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Chapter 3 Psychology 175.102 Flashcards

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Sensory neurons

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Transmit information from the sensory cells called receptors to the brain.

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Neurons

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Basic units of the nervous system

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Interneurons

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Nerve cells that connect other neurons with one another.

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Motor neurons

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Transmit commands from interneurons to the glands and muscles of the body.

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Anatomy of a neuron

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Dendrites
Cell body
Axon
Myelin sheath
Terminal buttons
Synapses
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Glutamate

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Neurotransmitter that can excite nearly every neuron in the nervous system

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GABA

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Neurotransmitter that play an inhibitory role.

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Dopamine

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Neurotransmitter involved in thought, feeling, motivation, and behaviour

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Serotonin

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Neurotransmitter involved in regulation of mood, sleep, eating, arousal and pain.

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Acetylcholine

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Neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory.

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Endorphins

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Neurotransmitter that elevates mood and reduces pain.

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Endocrine system

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A collection of glands that secrete chemicals, called hormones, directly into the bloodstream.

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Pituitary gland

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An oval structure in the brain often called the master gland because it stimulates and regulates other glands

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Thyroid gland

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Located in the neck, releases hormones that control growth and metabolism

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Adrenal gland

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Located in the kidneys. Secretes adrenaline and other hormones during emergencies.

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Pancreas

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Located near the stomach, produces hormones that control blood-sugar levels

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Gonads

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Glands that influence sexual development and behaviour.

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Testosterone

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Male hormone of the gonads

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Estrogens

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Female hormone of the gonads

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Central nervous system

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Consists of brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral nervous system

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Consists of neurons that convey messages to and from the CNS.
Somatic nervous system & Autonomic nervous system

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Somatic nervous system

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Transmits sensory information to the central nervous system and carries out its commands

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Autonomic nervous system

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Conveys information to and from internal bodily structures that carry out basic life support such as digestion and respiration.
Includes Sympathetic nervous system & Parasympathetic nervous system.

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Activated in response to threats.

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Supports the more mundane activities such as regulating blood-sugar, saliva, and eliminating wastes.

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Three parts of the Brain

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  1. Hindbrain
  2. Midbrain
  3. Forebrain
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Hindbrain

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Medulla oblongata (medulla)
Cerebellum
Parts of reticular formation
Pons

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Medulla

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The extension of the spinal cord to the brain. Essential to life, controlling vital functions such as heartbeat, circulation and respiration

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Cerebellum

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Large structure at back of brain involved in movement as well as other functions.

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Reticular formation

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Major function is to control consciousness, regulate arousal levels and modulate the activity of neurons throughout the CNS

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Pons

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Involved in respiration, movement, sleep, waking and dreaming

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Midbrain

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Helps coordinate movement patterns, sleep and arousal

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Tectum

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Includes structures involved in vision and hearing

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Tegmentum

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Includes parts of the reticular formation and other neural structures. Related to movement.

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Forebrain

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Involved in complex sensory, emotional, cognitive and behavioural processes. Consists of the hypothalamus thalamus, and cerebrum.

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Hypothalamus

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Help regulate behaviours ranging from eating and sleeping to sexual activity emotional experience

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Thalamus

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Processes sensory information as it arrives and transmits this information to the higher brain centres.

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Limbic system

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Diverse functions including emotion, motivation, learning and memory

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Amygdala

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Involved in many emotional processes especially learning and remembering emotionally significant events

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Hippocampus

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Particularly important for storing new information in memory so that the person can later consciously remember it.

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Basal ganglia

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Includes the putem and caudate nucleus involved in movement and judgement that require conscious thought

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Cerebral cortex includes …

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Frontal lobes
Association areas, which are involved in complex mental processes such as perception and thinking
Temporal lobes
Primary areas, which usually process raw sensory data
Occipital lobes
Parietal lobes

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Occipital lobes

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Specialised for vision

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Parietal lobes

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Involved in several functions including the sense of touch, detecting movement in the environment, locating objects in space and experiencing one’s own body as it moves through space

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Somatosensory cortex

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Different sections of the somatosensory cortex receive information from different parts of the body

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Frontal lobes

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Involved in a number of functions including movement, attention, planning, social skills, abstract thinking, memory and some aspects of personality

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Motor cortex

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Through its projections to the basal ganglia, cerebellum and spinal cord, the motor cortex initiates voluntary movement

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Broca’s area

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Located in the left frontal lobe at the base of the motor cortex, is specialised for movement of the mouth and tongue necessary for speech production. It also plays a pivotal role in the use and understanding of grammar

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Temporal lobes

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Particularly important in audition and language, although they have other functions as well

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Wernicke’s area

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Located in the left temporal lobe, is important in language comprehension. Damage to Wernick’s area may produce Wernick’s aphasia, characterised by difficulty understanding what words and sentences mean

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Corpus callosum

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Joins the two hemispheres of the brain.

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Left hemisphere

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The left hemisphere is more verbal and analytic

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Right hemisphere

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The right hemisphere is specialised for non-linguistic functions

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Gene

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The gene is the unit of hereditary transmission

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Chromosomes

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Strands of paired DNA that spiral around each other. Human cells have 46 chromosomes, except sperm cells in males and egg cells in females, each of which has 23.

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Degree of the relatedness

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The probability of sharing genes among relatives

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Monozygotic twins

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Monozygotic twins developed from the union of the same sperm and egg. They share the same genetic make up so the degree of genetic relatedness is 1.0.

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Dizygotic twins

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Dizygotic twins develop from the union of two sperm with two separate eggs. Like other siblings the degree of relatedness is .5

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Heritability coefficient

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Quantifies the extent to which variation in the trait across individuals can be accounted for by genetic variation.

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