psychology 2

Question 1

Afferent

Answer 1

body to brain

Question 2

Efferent

Answer 2

brain to body

Question 3

Somatic NS

Answer 3

controls voluntary movement

Question 4

Autonomic NS

Answer 4

unvoluntary actions, sympathetic branch, parasympathetic branch

Question 5

CNS

Answer 5

central nervous system

Question 6

peripheral nervous system

Answer 6

carries messages to and from the CNS

Question 7

spinal cord

Answer 7

connects brain and peripheral nervous system

Question 8

somatic

Answer 8

nervous system controls voluntary muscles and transmits sensory information to the CNS

Question 9

automatic

Answer 9

nervous system controls involuntary body functions.

Question 10

sympathetic

Answer 10

nervous system arouses the body to expend energy

Question 11

parasympathetic

Answer 11

controls calms body to conserve energy

Question 12

thalamus

Answer 12

It’s known as a relay station of all incoming motor (movement) and sensory information — hearing, taste, sight and touch (but not smell) — from your body to your brain.

Question 13

hypothalamus

Answer 13

life support center of he body, regulates bio chemistry, controls breathing and heart rate, controls the pituitary

Question 14

the 4 F

Answer 14

fight, flight, food, fornication

Question 15

hyppocampus

Answer 15

memories

Question 16

Amygdala

Answer 16

fear, agression

Question 17

corpuscolosum

Answer 17

controlls both sides of the brain

Question 18

pituitary gland

Answer 18

controlls the hormones, endocrine

Question 19

pineal gland

Answer 19

makes you sleep

Question 20

medula oldongata

Answer 20

breathing

Question 21

PONS

Answer 21

dreams, facial expresions

Question 22

4 lobes of the cortex

Answer 22

frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

Question 23

cerebral cortex

Answer 23

the top 1/4 of an inch of the cerebrum

Question 24

Neuron

Answer 24

defined as a single cell, the building block of the nervous system.

Question 25

Soma

Answer 25

body of the neurone/cell body

Question 26

Aendrites

Answer 26

fiber extensions off the soma that have receptor sites on them

Question 27

Receptor sites

Answer 27

locations along acendrites that recieve incoming neurotransmitters chemical

Question 28

Axon

Answer 28

an extension off the soma that varies in lenght from microscopic to 2-3 feet long. it is down the axon that the electral impulse travels

Question 29

Terminal branch

Answer 29

branching structures at the end of axons that have a bulb on the tip

Question 30

Bulb

Answer 30

they have sacks inside them

Question 31

NT

Answer 31

chemical that leaves the neurons to doc a receptor sites

Question 32

myelin sheat

Answer 32

white fatty substance that encases and insolates axons It allows the optimum transition of the electrical impulse, down the axol

Question 33

Nodes of Ranvier

Answer 33

space between the myelin sheat

Question 34

Synapsei

Answer 34

gaps between neurons

Question 35

Actron potential

Answer 35

Fireing of a neutron

Question 36

Reaur Take

Answer 36

exece neurotransmiter taken back in by the neuron that fire it