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Chapter 2- The Biology of Mind and Consciousness Flashcards

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Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands, travel through the bloodstream, and affect other tissues

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Hormones

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Junction between the axon tip of a sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of a receiving neuron

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Synapse

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Neuron that carries incoming information from the sensory receptors to the central nervous system

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Sensory neuron

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Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse

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Threshold

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Posterior part of the brain that deals with a automatic survival functions

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Brainstem

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Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep

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Insomnia

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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Selective attention

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Neurotransmitter that deals with mood, hunger, sleep and arousal

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Serotonin

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Cerebral cortex area at the front of the parietal lobes; registers and processes body touch and movement sensations

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Somatosensory cortex

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Part of the brain that deals with emotion

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Amygdala

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Recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active

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REM (rapid eye movement) sleep

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Neuron extensions that receive messages and conduct them toward the cell body

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Dendrites

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Sleep disorder in which a person has uncontrollable sleep attacks, sometimes lapsing directly into REM sleep

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Narcolepsy

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A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior

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Biological psychology

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Hearing

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Temporal lobe

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Sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind

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Dream

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The body’s speedy, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the central and peripheral nervous systems

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Nervous systems

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Failure to notice changes when our attention is disrupted

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Change blindness

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False sensory experience, such as hearing something in the absence of an external auditory stimulus

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Hallucination

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A technique for revealing blood flow and, therefore, brain activity. These show brain function

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fMRI (functional MRI)

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The brain and spinal cord makes up the

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Central nervous system (CNS)

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The gap between two neurons

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Synapse

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A nerve impulse

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Action potential

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Directs sensory messages

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thalamus

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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Selective attention

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Part of the brain that deals with planning and producing of movement

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Basal ganglia

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Failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Inattentional blindness

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A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system

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Neuron

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Failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Inattentional blindness

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A sleep disorder in which a sleeping person repeated stops breathing until blood oxygen is so low it awakens the person just long enough to draw a breath

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Sleep apnea

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Chemical, such as opium, morphine, or heroin, that depresses neuron activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety

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Opiate

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Thinking

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Frontal lobe

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Relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

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Alpha waves

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Failure to notice changes in the environment

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Change blindness

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According to Freud, the remembered story line of a dream

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Manifest content

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Peripheral nervous system division controlling the body’s skeletal muscles. Also called the skeletal nervous system

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Somatic nervous system

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Autonomic nervous system subdivision that calms the body, conserving its energy

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Neurotransmitter that affects arousal and alertness

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Norepinephrine

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Cerebral cortex area at the rear of the frontal lobes; controls voluntary movements

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Motor cortex

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Touch

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Parietal lobe

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The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation

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REM rebound

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Area of the brain that is dominated by neurons’ cell bodies

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Gray matter

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Cerebral cortex areas involved primarily in higher mental functions, such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking.

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Association areas

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The sensory and motor neurons connecting the central nervous system to the rest of the body

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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The brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience

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Plasticity

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Internal biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle

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Circadian rhythm

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Most influential endocrine gland. Under the influence of the hypothalamus

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Pituitary gland

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Neuron that carries outgoing information from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands

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Motor neuron

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Neurotransmitter that enables muscle action

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Acetylcholine

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Area of the brain that consists mostly of axons and fatty myelin sheaths that surround them

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White matter

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Neuron extension that sends messages to other neurons or cells

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Axon

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natural, opiate-like neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure

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endorphins

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The body’s “slow” chemical communication system

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Endocrine

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Bundled axons that form neural cables connecting the central nervous system with muscles, glands, and sense organs

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Nerves

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Neurons within the brain and spinal cord; communicate internally and process information between sensory inputs and motor outputs

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Interneuron

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Condition in which the brain’s two hemispheres are isolated by cutting the fibers of the corpus callosum

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Split brain

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Periodic, natural loss of consciousness as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation

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Sleep

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Hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus

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Limbic system

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Neurotransmitter that deals with movement, learning and attention

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Dopamine

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Information- processing center

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Cerebral cortex

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Neuron-produced chemicals that cross synapse to carry messages to other neurons or cells

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Neurotransmitters

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Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons; they may also play a role in learning, thinking, and memory.

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Glial cells

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Autonomic nervous system subdivision that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations.

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Peripheral nervous system division controlling the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart).

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Autonomic nervous system (ANS)

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Formation of new neurons

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Neurogenesis

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A view of brain activity showing where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task

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PET (positron emission tomography) scan

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Certain hemisphere of the brain that is dominant for spatial relationships

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Right hemisphere

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A neuron’s reaction of either firing (with a full-strength response) or not firing

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All-or-nothing response

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The part of the brain that controls the heartbeat and breathing

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medulla

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According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream

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Latent content

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The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

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Delta waves

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Neurotransmitter that inhibits

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GABA

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A technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images of soft tissues

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MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

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Neurotransmitter that excites

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Glutamate

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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment

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Consciousness

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Large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them

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Corpus callosum

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Device that uses electrodes placed on the scalp to record waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brain’s surface

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EEG (electroencephalograph)

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Vision

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Occipital lobe

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Directs maintenance activities

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Hypothalamus

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Coordinating movement

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Cerebellum

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Certain hemisphere of the brain that is dominant for language

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Left hemisphere

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A simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus

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Reflex

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Pair of endocrine glands that sit just above the kidneys and secrete hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) that help arouse the body in time of stress

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Adrenal glands

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