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Chapter 4 EF Flashcards

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Hypothalamus

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Regulates many motivational behaviors such as eating drinking and flight/fight and secretes hormones

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Limbic system

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Refers to a group of about a half dozen interconnected structures that make up the core of the fore brain; regulates many motivational behaviors and organizes emotional behaviors with memories

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Thalamus

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Receives sensory info then sends it to cortex

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Amygdala

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Receives input from all the senses and evaluates emotional significance of stimuli

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Hippocampus

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Involved in saving many kinds of fleeting memories

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Sympathetic division

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Triggered by a threatening or challenging stimuli

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Parasympathetic division

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Helps return body to normal state

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Homeostasis

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic work simultaneously and together to keep body functioning

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Hormones

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Various chemicals secreted by the endocrine system

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Endocrine system

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Made up of numerous glands which secrete hormones

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Thyroid

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Regulates metabolism through the release of hormones

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Adrenal glands

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Secretes hormones that regulate sugar and salt and help the body to relax

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Epinephrine

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Adrenaline

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Norepinephrine

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Noradrenaline

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Gonads

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Regulate sexual development

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Pancreas

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Regulates the level of sugar in the blood stream

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Anterior pituitary

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Regulates growth through secretion of growth hormones and produces hormones

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Posterior pituitary

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The rear portion if the obituary regulates water and salt balance

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Pituitary gland

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  • Divided into anterior and posterior
  • Hangs directly below hypothalamus
  • a key component of endocrine system
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Hypothalamus

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Controls much of the endocrine system by regulating the pituitary gland

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