3.3 Flashcards
What is the central nervous system in charge of?
Personality Preferences Memories Conscious Awareness
What does the peripheral nervous system do?
Transmits signals between the brain and the rest of the body
What are the parts of the peripheral nervous system?
1) somatic nervous system: nerves that control skeletal muscles
2) automatic nervous system: regulates the activity of organs and glands
3) sympathetic nervous system: responses that prepare the body for action
4) parasympathetic nervous system: helps maintain homeostatic balance in the presence of change
What are 2 things the brain stem consists of? And where are they located?
Medulla and the pans, located at the bottom of the brain
What is the medulla?
It controls basic body functions such as; breathing, heart rate, sneezing, salivating and vomiting
What is the cerebellum? And where is it located?
Monitors movement, maintaining balance, attention and emotional responses. Located at the base of the brain
What does the midbrain do?
Functions as a relay station between sensory and motor areas
What are he 2 things the central nervous system consists of?
Brain and the spinal cord
What does the forebrain do and where is it located?
Process of emotion, memory, thinking, and reasoning, located above the midbrain
What is the basil ganglia?
In Charge of planned movements, skill learning. Integrating sensory and movement info with brains reward system
What is the I bid system?
Integrated network involved in emotion and memory
What is the amygdala?
Facilitates memory formation for emotional events, mediates fear responses, appears to play a role in recognizing and interpreting emotional stimuli
What is the hippocampus?
Critical for learning and memory in the brain, specifically the form of new memories
What is the thalamus?
Set of nuclei involved in relaying sensory information to different regions of the brain
What is the cerebral cortex?
Wrinkled outer layer of the brain that’s involved in multiple higher functions (thought, language and personality)
