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33 Cards in this Set
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What is a neuron?
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Cells within our bodies that are responsiblie for receiving, moving, and processing informaiton
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Where are neuron's located?
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Located throughout our body and make up the nervous system and the brain
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What does a neuron do?
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Carry information to and from the spinal cord and brain
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What are afferent neurons?
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Neurons that send messages to the spinal cord and brain; sensory neurons
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What are Efferent neurons?
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Neurons that send messages from the brain and spinal cord to other structures in the body; motor neurons
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What are nicknamed "The Loop"
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Interneurons, they are nerurons that connect sensory neurons to motor neurons
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Waht is The Basic Structure of a Neuron
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The cell body, the axon, and the dendrites
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What are dendrites?
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Dendrites recieve information from the surrounding cells and carry the information toward the celll body
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What are axons?
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Carry information away from the cell body to the terminals in order to transmit the information across the synapse.
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What is a synapse?
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A snynapse is very small. Neurotransmitters released by the axon terminals cross the synapse to stimuate receptors on the cell body or the dendrites of another neuron
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What are neurotransmitter?
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A neurotransmitter is a chemical substance that is stored within a synaptic vesicle in the axon terminal vesicles and that when relased moves across the synaptic space and binds to a recepter site on an adjacent cell
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What is pharmacology?
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pharmacology is the study of how drugs affect the body
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What is psychopharmacology?
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psychopharmacology is the study of how drugs affect behavior
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What makes up the Peripherial Nervous System
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Somantic System and Autonomic
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What is the Somantic System?
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Controls voluntary muscles
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What is Autonomic System?
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controls the involuntary muscles
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What does the Sympathtic System preapre the body to do?
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Prepares the body to use energy
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What does the Parasympathetic system do?
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works to conserve enegry
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What does the Frontal Lobe do?
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Memory, movement, speech and lanuage production
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What does the Parietal Lobe do?
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Sense of touch and body position
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What does the Occipital Lobe do?
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Visual Sensing
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What does the Temporal lobe do?
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Hearing, and some visual information processing
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What happens if the Broca's area is damanged
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Broca's Aphasia, or disrupted speech
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Damange to the Wernicke's area causes what?
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Unable to reconginze the spoken word
Unable to understand the meaning of words Unable to convert thoughts into words |
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Results of damange to the right hemisphere
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-Problems with verbal communications
-langauge control -attention deficits -blindness to objects in the left visual field |
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The endocrine system consits of...
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Consists of ductless endocrine glands that create and release hormones into the bloodstream
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The pituitary gland is what?
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The pituitary gland is the master gland
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Genetics is the study of what?
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Heredity
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What is Nature vs. Nurure
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Nature and nurture work together and both contribute their infulence
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Our genese are segments of...
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DNA that are the basic units of heredity
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What is a Genotype?
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Genetic Makeup
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What is a phenotype?
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A phenotype is any observable characteristic or trait of an organism
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What does the branch of evolutionary Psychologysuggest?
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Suggests that all species are subject to the process of biological evolution throughtout their history
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