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