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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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Anterior cingulate cortex

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Collar around corpus collision

Making errors may cause changes in dopamine

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2
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Basal ganglia

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Responsible for implicit learning

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3
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Cerebellum

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Attention, language and motor control, coordination-timing-precision, clap

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4
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Cochlea

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Hexagonal clusters of cilia

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5
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Corpus collosum

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Wide, flat bundle of neural fibers under the cortex

Small is dyslexic children

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6
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Dorsolateral area

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Sleep deprivation inhibits activity in this area

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7
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Frontal lobe

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Easily injured, 3 regions

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8
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Hippocampus

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Consolidation

STM into LTM

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9
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Hypothalamus

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Regulates body temp, hunger, thirst, sleep, and controls pituitary gland

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10
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LGN

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Vision pre-processing

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11
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Medulla oblongata

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Centers that control respiration, vomiting, heart rate and blood pressure

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12
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MGN

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Sound pre-processing

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13
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Occipital lobe

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Primary projection area for vision

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14
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Optic chiasm

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Cross your nose

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15
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Orbitofrontal area

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Drug cravings

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16
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Parietal lobe

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3-D view of the world, pain, touch, math processing (left for additions and subtraction, right for quantity processing)

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17
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Pineal gland

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Melatonin (more as in dark)

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18
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Pons

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Relay between thalamus, medulla and cerebellum; sleep paralysis, dreaming, taste-chewing-saliva and swallowing

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19
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Prefrontal cortex

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Contains dorsolateral, orbitofrontal and ventromedial areas

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20
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Primary motor cortex

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Voluntary movements, homunculus

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21
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Reticular formation

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Irreversible coma

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22
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Retina

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Rods, cones, horizontal, amacrine, bipolar

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23
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Secondary motor cortex

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Coordinates complex 2-hand movements

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24
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Superior temporal lobe

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Primary projection area for sound

Concentrically organized

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25
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Temporal lobe

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Language, vision, mathematics, and sound

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26
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Thalamus

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Switchboard
Regulates consciousness and sleep
Many nuclei (LGN, MGN, hypothalamus)

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27
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Ventralmedial

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Social function and emotional regulation

28
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Smooth muscle

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Liver, stomach, organs

29
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Striated muscle

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Arm, leg

30
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Both Smooth and striated muscle

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Cardiac

31
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Fast-twitch muscle

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Fatigue quickly, sprinting

32
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Slow-twitch muscle

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Distance running

33
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Stroop task

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Naming the color but not saying the word

34
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Executive process

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Ability to switch from task to task

35
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Females

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Cyclic hormone release

Look at folks more than trucks by 6 months

36
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Habituation

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Ignoring repetitive stimuli

37
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Consciousness

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All or nothing

38
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Gender

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How you identify sexually (I am a girl)

39
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Gender role

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Bake or play baseball

40
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Müllerian ducts

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Female internals

41
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Wolffian ducts

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Male internals

42
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ADHD

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Predominantly inattentive

Easy to miss

43
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Ideomotor apraxia

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Can’t copy movements

44
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Ideational apraxia

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Can’t identify object purpose (can opener)

Improperly sequence behaviors (shoes before socks)

45
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Gait apraxia

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Glued to floor

46
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Buccofacial apraxia

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Can’t whistle or lick lips

47
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Speech apraxia

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Can’t coordinate or plan speech movements

48
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Retrograde amnesia

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Can’t remember before the accident

49
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Anterograde amnesia

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Difficulty learning new things

50
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Autism

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Developmental disorder, symptoms by 3yo

51
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Bipolar disorder

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Mania once

52
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Depression

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Pulling away from friends
Trouble concentrating
Trouble sleeping
Feeling helpless
Suicidal
53
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Mania

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Elevated irritability
Extreme energy
Racing thoughts
Overconfidence
Frenzy
Risky behavior
Suicidal
54
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Mixed episode

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Mania and depressed at the same time

55
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Seasonal affective disorder

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Effects of annual cycle and sunlight

56
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Obesity

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Buffet of high calorie foods, lose interest in other rewards, eat some of all the foods, can’t pass up any option, become obese
Fructose and glucose have different gastric emptying rates, impacts on hunger, endocrine profiles, metabolic rates

57
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Panic disorder

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Influenced by genetics
More common in women and teens
Don’t give glutamate

58
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Parkinson’s disease

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Tremors, substantial nigra, more men than women

59
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PTSD

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Angry outbursts
Hyperarousal
Avoidance

60
Q

Williams syndrome

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Mental retardation but okay language

61
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Hemorrhagic stroke

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Weak blood vessel in the brain that bursts

62
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Ischemic stroke

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Blocked/clogged artery

63
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Schizophrenia - negative symptoms

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Emotional response, lack of pleasure

64
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Schizophrenia : Positive symptoms

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Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought disorders

65
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Schizophrenia

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Episodes typically start during teens, vary in intensity
Flu is a contributing factor
More likely if born in later winter, live far from the equator, low birth weight, different Rh factor, mother underweight
Hallucinations can be any sense, but usually hearing (voices)

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