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Chapter Two Flashcards

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Neurons

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Exchange info with other cells (100 billion)

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Main idea

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“Everything psychological is simultaneously biological”

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Axon

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Cell in charge of transmission

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Dendrites

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Receivers

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Synapse

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Point of transfer
Gap between axon and dendrites
1,000-10,000 for every neuron

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Plasticity

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Undifferentiated cells have capacity to change and replace damaged cells to take over a function

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First brain

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Emotional and unconscious
Purpose: survival
Gatekeeper

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New brain

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Rational and conscious

Decision making

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Reticular System

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Connects first brain and new brain

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Corpus callosum

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Coordinates left and right brain hemispheres

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“Use it or lose it”

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Neural connections stick around if they are used

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Teen brain

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Unable to read faces (growth of frontal lobes)

Repeats acts of infancy

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Hemispherectomies

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Evidence of plasticity in children

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5 pillars of brain development

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  1. Use it or lose it
  2. Blossoming and pruning (shapes neural network)
  3. The window of opportunity
  4. The window of sensitivity
  5. Myelination (insulation of nerve cells)
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Cerebral cortex

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Gray matter
Intelligence
Broken into 4 lobes

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Left brain

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Speaking 
Writing 
Comprehending 
Language 
Right side of body
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Right brain

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Simple language
Perceptual skills
Recognition/expression of emotions
Left side of body

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Frontal lobes

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Speaking
Muscle movement
Planning
Judgement

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Parietal lobes

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Sensory input for for touch and body position

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Occipital lobes

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Receive info from visual fields

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Temporal lobes

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Auditory areas

Receives info from opposite eat

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Amygdala

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Emotion

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Hippocampus

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Memory

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Medulla

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Heartbeat and breathing

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Cerebellum

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Balance

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Pons

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Coordination

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Thalamus

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Brain’s switchboard

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Hypothalamus

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Internal state

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Amygdala

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Emotion

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Hippocampus

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Memory

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Reticular formation

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Filters stimuli

Keeps you awake

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