Psychology Review: "the Brain"

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Part of the lower brain that coordinates and organizes bodily movements for balance and accuracy:

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Cerebellum

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Division of the cerebral cortex that interprets visual information:

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Occipital Lobe

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Part of the frontal lobe that engages in elaborate associations or mental connections; it plays and important part in the integrating personality and in forming complex thoughts:

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Frontal Association Area

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Part of the frontal lobe that enables us to re-experience personal past events:

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Prefrontal Area

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Neurotransmitter that regulates basic bodily processes such as movement:

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Acetylcholine

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One half of the cerebral cortex; each half controls the opposite side of the body:

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Hemisphere

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Portiion of brain that regulates basic needs and emotions such as pleasure, fear, rage, sexuality:

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Hypothalamus

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The alertness control center of the brain that regulates the activity level of the body; also called the reticular formation:

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Reticular Activating System

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A depression marking off an area of the cerebral cortex:

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Fissure

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All the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord:

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Part of the brain common to animals and humans that regulates basic functons such as breathing:

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Lower Brain

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Band running down the side of the frontal lobe that controls all bodily movements (called motor functions):

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Motor Strip

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A large bundle of nerve fibers that transfer information from one half of the cerebral cortex to the other:

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Corpus Collosum

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The outermost layer of the brain; controls high-level mental processes such as thought:

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Cerebral Cortex

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A division of the autonomic nervous system that energizes and prepares for emergencies:

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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A nerve cell; neurons transmit electrical and chemical information (via neurotransmitters) throught the body:

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Neurons

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An automatic behavior fo the body involving movement that is activated through the spinal cord without use of the higher brain:

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Reflex

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Division of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory strip:

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Parietal Lobe

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Sex glans that make sperm or eggs for reproduction:

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Gonads

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A divison of the peripheral nervous system containing sensory and motor nerves:

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Somatic Neurosystem

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Units of the body that containthe hormones:

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Glands

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Chemical that prepares the body for an emergency activity by increasing blood pressure, breathing rate, and energy level:

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Adrenaline

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Glands that cause excitement in order to prepare the body for an emergency or for some important activity:

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Ardenal

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Chemical regulators that control bodily processes such as emotional responses, growth, and sexuality:

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Hormones

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Division of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and some speech functions:

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Temporal Lobe

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The automatic control system of the body; regulates breathing, heart rate, digestion, and so on:

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Autonomic Nervous System

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System that includes all the glands and their chemical messages taken together:

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Endrocine System

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The hormone that regulates the growth process; it is controlled by the pituitary gland:

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Growth Hormone

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The brain and spinal cord:

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Centeral Nervous System

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The speed at which the body operates or the speed at chich it uses up energy:

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Metabolism

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Bubble like containers of neurotransmitters, located at the ends of axons:

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Vesicles

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The female sex hormone:

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Estrogen

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A division of the autonomic nervous system that conserves bodily activity; works in opposition to the sympathetic system to calm us down:

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

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The master gland; it activates other glands and controls the growth hormone:

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Pituitary

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Gland that regulates speed of bodily processes (metabolism):

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Thyroid

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The male sex hormone:

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Androgyn

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Part of the body that functions as an automatic "brain" in its own right and as a relay station for impulses to and from the higher brain:

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Spinal Cords

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Part of the body that functions as an automatic "brain" in its own right and as a relay station for impulses to and from the higher brain:

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Spinal Cords

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Band running down the side of the parietal lobe that registers and provides all sensation:

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Sensory Strip

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Major division of the cerebral cortex:

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Lobe

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Part of the lower brain that functions primarily as a central relay station for incoming and outgoing messages from the body to the brain and the brain to the body:

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Thalamus

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Lower brain area whose structures are involved in basic emotions and memory:

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Limbic System

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Chemicals in the endings of neurons that send information across synapses:

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Neurotransmitters

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Part or the neuron that carries messages away from the nerve cell to dendrites on another nerve cell:

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Dendrite

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Part of the neuron that carries messages away form the nerve cell to dendrites on another nerve cell:

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Axon

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Division of the cerebral cortex that contains the motor strip, prefrontal area, and frontal association area:

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Frontal Lobe

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Limbic system structure involved in emotion, especially aggression:

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Amygdala

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Neurotransmitter involved in the control of bodily movements:

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Dopamine

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Control; either the right or left hemisphere of the cerbral cortex is dominant in each individual; hence, on e of them is preferred and controls the majority of actions performed:

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Dominance

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The junction point of two or more neurons; a connection is made by neaurotransmitters:

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Synapse

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Neurotransmitters that relieve pain andincrease our sense of well-being:

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Endorphins

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Limbic system sturcture involved in forming memories:

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Hippocampus