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Biopsychology - The Nervous System Flashcards

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1
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What does bio psychology use to explain behaviour?

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How biology influences behaviour.

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WHat does the nervous system allow you to do?

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  • Respond to changes in your environment (stimuli)

- To coordinate your actions

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What detects stimuli?

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Receptors

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What brings about a response to the stimulus? What do they include?

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Effectors. Include muscle cells and cells found in glands e.g. pancreas.

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How do receptors and effectors communicate?

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Via the nervous or endocrine system, or both.

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What do the nervous and endocrine systems coordinate.

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The response to a stimuli.

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What are the two parts of the nervous system?

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The central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS).

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What is the central nervous system (CNS) made up of?

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The brain and spinal cord.

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What is the peripheral nervous system made up of?

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The neutrons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body.

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What are the two different systems of the PNS?

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The somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system (ANS).

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What does the somatic nervous system control?

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Conscious activities e.g. running and playing video games.

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What does the autonomic nervous system control?

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Unconscious activities e.g. digestion.

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What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system?

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The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

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What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

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Calms the body down. It’s the ‘rest and digest system’.

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What dos the sympathetic nervous system do?

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Gets the body ready for action. It’s the ‘flight or fight system’.

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What does the somatic nervous system connect CNS with?

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The senses.

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What are neurons?

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The cells of the nervous system.

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What do neurons do?

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Transmit electrical information as electrical impulses around the body.

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What are dendrites?

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The part of the neuron that receives information from other neurons.

20
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In what form does information pass along the axon?

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As an electrical impulse.

21
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As the electrical impulse passes along the axon, where does it end up?

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At the synaptic knob.

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What insulates the axon and for what purpose?

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The myelin sheath insulates the axon to speed up nervous transmission.

23
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What are neurotransmitters and where are they released from?

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Chemicals released form the synaptic knob.

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After neurotransmitters are released from the synaptic knob what happens to them?

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They pass across the synapse, to pass on the signal to the dendrites of the next neuron.

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What do biopsychologists look at neurotransmitters for?

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To work out what they do and how they can be influenced by things like diet, exercise and drugs.

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Why do biopsychologists work out how to manipulate neurotransmitters with medication?

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To NORTON different behaviours. E.g. if a medication or diet was developed to reduce the neurotransmitters that signal stress, this could help people who get stressed out too easily.

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What are the three different types of neurons?

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Sensory neurons, relay neurons and motor neurons.

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Sensory Neurons

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The nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses from receptors to the CNS.

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Relay Neurons

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The nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses between sensory neurons and motor neurons.

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Motor Neurons

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The nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses from the CNS to effectors.

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Transmission of information to and from the CNS diagram:

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Relay Neuron
Sensory Neuron —> Motor Neuron
Stimulus —> Receptors —> CNS —> Effectors —> Response

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What do reflexes help prevent?

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Injury and damage.

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What are reflexes?

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Fast, automatic responses to certain stimuli.

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Why are reflexes so rapid?

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They bypass your conscious brain completely - instead they go through the spinal cord or through an unconscious part of the brain.

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What is a synapse?

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The junction between a neuron and another neuron, or between a neuron and an effector cell, e.g. a muscle or gland cell.

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What is the tiny gap between the cells at a synapse called?

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The synaptic cleft/ gap.

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