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Jeopardy Neural Systems I Hodge- Podge The Brain I Neural Systems II The Brain II Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Round One
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$100 Question These are the bushy branching extensions of a neuron that receive messages.
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$100 Answer Dendrites
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$200 Question This is a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
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$200 Answer Action Potential
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$300 Question Chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gaps between neurons.
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$300 Answer neurotransmitters
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$400 Question This neurotransmitter regulates mood and undersupply of it is linked to depression.
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$400 Answer Serotonin
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$500 Question This neurotransmitter is our body’s natural opiates that are released in response to pain.
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$500 Answer endorphins
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$100 Question This component of the nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
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$100 Answer Central Nervous System (CNS)
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$200 Question These are the three types of neurons.
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$200 Answer Motor Neurons Sensory Neurons Interneurons
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$300 Question This branch of the peripheral nervous system is A-U-T-O-M-A-T-I-C and controls heartbeat, digestion, and glandular activity
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$300 Answer autonomic nervous
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$400 Question This is a simple, automatic, inborn response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response.
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$400 Answer Reflex
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$500 Question This system will kick in if I see a TIGER!
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$500 Answer Sympathetic Nervous System
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$100 Question This technique for studying the brain amplifies and records the waves of electrical activity that sweeps across the brain.
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$100 Answer Electroencephalogram (EEG)
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$200 Question This brain structure plays an important role in controlling arousal.
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$200 Answer Reticular Formation
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$300 Question This brain structure directs maintenance activities and helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.
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$300 Answer Hypothalamus
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$400 Question These are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and their functions.
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$400 Answer Frontal- Judgment /Motor Cortex Parietal- Sensory Cortex Occipital- Vision Temporal- Auditory
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$500 Question This is the term for when you have an impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage.
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$500 Answer Aphasia
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$100 Question Because aruna dyskensia is so rare psychologist employ this method research to study it.
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$100 Answer Case Study
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$200 Question These are the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organisms chromosomes.
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$200 Answer Genome
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$300 Question A psychologist who wanted to study dating behavior by observing how people behaved at a bar would be using this form of research.
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$300 Answer Naturalistic Observation
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$400 Question Psychologists have found that the more TV is on in the homes of young children, the less time they spend reading. This correlation would be in this direction.
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$400 Answer This is a negative correlation
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$500 Question In an experimental procedure this technique is used to minimize the preexisting differences between those assigned into different groups.
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$500 Answer Random Assignment
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$100 Question These are areas of the cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions.
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$100 Answer Association Areas
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$200 Question This area of the brain controls language expression by directing the muscle movements involved in speech.
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$200 Answer Broca’s Area
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$300 Question This is the brain’s capacity for modification, as evident in brain reorganization following damage.
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$300 Answer Plasticity
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$400 Question The Left-Hemisphere specializes primarily in this:
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$400 Answer Language, mathematics, logic, and reason.
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$500 Question These are the four parts of the brainstem and their functions.
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$500 Answer 1. Medulla- heartbeat/breathing 2.Pons- sleeping/daydreaming 3.RF- arousal/alertness 4.Thalamus- sensory “switchboard”
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Final Jeopardy Answer
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