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Biological psychology

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Study the link between biological activity and psychological events understanding sleep hunger sex dreams depression stress

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Phrenology

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Bumps on the head said to know the abilities

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Neuron

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Consists of a cell body and it’s branching fibers nerve cell- basic building blocks of nervous systems

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Dendrite

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Receive info and send toward cell body LISTENER BUSHY EXTENSIONS

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Axon

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SPEAKER EXTENSIONS pass info or message to others neurons and muscles and glands

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Myelin sheath

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FATTY TISSUES insulates the axons of some neurons and helps speed up their impulses

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Actions potential

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Brief electrical charge that travels down the axon

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Threshold

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Combined signals trigger actin potential

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Synapse (synaptic gap)

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Gap between axon terminal sending and receiving axon

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemical messengers released by actin potential reaches knoblike terminal

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Ach acetylcholine

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Neurotransmitters that enables learning and memory and also triggers muscle contractions

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Endorphins

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Morphine within natural opiates

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Nervous system

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Electrochemical information network

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Central nervous system

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Brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral nervous system

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Links CNS w/ body’s sense receptors, muscles, and glands

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Nerves

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Neural cables containing many axons connect cns- pns

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Sensory neurons

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Neurons that carry incoming into from the sense receptors too CNS

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Motor neurons

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Carry out going info CNS to muscles and glands

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Inter neurons

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CNS neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor outputs

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Somatic nervous system

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Enable voluntary control of our skeletal muscles

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Autonomic nervous system

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Controls the glands and the muscles of our internal organs

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Arouses heartbeat and blood pressure

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Produces opposite effects lowers blood

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Reflex

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Automatic response to stimuli

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Lesions

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Tissue destruction

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Neural networks

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Interconnected neural cells

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Endocrine system

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Body slows chemical communication system, a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream

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Hormones

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Chemical messengers

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Adrenal glands

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On top of the kidneys release adrenaline

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Pituitary glands

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Hormones that influence growth, pea sized structure in brain controlled by hypothalamus

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EEG

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An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brains surface

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PET scan

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Measure of Glucose sugar dog bad

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MRI

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Head is put in a strong magnetic field that aligns the spinning atoms

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fMRI

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Function of brain

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Brain stem

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Central core begins where spinal cord enters the skull responsible for automatic survival functions

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Medulla

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Base of the brain stem controls heartbeat and breathing

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Reticular formation

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Nerve network that plays an important role in controlling arousal

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Thalamus

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Brains sensory switchboard

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Hippocampus

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Stores memories

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Cerebellum

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The little brain rear of brain stem processing sensory input and coordinating MOVEMENT AND BALANCE

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Limbic system

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Doughnut shaped neural system

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Amygdala

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Aggression and fear Amy give me a dala or I’ll be mad.

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Hypothalamus

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A neural structure that directs several maintenance activities linked to emotion

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Cerebral cortex

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Intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells that covers the cerebral hemispheres INFO PROCESSING CENTER

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Glial cells

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Cells in the nervous system that support nourish and protect neurons

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Frontal lobes

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Portion of the cerebral cortex lying behind the forehead

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Occipital lobes

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Back of head vision

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Parietal lobes

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Touch and body position

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Temporal lobes

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Auditory

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Motor cortex

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Controls movement

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Sensory cortex

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Registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

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Association areas

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Not involved in motor or sensory functions, learning remembering thinking and speaking

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Aphasia

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Impaired language

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Broca’s area

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Language expression and muscle movement

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Wernickes area

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Language reception comprehension and expression

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Plasticity

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Brains capacity of modification

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Corpus collosum

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Large band of fibers connecting brain hemispheres

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Split brain

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Condition in which the 2 hemispheres are isolated by cutting the connects fibers between them.

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