Ap Psychology Unit 2 Chpt. 2 - The Biology Of The Mind

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Biological Perspective

Back 1

concerned with the links between biology and behavior.

Hint 1

BioBeh.

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Neuron

Back 2

a nerve cell.

Hint 2

Nervous system.

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Dendrites

Back 3

a neuron's bushy, branching extensions that receive and conducts impulses toward the cell body.

Hint 3

Dendrites listen.

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Axon

Back 4

the neuron extension that "passes" messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles and glands.

Hint 4

Think the game "Telephone". What do you do in that game?

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Myelin sheathe

Back 5

a fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one node to the next.

Hint 5

Remember Battojutsu - what does it do to the sword draw?

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Threshold

Back 6

the level of stimulation required to trigger a natural impulse.

Hint 6

Stimulus trigger.

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Depolarization

Back 7

Process in which positively charged ions flood through the axon's membrane.

Hint 7

Posi-ionic flood ax-mem.

Front 8

Agonistic molecules

Back 8

molecules that allow, excites, and mimics.

Hint 8

GO PLAY the GAME SIMON SAYS.

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Antagonist molecules

Back 9

molecules that block and impair.

Hint 9

The villain.

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Acetylcholine (ACh)

Back 10

enables muscle action, learning, and memory.

Hint 10

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one KICK 10,000 times.”
- Bruce Lee

“A wise man can LEARN more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” - Bruce Lee

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth REMEMBERING.”
- Bruce Lee

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Dopamine

Back 11

influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion.

Hint 11

Ex. - Your environment impacts what you do, feel, and are focused on.

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Seratonin

Back 12

affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal.

Hint 12

Ex. - "Work's probably affected him because today he's in a bad mood since he's hungry, drowsy, and sex deprived."

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Norepinephrine

Back 13

helps control alertness and arousal.

Hint 13

assists in holding back on sex drive and sense of guard.

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GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)

Back 14

a major inhibitory neurotransmitter.

Hint 14

restraining nerve transmitter.

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Glutamine

Back 15

a major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in memory.

Hint 15

excited remembering nerve.

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Synapse

Back 16

the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron. The tiny gap at this junction is called the synaptic gap or synaptic cleft.

Hint 16

Synchronization - telephone pole.

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Neurotransmitter

Back 17

chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between neurons.

Hint 17

messenger of the nerves.

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Reuptake

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a neurotransmitter's reabsorption by the sending neuron.

Hint 18

Uptake = Absorbing

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Nervous system

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the body's speedy electrochemical communication network, consisting of all nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous system.

Hint 19

sends signals and consists of p. and c.

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Central nervous system

Back 20

the brain and spinal cord.

Hint 20

you think using this while are held up by this.

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

Back 21

the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body.

Hint 21

you SENSE something from the side of your vision, and quickly MOVE in reaction to it.

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Nerves

Back 22

bundled axons that form neural "cables" connecting the Central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body.

Hint 22

what are the signals sent through and what do they connect to?