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6 Cards in this Set
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Parasympathetic Nervous System
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calms the nervous system down from the arousal of fight or flight responses
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Pons
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involved in carrying sensory information to the brain and motor control of the facial muscles, tongue, eyes, and ears. Also involved in the initiation of sleep and dreaming
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Medulla
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involved in respiration, swallowing, blood circulation, sneezing, and head orientation
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Hippocampus
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responsible for the processing of work- ing memories and long-term memories formation
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Amygdala
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serves a role in learning to associate stimuli with basic emotional responses to fear, such as aggres- sion or retreat
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Limbic Cortex
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involved in generating emotions that relate to survival, like fear and anger, as well as feel- ings of pleasure related to such things as eating and sex
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