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Gen Psych Chapter 3 Flashcards

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What are sensory neurons?

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Receive sensory info form the environment and sends it to the brain.

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What are motor neurons?

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Transmits motor commands from brain to the muscles.

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What are Inter-neurons?

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Connects to sensory, motor, and other neurons.

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What are the names of the three parts of a neuron?

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Dendrite, axon, and cell body.

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What does a dendrite do?

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Receivers detect info from other neurons and “decides” to pass the info along.

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What is a cell body?

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Central processor, and contains nucleus, and collects and integrates info.

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What does the axon do?

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They are transmitters and sends info into other neurons, muscles, and glands.

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What is the myelin sheath?

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It is the fatty material that insulates the axon.

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What is synapse?

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The space between neurons that chemicals must cross to reach neighboring cells.

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What is resting potential?

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The difference in the electric charge between the inside and the outside of a neuron’s cell membrane.

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What is action potential?

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An electric signal that is conducted along the length of a neuron’s axon to a synapse.

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What are terminal buttons?

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They are knoblike structures that branch out from an axon. They are filled with neurotransmitters that are chemicals that transmit info across the synapse to a receiving neuron’s dendrites.

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What is a pre-synaptic neuron?

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This is the sending neuron.

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What are post-synaptic neuron?

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They are the receiving neuron.

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What is an excitatory neurotransmitter?

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This makes the post-synaptic most likely to fire.

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What is an inhalaitory neurotransmitter?

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This makes the post-synaptic neuron less likely to fire.

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What is reuptake?

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This is when neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by pre-synaptic terminal buttons.

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What is Enzyme Deactivation?

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This is the process where enzyme’s function is to destroy excess NT’s in synapse.

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What is electrical and chemical neurons?

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Communication within a neuron is electrical, but comm between neurons is chemical.

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What is the rule of neural firing?

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All or none.

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The peripheral system has two main systems, what are they called?

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Automatic and Somatic

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What does the automatic system do?

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This regulates the organs and glands.

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What does the sympathetic system do?

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Fight or flight

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What does the parasympathetic system do?

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Rest and digest

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What are spinal reflexes?

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Simple pathways in the nervous system that rapidly generate muscle contractions.

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What is the reflex arc?

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A neural pathway that controls reflex actions.

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What does the higher brain do?

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Evolutionary recent, and completes complex functions.

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What does the lower brain do?

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This part of the brain is ancient and performs simpler functions.

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What are the principals of the structure of the brain?

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(1) Hierarchical organization, (2) Localization of function.

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What is the hindbrain?

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Keeps an organism alive even without other parts of the brain.

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What is the Cerebellum?

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This controls motor skills, balance, and coordination.

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What are pons (bridges)?

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This relays info from the cerebellum to the forebrain and also contributes to sleeping and dreaming.

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What is the midbrain?

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Involves pleasure and reward.

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What is a tectum?

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Orients an organism to its environment.

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What is a Tegmentum?

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It controls movement, arousal and reward.

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What is the forebrain?

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Controls complex functions and emotional functions, and perception.

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What is the Thalamus?

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This is the sensory switchboard.

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What is the pituitary gland?

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This is the master gland of “hormone” system.

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What is the limbic system?

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Groups of structures in the forebrain involved in motivation, emotion, memory.

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What does the Hypothalamus do?

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Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, and Fucking

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What does the Hippocampus do?

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This converts short-term hormones into long-term hormones.

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What does the amygdala do?

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Controls emotion, and emotional significance.

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What does the thalamus do?

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This relays and and filters information from the senses and transmits the info to the cerebral cortex.

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What does the basal ganglia do?

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This is a set of subcortical structures that directs intentional movements and plays a role in reward processing.

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What is central lateral control?

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Each hemisphere of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.

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What is the corpus callosum?

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This is the bridge of nerve fibers that connects the hemispheres.

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What is the occipital lobe?

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Processes visual info.

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What is the parietal lobe?

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Processes touch.

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What is the frontal lobe?

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Abstract thinking, planning, and judgement.

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What is the temporal lobe?

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Processing sounds, object and facial recognition.

51
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What is Broca’s Area?

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This is language production.

52
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What is Wernickers Area?

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This is language comprehension.

53
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What is neural plasticity?

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This means that younger brains are more flexible than older brains. You’re more likely to recover from a brain injury if you are young.

54
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What are association areas?

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They are composed of neurons that help provide sense and meaning to information registered in the cortex.

55
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What are chromosones?

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Strands of DNA wound around each other in the double helix model.

56
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What are epigenetic marks?

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Chemical modifications to DNA can turn genes on and off.

57
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What is DNA methylation?

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This involves adding methyl group to DNA.

58
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What is histone modification?

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This involves adding chemical modifications to proteins called histones that are involved in packagaing DNA.

59
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What is Heritability?

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This is a measure of the variability of behavioral traits among individuals that can be accounted for by genetic factors.

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