Yale PSYC 110 Practice Exam Questions & Answers.
Phineas Gage - CORRECT ANSWER Metal rod through left cheekbone and brain, could still speak, read, see. Became angry, no self-control
Materialism - CORRECT ANSWER Brain is the source of mental life
Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER Material bodies, b...
Yale PSYC 110 Practice Exam Questions
& Answers.
Phineas Gage - CORRECT ANSWER Metal rod through left cheekbone and brain, could still speak, read,
see. Became angry, no self-control
Materialism - CORRECT ANSWER Brain is the source of mental life
Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER Material bodies, but minds are non-material and non-physical
Dendrites - CORRECT ANSWER Get info from other neurons
Axons - CORRECT ANSWER Send info to other neurons
Sensory neurons - CORRECT ANSWER Take in info from the outside
Motor neurons - CORRECT ANSWER Connect to the muscles
Interneurons - CORRECT ANSWER Connect neurons
Excitatory neurotransmitter chemicals - CORRECT ANSWER Increase the potential of other neurons firing
Inhibitory neurotransmitter chemicals - CORRECT ANSWER Decrease the potential of other neurons
firing
Agonist drugs - CORRECT ANSWER Increase neurotransmitters, stop clean up
Nativism - CORRECT ANSWER The theory that all human knowledge is innate rather than acquired.
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