Eyes

c)

Fingers

d)

Nose

17.

What does an antagonist do?

a)

Slow down Neurotransmitter activity

b)

Speed up neurotransmitter activity

c)

Control limb movement

d)

Help you learn

18.

What is the central nervous system?

a)

Brain & spinal cord

b)

Nose & Brain

c)

Brain & limbs

d)

Brain & Ears

19.

What does the peripheral nervous system do?

a)

Keep you alive

b)

Connect your arms and legs together

c)

Connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body

d)

Help control impulses

20.

What do Nerves do?

a)

Detect pressure

b)

Connect CNS with muscles, glands, etc.

c)

Support your skeleton

d)

Contract to cause you to move

21.

Sensory (Afferent) Neurons do what?

a)

Carry emotions

b)

Help move your muscles

c)

Detect pain

d)

Carry information about sensory receptors

22.

What are motor (efferent) Neurons?

a)

Nerves that carry information from the brain to muscles and glands

b)

Nerves that carry information from the muscles and glands to the brain

c)

Nerves that help you improve your motor skills

d)

Nerves that help you move

23.

What are interneurons?

a)

Neurons within the brain and spinal cord

b)

Neurons in the arms and legs

c)

Neurons that control thinking

d)

Neurons that are in between bones

24.

What is the Somatic Nervous system?

a)

Nerves that control moving your neck

b)

Nerves that control bones

c)

Nerves that control skeletal muscles

d)

Nerves that control hormone production

25.

What is the Autonomic Nervous system?

a)

Nerves that control glands and internal organs

b)

Nerves that control all muscles and glands

c)

Nerves that control the skeleton's movement

d)

Nerves that help to calm you down

26.

Which of the following is an example of a reflex:

a)

Bob slaps his doctor after he tests his knee reflex

b)

John cries after a sad movie

c)

Joe flinches when his friend pretends to hit him

27.

What does the sympathetic nervous system do?

a)

Makes you feel sympathy

b)

Makes you feel empathy

c)

Mobilizes body energy

d)

Create body's energy

28.

What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

a)

Make you feel sympathy

b)

Conserve body energy

c)

Make body's energy

d)

Release hormones

29.

What is the Endocrine system?

a)

Body's glands

b)

Body's nerves

c)

Body's hearing system

d)

Body's visual system

30.

What are hormones?

a)

Same as antagonists

b)

Something that makes you moody

c)

Teenagers

d)

Body's chemical messengers

31.

Where are the Adrenal glands and what do their hormones affect?

a)

Upper kidneys - arousing the body

b)

Upper kidneys - calming body

c)

Liver - Arousing body

d)

Liver - calming body

32.

Where is the Pituitary gland and what does it affect?

a)

Frontal lobe - growth

b)

Frontal lobe - emotion

c)

Hypothalamus - growth

d)

Hypothalamus - emotion

33.

Why might a lesion be used?

a)

Preventing seizures

b)

Being mean

c)

As a form of punishment

d)

To further psychological research

34.

What does an EEG scan for?

a)

Electrical activity

b)

Full image of the body

c)

Full image of the brain

d)

Signs of damage to the brain

35.

What does a MEG scan for?

a)

Lesions

b)

Electric fields in the brain

c)

Magnet fields in the brain

d)

Abscesses

36.

What image does a CT scan produce?

a)

Slice of the brain using electricity

b)

Slice of the brain using X-rays

c)

Full body image

d)

Colored and detailed full body image

37.

How does a PET scan work?

a)

Following radioactive glucose around the brain

b)

Spinning magnets to form a complete image of the brain

c)

Spinning X-rays to make an image of the brain

38.

What kind of images do MRIs produce?

a)

Images of Brain waves

b)

3d scans

c)

Ones showing brain function

d)

Ones showing brain activity

39.

What does an fMRI show?

a)

Brain function

b)

Brain waves

c)

Brain size

d)

Brain color

40.

What does the medulla do?

a)

Help you see

b)

Regulate digestion

c)

Regulate breathing and the heart

d)

Help you hear

41.

What is the brain stem responsible for?

a)

Sight

b)

Sound

c)

Touch and smell

d)

Basic survival functions

42.

What is the thalamus?

a)

Part of the brain that allows hearing and vision

b)

Brain's sensory control center

c)

Part of the brain the controls glands

d)

Part of the brain that controls movement