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Psych Final: Test 2

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The brain produces a neurotransmitter called _______ to decrease the effects of pain during great bodily distress, such as in an accident.
Endorphin
Damage to the _________ area of the brain appears to prevent the transfer of information from short-term into long-term memory.
Hippocampus
You're looking at a book entitled Your Automatic Nervous System. One chapter titles is really confusing based upon your knowledge of the autonomic nervous system. Which chapter seems to NOT fit your knowledge?
The Autonomic Nervous System: You CAN Control It All
The cerebellum is an important part of the hindbrain that..
Coordinates voluntary movements
As a result of a workplace accident, a person damages the left somatosensory cortex resulting in...
Loss of feeling on the right side of the body
Are you left-brained or right-brained? The best answer is that you are probably...
Constantly using both hemispheres
Place the three memory processes in their correct order with regard to the flow of memory
Encoding, storage, retrieval
The initial kind of memory which fold information in a "raw" form for a few seconds is called...
Sensory memory
Another name for short-term memory is...
Working memory
You are writing an article about short-term memory for the local newspaper. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate title for the article?
Short-Term Memory; Holding Seven Items
An almost unlimited amount of information can be stored in..
Long-term memory
H.M. could learn new skills like mirror-drawings because his brain damage did not affect...
Procedural memory
Personal life experiences, which are examples of ________ are encoded ________ into long-term memory
Episodic memory; Automatically
Actively organizing and making meaningful connections between the information you are learning with information you already know is called...
Elaborative rehearsal
The medulla...
Controls vital reflexes such as respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure
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