Brain and Behavior Flashcards
1
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What is the Nervous System (CNS,PNS) composed of?
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- Brain
- Spinal Cord
- Periphery
2
Q
Brain
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- coordination of info. and decision making
- development, trauma, altered chemistry, and altered pathways
3
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Spinal Cord
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-convayence of info
4
Q
Periphery
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-sensation and perception
5
Q
Brainstem
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-arousal, frustration, pleasure
6
Q
Thalamus
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- coordinates sensory input
- all senses except for smell (olfactory on its own)
7
Q
Olfactory Bulb
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-directly
8
Q
Hypothalamus
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- links brain to endocrine system
- many inputs from brainstem
9
Q
Hippocampus
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-regulates amygdala
10
Q
Amygdala
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- emotional/fear center of the brain
- fear memories are 3 F’s (flight, fight, freeze)
- sympathetic
11
Q
Cingulate
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- play/maternal behavior
- only seen in mammals
12
Q
Cerebral Cortex
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- higher learning
- info stored like cues they know, routines, and voluntary problem solving
- parasympathetic
13
Q
Parasympathetic
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- rest and digest
- low HR, BP, etc
14
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Sympathetic
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- flight and fight
- high HR, BP, respiration rate
- blood diverts away from GI tract
- release of epinephrine from adrenal medulla
15
Q
What happens in 1/2 second of stress?
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-adrenal medulla->epinephrine->cortisol