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Biological Influences Flashcards

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The nervous system

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A communication system that controls all parts of the body

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Central nervous system

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The integration and control system of the body

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Brain responsibilities?

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  • cognition, mental processes + bodily functions
  • registers stimuli
  • interprets
  • responds w/ effector cells
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Sympathetic NS

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  • fight/flight
  • controls HR
  • operates when highly aroused/ need energy bursts
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Peripheral NS

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  • made up of all other nerves connecting CNS to body

- connects brain + spinal cord to sensory receptors in sense organs responding to external stimuli

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Neurons

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Cells from basic chilling blocks of entire NS

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Somatic NS

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  • subsystem, voluntary control via skeleton muscles

- afferent sensory neurons allow movement

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Automatic NS

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  • controls involuntary functions (internal muscles, organs etc)
  • regulates body functions
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Parasympathetic NS abilities

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  • slowing/ calming
  • rest/ digest
  • maintains homeostasis
  • no longer under threat
    Increase blood flow to body
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Frontal lobe function+damage

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F: thinking, decision making, feeling + behaviour, movement.
D: language disabilities, personality changes, Voluntary movement issues

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Parietal Lobe functions + damage

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F: body sensations, ie touch temperature, pain, spatial awareness
D: math/reading/writing disabilities

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Occipital Lobe functions + damages

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F: vision, perception, colour recognition, integrates eye info to whole pictures
D: full/ partial blindness, hallucinations (drugs)

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Temporal lobe function + damage

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F: hearing, speech production + memory
D: hearing loss, speech failure, memory loss, inability to recognise faces

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Primary visual cortex function + damage

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F: visual. Eyes: perception + colour recognition
D: blindness, cortical rep. (Distortion if memory)
EG* Herman Munk (1881) made lesions on dog’s occipital loves and nursed back to health. Dogs see perfectly but familiar objects where unrecognisable

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Auditory cortex ( top of temporal lobe )

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F: auditory info received + processed, response then coordinated
D: loss of sound awareness, reflex reaction to sound were due to subcritical processing

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Motor cortex

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F: voluntary movement
D: impaired movement on opposite side of body to damage

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Sensory cortex

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F: Amount of cortex devoted depends on sensitivity, not size
D: decrease sensory threshold/ struggle to identify objects via touch

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Broca (frontal lobe)

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F: mouth+ tongue control. Production of speech, grammatical structures, enable clear+ fluent speech
D: understand language but can’t from words

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Wernickes’s Area (left temporal lobe)

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F: understand written/ spoken language
D: difficulty understanding words/ produce sounds, unable to locate words in memory, sentences= meaningless, nonsense may make sense to themselves only

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Repeating a heard word cortex processes

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1: activates Primary auditory cortex (hear)
2: wernicke’s area (remembers)
3: broca (creates speech)
4: motor cortex (responds w/ movement/words)

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Neurons

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A specialised cell that receives, transmits + processes info

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3 types of neurons ?

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  • sensory (afferent)
  • motor (efferent)
  • inter (connector/relay)
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Synapse process?

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1- signal released when electrical msg reaches axon terminal
2- travel across synapse to next neuron’s dendrites
3- dendrites send signal to another neuron
4- neurotransmitters broken down/reabsorbed

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Define membrane potential

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The difference in electrical potential between the inside + outside of the neuron

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Define polarised

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Cell pumps ‘+’ ions through membrane, making cell more ‘-‘ than outside

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Define depolarised

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when ‘+’ ions fire @ full strength/not at all, a neuron decreases in polarisation (inside more than outside)

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Define repolarised

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when ‘+’ neurons pump outside membrane, cell returns to polarised state

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4 neurontransmitters?

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dopamine, serotonin, endorphine + norpinephine

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dopamine responsibilities?

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learning, attention, pleasure, sleep + wake cycles

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serotonin responsibilities?

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sleep, hunger, arousal, lifts mood, produces satiety. Links with depression. Drugs alter this NT

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Endorphins responsibilities?

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controls alertness, arousal + memory. Undersupply can cause depression

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Serotonin increases positive mood inductions how?

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music, light levels, exercise + diets

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Low levels of Dopamine cause what?

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schizophrenia, ADHD, Parkinsons etc. High amounts can cause addiction

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Define genetics

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The study of heredity + passing on inherited characteristics from 1 generation to the next

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Define heredity

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The passing of genetic characteristics from 1 generation to the next

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Define nature

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How much our differences are shaped by our geneitc codings

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Define Nurture

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How much are our differences shaped by our environment/upbringing

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Synaptic transmission process? (3 steps)

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1: reuptake into axon terminal, 2: enzymes break down NT into components to be reabsorbed, 3: drift away via diffusion

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What is epigenetics?

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modification to gene expression that doesn’t involve altering underlying genetic code. (inherited, genes activate/deactivate, changes phenotype, affects how cells read genes) eg, lactose intolerance

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Bouchard + McGue (1981) meta analysis of siblings

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Found closer siblings have more similar IQs. Generalisable study. difficult to differentiate nature/nurture influences

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Bouchard et al. (1990) Minnesota Twin Study

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Studies similarities in IQ of Identical twins reared together v apart. Compared ability, personality, attitudes, hobbies. 69% intelligence for twins raised apart. 88% accordance for together. 70% attributed to genetics. 30% nurture. Correlation does not =causation

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Explain hormones

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genes impact behaviour, thoughts + emotions via regulation + production of hormones. eg increased oestrogen influences behaviour.

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Adrenalin effects

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increase arousal, heart + breath rate, decrease pain response and slow digestive system. Difficult to concentrate + communicate

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Noradrenalin effects

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maintains blood pressure, increase blood sugar, alertness, anxiety + vigilance, breaks down fat for energy

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Psychoactive drugs

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SUBSTANCE THAT ACTS UPON CNS…Influence thoughts, feelings + behaviour. Hijack receptors + alter body chemistry.

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Recreational drugs

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makes us feel better, most medical, legal v illegal

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Depressants…?

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calm activity of the neurons and slow body functions

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Stimulants…?

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excite nervous system and arouse body functions

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Hallucinogens

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change perception + give sensory images w/o input from senses

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Ecstasy is a?

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stimulant + mild hallucinogen. Large risks= dehydration, overheating, eventual death

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