Tulane Psych 1000 Test #1 152 Correctly Answered Questions Latest Update

hippocampus {Ans: Strongly involved in memory, essential for the ability to form new memorie}How cones and rods distributed in the retina? {Ans: They are buried deep in the retina lined up like a ladder with each cone interspersed throughout several rods.}What is bottom-up processing? {Ans: Analysis of surrounding features.--analysis that starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing}What is the biopsychosocial approach? {Ans: Behavioral and mental phenomena arise from interaction of biological, psychological, and social influences.-- the lady who killed her five kids believed that her kids would go to hell- she had social stress bc her dad has just died and such}what are the lobes of the cerebral cortex {Ans: -frontal lobe - primary motor and planning/learning -parietal lobe - somatosensory, touch -occipital - vision -temporal - hearing/understanding speech}What are the primary motor and sensory areas? 4 {Ans: Parietal: primary somatosensory cortex responsible for touch, temperature, pain, pressure, and contralateral input. Temporal: primary auditory cortex. Frontal: primary motor cortex responsible for voluntary movement and contralateral control. Occipital: primary visual cortex.}