AP PSYCHOLOGY: UNIT 3 BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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phrenology Correct Answer a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties who proposed that phrenology, studying bumps on the skull, could reveal a... person's mental abilities and character traits? Correct Answer Franz gall biological psychology Correct Answer the scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, and hormonal) and psychological processes neuron Correct Answer a nerve cell, the basic building block of the nervous system dendrites Correct Answer a neuron's bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body axon Correct Answer the neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands myelin sheath Correct Answer a fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one sausage-like node to the next action potential Correct Answer a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon refractory period Correct Answer a period of inactivity after a neuron has fired threshold Correct Answer the level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse all-or-none response Correct Answer a neuron's reaction of either firing (with a full-strength response) or not firing [Show More]

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