You may have heard different types of tissue in the brain being referred to as either “gray matter” or “white matter.” What is it that makes white matter white?

Lisette is writing a paper for her psychology class and the topic is supposed to be the brain stem. Which of the following would be the best title for this paper?

Although Janay’s brain makes up only about ____ percent of her total body weight, it uses about _____ percent of the total oxygen and calories she consumes. Janay’s brain size and resource usage is similar to that of most human beings.

In a classic case study Phineas Gage became emotionally labile and unable to restrain his impulsive behaviors after a severe head injury. Much of his brain damage occurred in his:

Identify one of the subcortical structures of the cerebral hemispheres.

Which part of the brain was referred to by Aristotle as the “little brain?”

The peripheral nervous system is made up of two branches, which include:

When using imaging techniques to study the brain researchers often have to weigh a trade-off between :

Which brain structure plays a key role in regulating endocrine hormones in conjunction with the pituitary gland?

Adolescents often act impulsively. This may be because the prefrontal cortex typically develops slower than the:

Dr. Gregory wants to study how the hippocampus affects memory in rats. In order to do this, she takes a group of rats and ablates the hippocampus in some of them to study what impact this will have. What kind of study is Dr. Gregory performing?

The peripheral nervous system affects __________ while the central nervous system is associated with _______________.

Psychologists best define motivation as:

Which of the following is consistent with the concept behind drive-states?

Imagine that you get to sleep in tomorrow (yay!) and you want to sleep in until 10:00am. At 8:00am, you wake and have to use the bathroom. You ignore it for a little bit and go back to bed. Finally, at 9:30am you can’t hold it anymore and hop out of bed, even though you still want to sleep. This BEST represents which key property of motivation?

Half-way through your 15 mile hike, you realize that you forgot your water bottle. By the time you get back to your car, all you can think about it getting something to drink. You stop at the store, but they are charging $10 for a bottle of water. Even though that price is outrageous, you willingly pay it because you are so thirsty. This is an example of ________.

There are many ways that men and women can differ when it comes to sexual arousal and motivation. For example, in males, sexual arousal is strongly linked to the _______.

Psychologists best define drive states as:

In a “Skinner box” experiments with rats the rats can learn:

In classical conditioning the unconditioned response is:

In Bandura’s famous experiment children observed either an aggressive or a non-aggressive model in a room of toys and a Bobo Doll. When allowed to play with Bobo, researchers observed that children who observed the aggressive model were more aggressive in their own interactions. Research concluded that:

Emily naturally blinks whenever her sister pretends she’s going to poke her in the eye. Her sister, a psychology major, then decides to have a little fun. She pairs the word “psychology” (conditioned stimulus) with pretending to poke Emily in the eye (unconditioned stimulus). Soon, Emily blinks as soon as she hears the word “psychology.” According to the concept of blocking, what would happen in this scenario if Emily’s sister also started snapping her fingers when she said the word psychology?

The “law of effect” states:

What phenomenon describes the possibility of an extinguished response being activated again in a new context?

A child who learns to play kickball by sitting back and watching is engaged in: