Biological Psychology

These lobes are the region where your visual cortex is located.

When a neural message travels down an axon, we call it ____.

To make a neuron fire, enough energy is needed to cross its ____.

Wernicke's area is involved in ____.

Which brain lobe has the speech producing section?

Without your cerebellum you couldn't ___ well.

Which concept to the left is a neurotransmitter that makes you calm & anxiety free?

Hormones are different from neurotransmitters because hormones are released into our ___.

These are the chemical messengers that send signals in-between neurons:

In the morning your ______ helps arouse you to being awake.

The sensory cortex is most critical for our sense of ___.

This brain technology uses radioactive sugar (glucose) to see which brain parts are active.

The hippocampus is essential in processing ____.

The amygdala makes you feel ___.

What slows or speeds up your heart beat?

Put the brain regions in order from evolutionarily oldest to newest.

Your motor cortex allows you to ___.

Your calmly resting on your couch, and the ____ slows your heart and breathing.

Your ____ nervous system is totally encased in bone.

Your car is about to be hit! Which division of the nervous systm speeds your heart & breathing?

The junction between neurons is called a(n) ____.

The somatic nervous system is part of the ____ nervous system.

If you have a large tumor growing in your occipital lobe your _____ might be damaged.

Which part of the neuron sends the message?