Describe in your own words the James-Lange and Cannon-Bard theories of emotion. Include two similarities and two differences between them.
Explain the difference between surface and deep dyslexia. Describe how someone with each of these types of dyslexia would perform on three different tests of reading ability (make sure you describe the tests). Explain why.
Describe (in your own words) the physical-dependence and positive-incentive theories of drug addiction. Which do you think better explains drug addiction? Explain why.
Describe in your own words the five stages of sleep. What are their behavioral and electrophysiological correlates? What do you think is the most important stage of sleep, and why?
Describe in your own words the phenomenon of long-term potentiation. Talk about two of its properties that make it a good model of human memory.
Compare and contrast Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Be sure to comment on the etiology, the disease course, and the symptoms. What can the deficits caused by each disease tell us about the intact functioning of certain areas of the brain?
Propose your own idea for a research design that could be addressed using either positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Choose one of the techniques, and describe why it is the best (or only) way to address your particular research question.
An excitatory synapse on the soma is more effective in evoking action potentials in the postsynaptic neuron than an excitatory synapse on the tip of a dendrite. Why? Don’t forget to include a discussion of neural integration (summation).
You have a hypothesis that learning is the result of structural (anatomical) changes to a particular part of the brain, but you don’t know whether the change will be in the number of synapses, dendrites, or cells. What technique would you use to test each of these hypotheses?
Comparison between Valdez oil spill & the Deep Water Horizon oil spill