Here are some suggestions to guide your studying for our first exam:
You should know the basic information on the field of
biopsychology presented in class, including the subareas and
related careers
(discussed in class
(http://www.uni.edu/walsh/biopsychK.html)
You should be familiar with the research approaches described in
4.3 and in class and in the Methods related links in the syllabus.
Our little genetics quiz and genetics family assignment "tested"
your understanding of Mendelian genetics, but the other topics in
the genetics module (discussed in class and in Module 1.2
will be on the test. This includes:
structure of DNA our genetics videos
sex-linked genes
sex-limited genes
heritability
the genetics of and characteristics of the 2 disorders we covered
(PKU and Huntington's disease and the extra pages assigned on this
topic)
nature-nurture (heredity-environment) interaction
epigenetics and the epigenome
evolution as a change in the frequency of various gene alleles in
a population over time - can you give an example?
fitness to the current environment and natural selection
artificial selection or selective breeding
The "neuroanatomy notes" assignment is essentially the studylist
for 4.1 and 4.2:
Brain Game Notes - What Are the Parts of Your Nervous System, Where Are They, and What Do They Do? What happens if a particular brain area is damaged? (full sentence definitions not needed - be concise; small diagrams may help you remember where things are)
central nervous system (CNS):
peripheral nervous system (PNS):
somatic nervous system:
autonomic nervous system (ANS):
sympathetic division:
parasympathetic
division:
spinal cord
dorsal roots and ganglia
ventral roots
spinal cord white matter vs gray matter
brainstem
hindbrain
medulla
pons
reticular formation
cerebellum
midbrain
tectum
superior
colliculi
inferior
colliculi)
tegmentum
substantia nigra
periaqueductal gray
forebrain:
diencephalon
thalamus
sensory relay nuclei
hypothalamus
pituitary gland
basal ganglia (caudate, putamen, globus
pallidus)
limbic system
hippocampus
amygdala
basal forebrain
nucleus basalis
nucleus accumbens
cerebral hemispheres:
corpus callosum:
cerebral cortex
frontal lobe:
primary
motor cortex ( precentral gyrus) & its organization:
Broca's area
prefrontal
cortex
parietal lobe:
primary
somatosensory
cortex (postcentral gyrus) & its organization:
temporal lobe:
primary auditory cortex (superior temporal gyrus)::
Wernicke's area
occipital lobe:
primary
visual
cortex:
ventricles
hydrocephalus
meninges
menigitis
Other terms:
dorsal vs ventral
medial vs lateral
gray matter vs white matter