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Biopsychology- The Nervous System Flashcards

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What is biopsychology about?

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How biology influences behaviour

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What does biopsychology study?

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Nervous system, neurotransmitters and hormones

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What is the role of the nervous system?

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Allows you to respond to changes in your environment and allows you to coordinate your actions

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What do receptors do?

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Detect stimuli

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What do effectors do?

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Brings about a response to a stimulus

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What are effectors?

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Muscle cells and cells found in glands

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How do receptors communicate with effectors?

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Via the nervous and/or endocrine systems

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What are the two parts to the nervous system?

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Central (CNS) and peripheral (PNS)

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What is the central nervous system made up of?

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The brain and the spinal cord

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What is the peripheral nervous system made up of?

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The neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body

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What are the two parts to the PNS?

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Autonomic (ANS) and somatic (SNS)

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What is the role of the somatic nervous system?

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To control conscious activities

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What is the role of the autonomic nervous system?

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Controls unconscious activities

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What are the two parts to the ANS?

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic

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What is the role of the sympathetic nervous system?

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To get the body ready for action

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What is the role of the parasympathetic nervous system?

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To calm the body down

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What is the role of neurons?

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To transmit information as electrical impulses around the body

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What does the cell body have?

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Dendrites that receive information from other neurons

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How does information pass within the neuron?

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Along the axon in the form of an electrical impulse that ends up at the synaptic knob

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What is the role of the myelin sheath?

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Insulates the axon to speed up nervous transmission

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What is the synapse?

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A small gap before the next neuron

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What are neurotransmitters?

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Chemicals released from the synaptic knob that pass across the synapse to pass on the signal to the dendrites of the next neuron

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What are the 3 types of neurons?

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Sensory, relay and motor

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What are sensory neurons?

A

Transmit electrical impulses from receptors to the CNS

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What are relay neurons?

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Transmit electrical impulses between sensory neurons and motor neurons

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What are motor neurons?

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Transmit electrical impulses from CNS to effectors

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What are reflexes?

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Fast, automatic responses to stimuli

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What is the advantage of reflexes?

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They help us avoid damage

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What does the synaptic knob contain?

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Synaptic vesicles filled with neurotransmitters

30
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What happens when an electrical impulse reaches the end of a neuron?

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It causes neurotransmitters to be released into the synaptic cleft

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What happens to neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft?

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They diffuse across to the postsynaptic membrane and bind to specific receptors

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What happens when neurotransmitters bind to receptors?

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Trigger an electrical impulse, cause muscle contraction, or cause a hormone to be secreted

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Why are impulses unidirectional?

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Because receptors are only on the postsynaptic membranes

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What do excitatory neurotransmitters do?

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Increases the likelihood that an electrical impulse will be triggered in the postsynaptic neuron

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What do inhibitory neurotransmitters do?

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Decrease the likelihood that an electrical impulse will be triggered in the postsynaptic neuron

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What is the structure of a sensory neuron?

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Long dendrites, short axons

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What is the structure of a relay neuron?

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Short dendrites, short axons

38
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What is the structure of a motor neuron?

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Short dendrites, long axons

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