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What is the Endocrine System?
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A collection of glands
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What are the 5 glands of the Endocrine System
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Pituitany, Adreanal, Thyroid, Pancreas, Gonads
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Where is the adreanal gland located and what is it responsidble for?
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Located on top of the kidneys and is responsible for adrenaline (Epinephine)
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Where is the thyroid gland located and what is it responsible for?
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located around the adams apple and is responsible for metabolism.
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What is the pituitary gland (master gland) responsible for?
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Responsible for stimulating and regulating all other glands.
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What does the pancreas gland produce?
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Insulin.
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Where do Gonad glands function?
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Testes and Overies.
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How do hormones get into the system?
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Hormones are produced in the tissues of the glands, secreated in the blood stream, and goes throughout the system.
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What are Neurotransmitters?
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Chemical messangers.
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What are the two major parts of the Nervous System?
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Central and Pereffereal nervous system.
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What is the system of communications that is called electro-chemical network?
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The Nervous System
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What is the Central Nervous System?
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The Brain and Spinal Cord.
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What is the pereffreal nervous system?
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Everything that is not the Central Nervous System. All the nrevs from the central system to the body.
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What are the two components of the pereffrereal nervous system.
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Somatic & Autonamic Nervous Systems
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What is the purpose of the somatic nervous system?
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Takes the information from your 5 senses to the central nervous system. (Senses=CNS=Motor Comand)
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What is the purpose of the Autonamic Nervous System?
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Takes everything from the central nervous system to your smoothe involuntary muscles.
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What are some smoothe involuntary muscles?
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Stomach, Bladder, Organs, Heat etc.
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What is the autonamic system responsible for?
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Heartrate, Temperature, Blood Pressure etc.
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What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for?
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Occours before the parasympathetic that reacts immediately to stress trauma.
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What is the parasympathetic nervous system do?
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Takes longer to relax the body after stress trauma.
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What are Neurons and what is their purpose.
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Nerve cells that are the building block of the nervous system.
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What are sensory neurons?
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(Input) Immediate pick up and dilivery
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What are motor neurons?
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(Output) Resposible for reaction.
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What are inter neurons?
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the connection between the sensory and the motor neurons.
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What are Glial Cells?
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Smaller cells than neurons that act as nerve glue in order to develop and repair neurons.
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What are the 4 features of Neurons?
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Cell Body (Soma), Dendrieds, Axon (Tail), Neuro Transmitters.
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What are the Dendrieds?
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The brach features of the neuron that recieve chemical information.
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What is the Soma?
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The cell body of the neuron that recieves nutrition and puts out waste.
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What is the longest Axon?
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The big toe, extending about 3 feet long.
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What are Ions?
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Electrical charged particals.
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When is a neuron "balanced,"?
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A neuron at rest is balanced.
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What is potential energy?
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When balanced neurons gather energy when at rest.
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What is dopamine responsible for?
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Movement and sleep.
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Which disease means that your body is producing not enough dopamine? Parkinson's Disease or schizophrenia disorder?
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Parkinson's Disease.
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In the action of a neuron, what is the job of the neurotransmitter?
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Has the job of telling other neurons to turn on or off.
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What are endorphines?
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Internal morphine. (Pain Killers)
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What is serotonin responsible for?
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Mood, appetite, sleep, depression, etc.
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What are some ways to increase serotonin in the body?
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Omega 3 and Exercise.
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What is psychology?
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The study of human behavior and the mind.
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Which founding father was concerned with Structuralism; Identifying components witht the conscious mind.
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Wilhem Wundt.
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Which psychologist was interested in personality psychology and invented ways to measure IQ
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Cattrell
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Which psychologist was interested in applied (Law) & industrial psychology.
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Musterberg
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Which psychologist was interested in developmental psychology and was the first to write a book on the psychology of adolescense.
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Hall
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passer quelqu'un (au téléphone) à quelqu'un
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to pass the phone to someone
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Which founding father of psych was most interested in clinical psychology and how the unconscious mind affects behaviors.
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Sigmund Freud
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Which founding father of psych was interested in learning and conditioning of behaviorism
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John Watson
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What are self-report measures?
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reports about feelings or thoughts on a standardized survey.
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What are two types of Behavioral Observation?
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Natural and Lab Observations
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What are aspects of physio measures?
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Heart, Sweat, Brain Patterns, EEG, MRI
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Which early theorist developed his perspective on psychology by basing it on Darwin's survival of the fittest doctrine?
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William James.
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Which perspective looks at perception, learning, and memory?
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Cognitive Psychology
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What are the 5 primary tastes?
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Bitter, Sour, Sweet, Salty, Umami
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What are some of the basic sensations?
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Pressure, Pain, Temperature
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Which fibers send the first pain messages?
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Long Fibers
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