Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

parasympathetic nervous system as the brake pedal that slows down the body’s autonomic nervous sys ...

LESIONS Lesioning is the removal or destruction of part of the brain. This is, of course, never done purely ...

All the different methods of studying the brain give researchers different types of information about brain st ...

Figure 3.3. The brain. FOREBRAIN The various areas of the forebrain are very important to psychologists (and ...

There are two arms surrounding the thalamus. These are called the hippocampus. Structures near the end of each ...

functions are not known for each association area, these areas are very active in various human thoughts and ...

involved in producing speech. Damage to Broca’s area might leave us unable to make the muscle ...

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM Another part of human biology relevant to psychology is the endocrine system. This is a s ...

share very similar physical appearances. This physical similarity may cause others to treat them in ...

PRACTICE QUESTIONS Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five su ...

(A) synaptic peptides (B) inhibitory neurotransmitters (C) adrenaline-type exciters (D) excitatory neurotransmitters (E) po ...

are released that cross the synapse to the next cell. (B) A chemical change occurs within the cell, the ch ...

(C) hypothalamus and cerebellum (D) cerebellum and medulla (E) thalamus and motor cortex In most people, which o ...

Sensation and Perception KEY TERMS Transduction Sensory adaptation Sensory habituation (also called perceptual adaptat ...

Kinesthetic sense Absolute threshold Subliminal messages Difference threshold Weber’s law Signal detection theory Top-do ...

cocktail-party phenomenon). These processes are our only way to get information about the ...

lens, the image is flipped upside down and inverted. The focused inverted image projects on the retina, whic ...

Figure 4.1. Cross section of the eye. You might have guessed that this is a simplified version of this ...

TRICHROMATIC THEORY Competing theories exist about how and why we see color. The oldest and ...

move and transduction occurs. The organ of Corti fires, and these impulses are transmitted to the brain via ...