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28 Cards in this Set
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Biological Pyschology
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Study of links between biology and behavior.
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Neuron
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Nerve Cell, the basic building block of the nervous system.
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Dendrites
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End of the neuron that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
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Axon
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The neuron extension that passes messages to other neurons or to muscles and glands
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Myelin Sheath
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Fatty layer around the axon of some neurons that vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one node to the next.
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Threshold
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The level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse.
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Action Potential
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A neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
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Neural Communication
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1. Action Potential reaches synapse
2. Action potential reaches axon terminal, neurotransmitters are released and attach to receptor sites. 3. The sending neuron reabsorbs excess neurotransmitters (Reuptake). |
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Endorphins
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Natural Opiate like neuraltransmitters linked to pain control and pleasure.
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Nerves
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Bundles of axons that form cables the CNS with muscles glands organs and senses.
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Reflexes
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Automatic response to stimuli
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Endocrine System
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Slow chemical communication system.
Glands secrete hormones which then effect other tissues. |
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Pituitary Gland
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Controlled by hypothalamus and controls growth
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Brainstem
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Oldest, most inner part of the brain. Crossover from brain to nervous system.
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Cerebellum
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Back bottom of the brain. Nonverbal learning and memory. Voluntary movement, emotional regulation, time sound and texture discrimination.
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Thalamus
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Top of the brainstem that is the sensory switchboard for all except smell.
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Limbic System: Hypothalamus
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Control Maintenance function i.e. eating.
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Limbic System: Hippocampus
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Linked to memory
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Limbic System: Amygdala
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Linked to emotion
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Cerebrum
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2 large hemispheres that make up 85% of brain weight.
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Cerebral Cortex: Frontal Lobe
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Language thought memory motor control.
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Cerebral Cortex: Parietal Lobe
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Top. Touch, vision, attention.
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Cerebral Cortex: Temporal Lobe
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SIde. Language, hearing, memory, form perception.
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Cerebral Cortex: Occipital Lobe
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Back. Visual processing.
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Cerebral Cortex: Motor/Sensory
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Located back to back with say arm touching arm.
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Association Areas
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Areas of the brain devoted to higher memory processing.
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Lateralization
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Hemispheric Specialization of the brain
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Corpus Collasum
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Band of axon fibers that connect the two parts of the brain
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