Download Physiological Psychology Exam I Study Guide: Neurons, Neuroanatomy, and Neurophysiology - and more Study notes Psychology of Human Development in PDF only on Docsity! 1 PSYCHOLOGY 3306 - PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY - EXAM I STUDY GUIDE Structure of Neurons (10 questions) 1. What is does a cell’s membrane consists of? 2. What function do nerve terminals perform? 3. What and where are Schwann cells? 4. What are the classifications of different neuronal shapes? 5. What is the purpose of myelin? 6. What do nerve terminals synapse onto? 7. What are nodes of Ranvier? 8. What is hydrocephalus and how is it produced? 9. What are the types of contacts a neuron’s terminal can make with another neuron? 10. Which glia cell noted principally acts to destroy microbes and debris? Neuroanatomy (10 questions) 11. What are the names of the arteries that supply blood to the rostral and caudal poles of the brain? 12. What processes are the frontal, parietal, temporal, somatosensory, and motor cortex involved with? 13. What happens when you damage a primary area of cortex? 14. Know the neuroaxis. 15. Know the names of the individual segments of the spinal cord. 16. What do convolutions (gyri and sulci) of the cerebral cortex achieve? 17. Where is cerebrospinal fluid manufactured? 18. What does white matter consists of? 19. Where in the brain are postural reflexes and regulation of physiological homeostasis (respiration and heart rate) located? 20. What structures comprise the limbic system? Neurophysiology and Synaptic Transmission (15 questions) 21. What are the five biochemical steps in synaptic transmission? 22. What initiates neurotransmitter release? 23. What ion channel is involved specifically with vesicle’s fusing with the cell membrane? 24. What mechanisms terminate the activity of a transmitter in the synaptic cleft? 25. What is temporal and spatial summation? 26. What are the effects of a neurotransmitter upon a neuronal cell’s membrane potential? 27. What is relative and absolute refractoriness? 28. What ion mechanism underlies the resting membrane potential across a neuronal cell? 29. What is the axon hillock? 30. What is the all-or-none law? 31. What ion channels underlie IPSP’s? 32. What do transmitter receptors do on neuronal cells and dendrites? 33. What ion channels underlie EPSP’s? 34. What is the distribution of ions across mammalian neuronal cell membranes? 35. What is the difference between the absolute refractory period and relative refractory period?
