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all the nerve processes and neurons outside the CNS connect to |
sensory receptors muscles internal organs |
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What is the Peripheral Nervous System? |
Neurons and nerve processes outside the CNS Sensory connections to receptors in the skin Motor connections to body muscles Sensory and motor connections to internal body organs |
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What does the Somatic division do? |
Conveys sensory information to the CNS and motor information from the CNS to the muscles |
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What does the Autonomic division do? |
enables the CNS to govern the workings of the maternal organs (ex: heartbeat, respiration) |
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Who is Irenaus Eibesfeld? |
Behaviour guy-What is behaviour? |
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What is Mentalism? |
An explanation of the behaviour as a function of the nonmaterial mind |
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Who believed that mind and body were separate? |
Artistotle |
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Who believed in Dualism? (both a nonmaterial mind and a material body contribute to behaviour?) |
Rene Descartes |
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Where is the mind located? |
The Pineal Gland (sits beside ventricles with fluid) |
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Is fluid pumped from the ventricles to control movement? |
NO |
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What is Materialism and WHO was it related too? |
A behaviour that can be explained as a function of the NVS without explanitory recourse to the mind Related to: Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin |
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Who is associated with natural selection? |
Charles Darwin (explained differential success in the reproduction of different characteristics 'phenotypes' results from the interaction of organisms with their environment) |
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What is the study of differences in gene expression related to environment and experience? |
Epigentics (they do NOT change your genes, but they do influence how your genes express the traits you've inherited from your parents) |
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What contains species with muscles and the NVS? |
ONLY animalia |
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Where did brain cells, NVS and muscles first evolve? |
In animals |
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What is the simple NVS with sensory and motor neurons called? |
The Nerve Net |
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What is Ganglia? |
structures that resemble and function somewhat like a brain |
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What displays the greatest degree of encephalization? |
The chordate phylum (aka, humans have the largest brain relative to body size) |
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Nervous systems vary widely among chordates, but all have: |
Bilaterally symmetrical and segmented things |
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What is similar to humans and our common ancestor? |
Hominids (mix between humans and chimpanzee)-->primates that walk upright; includes all forms of humans, living and extinct |
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What is the name of our distant ancestor? |
Australopithecus |
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2 million years ago in Africa and made simple stone tools? |
Homo habilis (handy human) |
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Coexisted with other hommid sapiens |
homo sapiens |
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Jerison (1973)-->Relating brain size and behaviour |
Principle of proper mass (species exhibiting more complex behaviours will possess relatively larger brains)
Jerison developed an index of brain size to allow comparisons among different species aka USED BODY SIZE TO PREDICT BRAIN SIZE |
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What is encephalization Quotient? |
It's the measure of brain size obtained from the ratio of actual brain size to the expected brain size for an animal of a particular body size
Homo sapiens have the largest EQ |
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More sophisticated tools than H. Habilis (1.6 millionyears ago in Asia and Russia) |
Homo erectus (upright human) |
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What is Neoteny? |
Rate of maturation is slowed Allows more brain cells to be produced adults retain some infant characteristics newly evolved species resemble the young of their common ancestors |
