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Unit 2 Flashcards

1
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EEG

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Readout of waves in brain

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CT

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X Ray pics revealing brain damage

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PET

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Shows brain activity by consumption of glucose

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MRI

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aligns spinning atoms of brain, pics of soft brain tissue

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5
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FMRI

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Reveals structure and functioning

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6
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Our brain is wired by

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Our experience

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7
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Biologist psychologists

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Study biological activity and psychological events

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8
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Neuron

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Basic building block of nervous system

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9
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Neurons carry incoming information from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal

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Sensory neurons

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10
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Neurons that carry outgoing information from brain to spinal cord to muscles and glands

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Motors neurons

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11
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Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally

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Interneurons

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12
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Insulates accent and speeds of process

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Myelin sheath

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13
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Action potential

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Electrical charge that travels down the axon

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14
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Not mixing, before the message held out and sent

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Resting potential

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15
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Generate electricity from chemical events…

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Involves exchange of ions

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16
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Outside axon membrane vs inside

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O: positive ions
I: negative ions

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17
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Chemical messengers

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Neurotransmitters

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18
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Meeting point between neurons

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Synapse

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19
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When action potential reaches the end of the axon…

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Sends neurotransmitters

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20
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Swelling on brainstem is…

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Medulla , controls heart beat and breathing

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21
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Brainstem parts

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Medulla and pons

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22
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Pons

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Controls movement

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23
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How do neurons work together

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Neural networks, feedback strengthens connections

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24
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Simple motor neuron response

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Reflex

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25
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What is your bodies slow chemical communication system

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Endocrine

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26
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What is endocrine system

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System of glands that secrete hormones

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27
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Chemical messengers that affect tissues touches the brain, influence our interest on food aggression and sex

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Hormones

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28
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Adrenal glands

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Release epinephrine and norepinephrine, increase heart rate ,BP, energy source

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29
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Pituitary gland

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Produces hormones begins during puberty
Controlled by hypothalamus
Growth
Main gland

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30
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Thyroid gland

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Metabolism

31
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Mimics natural chemical

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Agonist

32
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Blocks natural chemical

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Antagonist

33
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Weed allows more what

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Dopamine, agonist

34
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Cocaine

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Blocks dopamine

35
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Alcohol

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Mimics gaba

Prevents glutamates from leaving

36
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LSD

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Mimics serotonin

37
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Heroin

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allows more dopamine

Agonist

38
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Brains switchboard, all senses but smell it sends out

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Thalamus

39
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Cerebellum

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Little Brain, helps judge time, emotions, and pick up sounds and textures
Voluntary movements

40
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What are the older brain structures

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Cerebellum thalamus and brain stem because they’re done without conscious effort’s

41
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Limbic system

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Emotions, fear, aggression
Hypothalamus, pituitary gland, amygdala, hippocampus
HHAP

42
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Amygdala

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Aggression and fear, shape Altered over time

43
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Hypothalamus

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FFFF
food 
Forhixation 
Fight flight.
Monitors blood chemistry
Hunger thirst body temp
44
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Band of fibers are on the hemispheres.

Tell us when to release sex hormones, turn hypothalamus, pituitary gland to release hormones

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Cerebral cortex

45
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Lateral hypothalamus versus ventromedial hypothalamus

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L: stimulates huger
V: suppresses hunger

46
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Hypothalamus

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Pleasure , dopamine released

47
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Worker to neurons provide nutrients

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Glial cells

48
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Speaking, muscle movements, making plans, judgment, personality

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Frontal lobe

49
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Touch sensory input as well as body position

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Parietal

50
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Occipital

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Visual

51
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Auditory, receives from opposite lobe

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Temporal

52
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Different parts of the brain are responsible for voluntary movements, send out messages

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Motor cortex

53
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Receives messages from brain from different areas

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Sensory cortex

54
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Aphasia, controls muscles in speech, control of speaking words

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Broca’s area

55
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Hearing words and understanding language

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Wernickes area

56
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Able to take visual representations and read them aloud, if damaged an individual still can read and understand language just not out loud

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Angular gyrus

57
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Permanent damages in the brain….

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Neurons won’t regenerate

58
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Neurogenesis

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Formation of new neurons, happens deep in brain

59
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Left and right hemispheres brought together by…

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Corpus callosum, band of accent fibers.

60
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Weigh effects and combination of hereditary and environment

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Behavior geneticists

61
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Environment

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How we read face expressions

62
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Threadlike made of DNA contain genes

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Chromosome

63
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Biochemical units of hereditary that will make up the chromosomes

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Genes

64
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Complete instruction for making an organism, consisting of all genetic material in organisms chromosome

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Genome

65
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Due to this humans are very close

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DNA

66
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What starts you up, puts you to bed

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Pons

67
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Talking

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Cerebrum

68
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Decision

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Frontal

69
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Walking

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Cerebellum

70
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Variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes

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Heritability

71
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Studies molecular structure and function of genes

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Molecular genetics

72
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Evolutionary psychologists

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Focus on what makes us so much alike

73
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Random series in gene replication

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Mutations

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