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Biopsychology Flashcards

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What is Biopsychology?

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The scientific study of the biology of behaviour and mental processes

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What is nature? (nature vs nuture)

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Genes/ how we were born

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What is nurture? (nature vs nurture)

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Environment, experiences, and surroundings

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What is Behavioural Genetics?

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The study of the relative effects of heredity and the environment on behaviour and mental processes

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What is the most important building block of our biological inheritance?

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Genes

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What is polygenetic characteristics?

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Controlled by multiple genes, also affected by environment and social factors

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What is a genotype?

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Your actual genetic material

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What is a phenotype?

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Expressed and triggered by the environmet

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What is Heritiability?

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The percentage of variation in population attributes to genetic factors rather than differences in the environment

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What is Evolutionary Psychology?

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The branch that studies the application of the principles of evolution to explain behaviour and mental processes

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What is Natural Selection?

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A particular genetic trait gives a reproductive advantage

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What is a neuron?

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Tiny informations processing system

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What is a nerve?

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A group of neurons

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What is the basic building block of the nervous system?

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The neuron

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What cell takes care of the neurons?

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The glial cells (the parent cells)

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What are the dendrites?

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The branching fibers that receive impulses and conveys impulses to the body (Antennae)

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What are Terminal Buttons?

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Form junctions with other cells to release neurotransmitters

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What are neurotransmitters?

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Chemical Messengers

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What is the endocrine system?

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Network of glands located throughout the body that make and secrete hormones into the blood stream

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What is a hormone?

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A chemical messenger that produces bodily changes, or maintain function

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Which system are the neurotransmitters?

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Nervous System

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Which system are hormones?

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Endocrine system

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What is the nervous system?

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Information received from the outside world and passed along the entire body

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What are the 2 parts of the Nervous System?

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Central Nervous System, and Peripheral Nervous System

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What is in the central nervous system?

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The control center (Brain, spinal cord, brain stem), and Spinal Cord

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What does the spinal cord control?

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Reflexes

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What are the 2 parts of the Peripheral Nervous System?

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Somatic (voluntary) and Autonomic (involuntary)

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What are the 2 parts of the Autonomic Nervous System?

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Sympathetic (winds up) Parasympathetic (winds down)

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