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26 Cards in this Set
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Contain the motor cortex |
Frontal lobes |
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Controls our ability with music including rhythm |
Right temporal lobe |
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Enables us to process language |
Left temporal lobe |
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Process visual input |
Occipital lobes |
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Receives sensation of touch, body position, hearing |
Parietal lobes |
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Process visual input |
Occipital lobe |
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Master gland |
Pituitary |
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Controls the development of male sexual characteristics |
The testes |
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Controls the development of female sexual characteristics |
The ovaries |
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Glands that control the flight or flight reaponse |
Sympathetic system (adrenal glands) |
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Involved with metabolism physical growth and development |
Thyriod |
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Brain and spinal cord |
Central nervous system |
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Nervous system outside central nervous system |
Peripheral nervous system |
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Sends communications between the central nervous system and the internal organs and glands- we cannot control it |
Autonomic nervous system |
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Sends messages to internal organs and glands that help us to respond to stressful and emergency situation |
Sympathetic nervous system |
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Monitors routine operations of the internal organs and returns the body to calmer functioning after arousal |
Parasympathetic system |
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Branches fibre that extends outward from the main cell body and carries information into the neuron- it receives input |
Dendrites |
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Part of the neuron that is also called the cell body |
Soma |
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Extended fibre in a neuron that conducts information from the cell body to the terminal buttons |
Axon |
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The microscopic gap that serves as a communications link between neurons |
Synapse |
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Chemical messengers that relay neural messages across the synapse |
Neurotransmitters |
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A component of the limbic system, involved in establishing long term memories |
Hippocampus |
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A limbic system structure involved in memory and emotion, particularly in aggression |
Amygdala |
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The little brain attached to the brain stem. It is responsible for coordinated movements |
Cerebellum |
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The band of nerve fibres that connects the two cerebral hemispheres |
Corpus callosum |
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The brain stem structure that controls breathing and heart rate |
Medulla |
