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Psychology-A Concise Introduction Sixth Edition: Chapter 2 Neuroscience Flashcards

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1
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What Is Our Brain Responsible For?

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Perception, Consciousness, Memory, Language, Intelligence, & Personality (Everything that makes us human)

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About how much does the brain weigh?

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3 pounds

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The brain consists of an estimated, how many Neurons?

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100 billion

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What are nerve cells called?

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Neurons

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What is a genome?

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THe entire sequence of nucleotides in your DNA

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The totality of connections between neurons in your nervous system is called :

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Connectome

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A genome is _________ at conception. Your connectome ________ thorughout your life.

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fixed, changes

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The human brain is the most _________ device in the known universe. Therefore it’s ________ may never be completely understood.

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Complex, Complexity

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The scientific study of the brain and nervous system.

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Neuroscience

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Cellular building blocks of the nervous system

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Neurons

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The seat of higher mental functioning in humans

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The cerebral Cortex

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A natural break from consciousness

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sleep

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13
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Humans are _______ ________.

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Biological Organisms

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How we feel, perceive, learn, remember and think all stem from _________ ________.

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Neural Activity

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Crucial pieces of the puzzle of human behavior and mental processes.

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How neurons communicate and how they work

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16
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2 types of cells that the brain and nervous system are composed of.

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Neurons & Glial cells

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Responsible for information transmission throughout the nervous system.

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Neurons

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18
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Neurons ________, _______ & _________ information within the brain and the rest of the nervous sustem.

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Recieve, Send & Integrate

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19
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Glia is “greek” for what

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glue

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20
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They constitute the support system for the neurons

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Glial cells

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Glial Cells take away waste products, keep the chemical environment stable and insulate ________. Allowing them to do their work more efficiently.

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Neurons

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What is the overall ratio of neurons to glial cells in the brain? This ratio ________ across different parts of the brain.

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1:1 , differs

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23
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Glail cells communicate with Neurons but also communicate with each other in a ________ yet_____ network to the neural network

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seperate, parallel

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Cells that transmit information within the nervous system

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Neurons

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Cells in the nervous system that omprise the suppport system for the neurons.

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Glial cells (glia)

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Appear to influence the formation of neural connections to aid in determining which neural onnections get stronger or weaker over time.

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Glail Cells

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27
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Glail cells may p9lay ian important role in mental disorders such as __________ and ___________, and in ______________ _______ such as ____________ and ___________.

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Schizophrenia, Depression, Neurodegeneratiive disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s

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Neurons are srill viewed as the::

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most important cells for communication within the human nervous system.

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They all have the same basic parts and sturcture and they all operate the same way.

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Neurons

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3 main components of a neuron

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dendrites, cell body & Axon

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The fibers that project our of the cell body like the branches of a tree.

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Dendrites

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What is the main function of a dendrite?

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To receive information from other neurons, passing it on to the cell body.

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It contains the nucleus of the cell and the other biological machinery that keeps the cell alive.

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Cell body

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It decides if it should pass information on to other neurons from the dendrite by way o an Axon

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Cell Body

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The long, singular fiber leaving the cell body

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Axon

36
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What is the main function of an axon?

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to conduct information from the cell body to the axon terminals in order to trigger the transmission of information with other neurons.

37
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The longest _______s going from spinal cord to the toes.

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axon

38
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The process of how neurons commmunicate with one another ((and sometimes muscles and glands)) is partly _______ and partly _______.

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electrical, chemical

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within a neuron it’s __________ , and an acrtual elecrrical impulse is generated and travels down the axon.

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elecrrical

40
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Comunication between neurons is _________

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Chemical

41
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These don’t actually touch each other when they are relaying messages amongst each other. They are separated by a microscopic gap that chemical molecules travel across to carry their message.

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Neurons

42
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When does the electrical part of the neuronal commmunication story begin?

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with the messages received by the dendrites from other neurons.

43
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When dendrites receive messages from neurons the inputs are either __________ or __________

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Excitatory or Inhibitory

44
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telling the neuron to generate an electrical impulse

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Excitatory impulse

45
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telling the neuron not to generate an electrical impulse

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Inhibitory Impulse

46
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When will the cell body produce it’s impulse

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by continually calculating the impulses it decides when one of the impulses suffienciently outweighs the other

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When does the cell body generate the impulse?

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If the excitatory input outweighs the inhibitory input by a sufficient amount.

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What is an all-or-nothing event?

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It either happens or it doesnt

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The impulse travels from where to where and down what to get there?

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From the cell body., down the axon, to the axon terminals.

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Does the impulse have different speeds of traveling depending on the intensity of the stimulus input?

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no, always tavels at the same speed.

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The ________ of the ________ determines how many _________ generate _________ and he number of ______ that are generated each ))))) by the ________.

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The INTENSITY of the STIMULI determines how many Neurons generate IMULSES and the number of IMPULSES that are generated each SECOND by the NEURONS.

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Stronger Stimuli (a slap rather than a pat) lead to more ______ generating _____ and generating those _____more often.

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Neurons, Impulses Impulses

53
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The impulses in different neurons travel down the axon at carrying rates up to around how many piles per hour?

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200

54
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An insulating layer covering an axon that allows for faster neural impulses

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Myelin sheath

55
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The major factor that determines the impulse speed for a particular neron is whether :

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its axon is encased in a myelin sheath as insulating layer of a white fatty substance.

56
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Coomposed of glial cells that wrap around the neuron’s axon.

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57
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without a myelin sheath isn’t present?

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The impulses travel slowly down the axon in a continuous fashion. Like burning down a stick of dynamite.

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When Myelin is present and the impulses move faster, how come?

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They regenerate in the periodic gaps between Sheath where there is no Myelin

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Damage to this will cause serious problems

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The Myelin sheath

60
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Multiple Sclerosis causes deterioration of the myelin sheath that encases neuronal axons. This means that impulses can no longer lep down the ____, or eventually even travel down it. ____

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axon.. causing information transmission to be slowed.

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an unspecialized cell in the body that can develop into a specialized cell

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Stem cell

62
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IT is responsible for th3 distinction between white matter and gray matter in the brain

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Myelin

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White matter

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Myelinated axons

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Gray Matter

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Unmyelinated axons, ell bodies and dendrites

65
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a naturally occurring chemical in our nervous system that speci=iakizes in transmitting information

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neurotransmitter

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