Brain systems

Question 1

Autonomic Nervous System

Answer 1

Involuntary actions (organs and glands), emotions

Question 2

2 Divisions of Autonomic System

Answer 2

Sympathetic

Parasympathetic

Question 3

Endocrine System

Answer 3

Control secretion of blood-borne chemical messengers

Question 4

Pituitary Gland

Answer 4

Directs other glands

Question 5

Adrenal Glands

Answer 5

Adrenaline, cortisol

Question 6

Brain mapping methods (4)

Answer 6

Neuropsychology (Phineas Gage, damage brain)
Lesion or Ablation methods (removing brain tissue to study how behaviour changes)
EEG (measures brains electrical activity at surface)

Question 7

MRI

Answer 7

Magnetic fields to scan brain structure

Question 8

fMRI

Answer 8

Real time measurement, energy consumption

Question 9

TMS

Answer 9

Enhance or interrupt brain function

Question 10

Neural Plasticity

Answer 10

Ability of nervous system to change

Brain can be modified and fine-tuned

Question 11

Critical Periods

Answer 11

Idea that there is a critical time in which mental behaviour must be learned
Crucial to have necessary interraction between brain and environment

Question 12

Genie

Answer 12

Spent first 13 years of life locked in room
Bound and enclosed
Almost entirely mute, only knew negative language
never mastered syntax of english

Question 13

Read all material in chapter 3 except p 120-125

Answer 13

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