Bio

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Study of physiological, evolutionary, and developmental mechanism of behavior and experience

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Biological Psychology

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Deals mostly with brain activity

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Biological Psychology

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The problem of how to address the relation between mental phenomena and neural or physical phenomena in general

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MBP (MIND BRAIN PROBLEM)

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Parts of neuron

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Cell body
Dendrites
Axon
Olygodendrocytes
Myelin sheath
Synapse

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Smaller than neurons have many functions but do not convey information over great distances

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Glia

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Brain composed of cells called?

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Neurons and Glia

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Convey messages to one another and to muscles and glands

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Neurons

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Generally smaller than neurons have many functions but do not convey information over a great distance

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Glia

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Types of neuroglia in CNS

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olygodendrocytes
Ependymal cells
Astrocytes
Microglia

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Types of neuroglia in PNS

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Satellite cells
Schwann cells

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The idea that minds are one type of substance and matter is another

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Dualism

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It is the philisophical idea that one thing in existence are part of the same essential oneness or whole

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Monoism

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4 types of biological explanation of behavior

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Physiological
Ontogenetics
Evolutionary
Functional

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Relates a behavior to an activity of the brain and other organs

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Physiological explanatiom

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Describes how the structures or behaviors develop

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Ontogenetic explanation

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Reconstruct the evolutionary history of the structure or behavior

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Evolutionary explanation

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Describe why the structure or behavior evolved as it did

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Functional explanation

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Are branching fibers that get narrower near their ends

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Dendrites

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Contains the nucleus, ribosomes, and mitochodria

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Cell body

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Thin fiber of constant diameter

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Axon

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are covered with an insulating material called a myelin sheath with interruptions known as nodes of Ranvier.

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Vertebrate Axon

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do not have myelin sheaths.

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Invertebrate axon

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Messages in a neuron develop from disturbances of the resting potential.

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Resting potential of neuron

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If charged ions could flow freely across the membrane, the membrane would depolarize, eliminating the negative potential inside. However, the membrane has selective permeability.

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Forces acting on Sodium and Potassium

Ions

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It is a protein complex, repeatedly transports three sodium ions out of the cell while drawing two potassium ions into it.

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Sodium-Potassium Pump

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Message sent by axons

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Action potential

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The chemical events behind the action potential may seem complex

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Molecular Basis of the Action Potential

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the points of contact between neurons where information is passed from one neuron to the next

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Synapse

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Sherrington found that repeated stimuli within a brief time have a cumulative effect. He referred to this phenomenon

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Temporal Summation

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The neuron that delivers transmission

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Presynaptic/Postsynaptic Neurons

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Synaptic inputs from separate locations combine their effects on a neuron

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Spatial Summation

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which consists of the axons conveying messages from the sense organs to the CNS and from the CNS to the muscles

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somatic nervous system

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controls the heart, intestines, and other organs.

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 autonomic nervous system

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In the late 18000s he anatomically demonstrated a narrow gap separating one neuron from another.

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Ramon Cajal

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In 1906 he  1906, physiologically demonstrated that communication between one neuron and the next differ from communication along a single axon.

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Charles Scott Sherrington

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are regarded as the great pioneers of modern neuroscience, and their nearly simultaneous discoveries supported each other:

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Caja and Sherrington

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The circuit from a sensory neuron to muscle response is called

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Reflex arc

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is the brain and the spinal cord.

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CNS

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connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.

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PNS

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communicates with all the sense organs and muscles except those of the head.

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Spinal cord

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consists of neurons that receive information from and send commands to the heart, intestines, and other organs

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Autonomic Nervous system

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2 types of autonomic nervous system

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Sympathetic Parasympathetic

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a network of nerves that prepare the organs for a burst of vigorous activity, consists of chains of ganglia just to the left and right of the spinal cord.

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Sympathetic Nervous system

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sometimes called the “rest and digest” system, facilitates vegetative, non-emergency responses.

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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The term para means

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