Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… Neuroscience!
Neural Processing Brain PartsGeneticsNeural SystemsMiscellaneous Bonus Question: 5000 pts
Neural Process: 200 Question: A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons? Answer What is Myelin Sheath!
Neural Process: 400 Question: Neurotransmitter enabling muscle action, learning, and memory? Answer What is Acetecholine (Ach)!
Neural Process: 600 Question: Molecule similar enough in structure to mimic the effect of a neurotransmitter. Answer What is an Agonist!
Neural Process: 800 Question: Excitatory signals minus inhibitory signals and exceeding a minimum intensity? (The minimum amount of stimulation needed for neural firing) Answer What is Threshold!
Neural Process: 1000 Question: Neurotransmitter influencing movement, learning, attention, and emotion? Answer What is Dopamine!
Brain Parts: 200 Question: An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements? Answer What is the Motor Cortex!
Brain Parts: 400 Question: The base of the brainstem controlling heartbeat and breathing? Answer What is the Medulla!
Brain Parts: 600 Question: Influences hunger, thirst, body temperature, and sexual desire? (Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll!) Answer What is the Hypothalamus!
Brain Parts: 800 Question: Visual cortex, angular gyrus, Wernicke’s area, Broca’s area, and motor cortex are involved in what type of processing? Answer What is Language!
Brain Parts: 1000 Question: A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them? Answer What is Split Brain!
Genetics: 200 Question: Complete instructions for making an organism? Answer What is a Genome!
Genetics: 400 Question: The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior? (Study of genetic and environmental influences on behavior?) Answer What is Behavior Genetics!
Genetics: 600 Question: A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes? Answer What is DNA!
Genetics: 800 Question: A random error in gene replication that leads to a change? (Red hair is an example of this) Answer What is Mutation! (Red-headed mutants!)
Genetics: 1000 Question: The extent to which variation among individuals in attributable to their differing genes? Answer What is Heritability! Ex) If the heritability of height is 90%, this DOES NOT mean a woman can attribute 54 inches to genes and the other 6 to environment!
Neural Systems: 200 Question: The body’s speedy, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems? Answer What is Nervous System!
Neural Systems: 400 Question: The sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body? Answer What is Peripheral Nervous System! (PNS)
Neural Systems: 600 Question: The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs? (Hint: it has 2 divisions) Answer What is Autonomic Nervous System!
Neural Systems: 800 Question: System that increases heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, perspirations, and slows digestion? Answer What is Sympathetic Nervous System!
Neural Systems: 1000 Question: System that calms the body, decreasing heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, and perspirations? Answer What is Parasympathetic Nervous System!
Miscellaneous: 200 Question: Theory that claimed bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and character traits? Answer What is Phrenology!
Miscellaneous: 400 Question: A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior? (Think behavioral neuroscientist, neuropsychologist, behavior geneticist, physiological psychologist, or biopsychologist!) Answer What is Biological Psychology!
Miscellaneous: 600 Question: A simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response? Answer What is a Reflex!
Miscellaneous: 800 Question: Endocrine system’s master gland? Answer What is the Pituitary Gland! Under the influence of the hypothalamus, it regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.
Miscellaneous: 1000 Question: A technique for revealing blood flow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans? Answer What is an fMRI! (functional MRI)
Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: Man whose frontal lobe was impaled by a rod damaging his frontal lobe and changed him from affable and soft-spoken to irritable, profane, and dishonest? Answer Drum roll! What is Phineas Gage!
The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question right you win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!
The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question right you win that money If you get it wrong you Loss the money!