Module 10 Vocab - The Nervous System Flashcards
Central nervous system
The brain and the spine
Peripheral Nervous system
Everything else
Somatic nervous system
Autonomic nervous system
Peripheral nervous system: Somatic nervous system
Voluntary action
Peripheral nervous system: Autonomic nervous system
Things you can’t control
Sympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Autonomic nervous system: Sympathetic nervous system
Arousing, mobilizes body in stressful events
Autonomic nervous system: Parasympathetic nervous system
Calms you down
Sensory neurons
Takes sensory information and sends it to the brain
Motor neurons
Outgoing info from the central nervous system
Tells muscles to move
Neurons that communicate internally between sensory and motor neurons
Reflexes
Interneurons
Mirror neurons
See someone doing something, you are more likely to do it
Nervous system: ________ lasting, _______ acting
Short, fast
Neural networks
- Help us memorize and do things well
- More you do something, the stronger and more efficient the networks get
- Hard to break them (why it’s so hard to break bad habits)
