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28 Cards in this Set
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Central Nervous System
Peripheral Nervous System |
Brain and spinal cord
All the nerves of the body |
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Somatic Nervous System
Autonomic Nervous System |
Skeletal muscle movement
Self-regulated organ movements |
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Sympathetic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Nervous System |
Excitatory
Calming |
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Pituitary gland
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Controls growth and development
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Neuron
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Cells of the nervous system, transmit electrical impulses
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Glial cells
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Cells of the nervous system that provide support, metabolic functions
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Action potential
Resting potential |
Electrical signals passed by neurons
Measure of the charge of a neuron at rest |
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Dopamine
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Reward, learning, memory
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Acetylcholine
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Motor controls
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GABA
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Inhibitory
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Glutamate
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Excitory
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EEG
TMS PET MRI |
Measures brainwaves
Electrical coil on top of head Radioactive liquid used to map bloodflow in brain Uses radiowaves, magnetic field, provides 3D images |
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Hindbrain
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Basic life processes, brain stem, cerebellum
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Midbrain
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Relay center, thalamus
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Forebrain
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Motivation, emotion, memory
Hypothalamus, amygdala, cerebrum |
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Parietal
Temporal Occipital Frontal |
Pressure, pain, touch, temperature
Hearing, memory, perception, emotion Vision Short term memory, higher-order thinking, speech |
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Sensation
Perception |
Activation of receptors in sense organs
Mental recognition of a sensory stimulus |
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Sensory receptors
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Specialized neurons that are stimulated by different kinds of energy
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Sensory thresholds
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Just noticeable differences
Absolute threshold |
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Cornea
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Protects the eye
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Lens
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focuses on objects by changing shape
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Pupil
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Aperture through which light reaches retina
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Iris
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Controls amount of light that gets into eye
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Retina
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Neural tissue that lines the back, contains visual receptors (Rods and Cones)
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Rods
Cones |
Night vision
Color, details |
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Proximity
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Tendency to see objects close together as part of the same group
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Similarity
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Tendency to see objects which look similar as part of the same grouping
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Closure
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Tendency to fill in incomplete images
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