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Unit 2- Your Body Is A Wonderland Flashcards

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What are the four lobes?

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Occipital Lobe
Frontal Lobe
Parietal Lobe
Temporal Lobe

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Occipital

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Primary Visual Cortex

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Frontal Lobe

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Prefrontal Cortex
Broca’s Area
Motor Strip
Frontal Association Area

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Parietal

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Sensory Cortex

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Temporal Lobe

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Primary Audio Cortex

Wernikel’s Area

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Name the 11 neurotransmitters you need to know

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Acetylcholine, endorphins, norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, GABA, glutamate, enkephalins, melatonin, phenylthylamine, and oxytocin

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Hemisphere

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The halves of the brain

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Fissure

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Middle depression between the hemispheres

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Cerebral Cortex

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“Gray matter”’, responsible for higher brain functions: sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning and memory

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Corpus Callosum

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Helps each side of the brain communicate with each other, transmit info.

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What is in the hindbrain?

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The Medulla, Pons, Cerebellum

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Hindbrain

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Supports our life system, controls basic biological functions that keeps us alive

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Medulla

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Regulates vital functions: sneezing, vomiting, respiratory, and coughing. Responsible for sending messages from brain to spinal cord

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Pons

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Involved with the control of facial expressions, triggers dreams, allows you to sleepwalk

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Cerebellum

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Responsible for balance and posture, coordinates body movements, controls habitual muscle movements

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What does the Midbrain contain?

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The Reticular Formation

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Midbrain

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Coordinates simple movements with sensory info.

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Reticular Activating Formation

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Controls general body arousal and ability to focus our attention: regulates how alert or sleepy you are

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What does the Forebrain contain?

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Hippocampus and the Lymbic system?

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Forebrain

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Controls thought and reason

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Hippocampus

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Spatial awareness, memory Formation and recall. Helps you make brand new memories

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Lymbic system

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Instinctive behaviors and reactions and deep-seated emotions. Hard wired in the sensory system especially smell

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What does the Lymbic system contain?

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Thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala

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Thalamus

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Responsible for receiving the sensory signals from the spinal cord and sending them to the appropriate areas in the rest of the forebrain

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Hypothalamus

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Plays a role in conscious behavior

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Conscious behavior

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Emotions and instincts and automatic control of body system

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Amygdala

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Vital to experiences of emotions

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Occipital Lobe

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Interprets visual info./ processing including color recognition and then send info to the parietal and temporal lobe

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Primary Visual Cortex

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Helps you see/ interpret lines, shapes, and colors

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Cones

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Helps distinguish color

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Rods

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Black and white, peripheral vision, and intensity of color

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Frontal Lobe

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Responsible for thinking and decision making

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Sequencing

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Difficulty in planning

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Preservation

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Repeating same actions, loss of flexibility in thinking, mood swings

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Directs thought processes, important in foreseeing consequences

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Broca’s Area

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Responsible for controlling the muscles involved in producing speech

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Motor Strip

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Sends signals to our muscles controlling voluntary muscles, helps you move

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Frontal association Area

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Integrates personality, forms complex thoughts, engages in elaborate mental associations

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Parietal Lobe

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Visual perception, helps with touch and movement, allows for understanding

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Sensory Cortex

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Receives incoming touch

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Temporal Lobe

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Hearing, long term memory, object categorization organizes words into a sequence

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Primary Audio Cortex

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Controls basic hearing/ processes sound and how you respond emotionally to sound

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Wernikel’s Area

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Interprets written and spoken speech

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Neurotransmitter

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Chemicals that allow info to pass

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Synapse

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Sends electrical nerve impulses to each neuron

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Excitory Transmitter

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Fire an action potential

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Inhibitory Transmitter

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Block, shield

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Action potential

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Will the message send or not

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Acetylcholine

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Excitory or inhibitory. Muscle and motor movement, memory, sleep, motivation, release of growth hormone

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Endorphins

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Inhibitory. Controls pain, helps keep you calm and happy, pleasure “runners high”

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Norepinephrine

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Excitory and inhibitory. Associated with emotions, dreaming, energy, sexual arousal

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Dopamine

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Inhibitory and excitatory. Makes you happy, deals with pleasure, bliss, reward, too much leads to bipolar

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Dopamine Reward System

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Exposure to drugs lead to suppression of reward circuits, increasing the amounts needed to get the same effect.

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Serotonin

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Inhibitory. Deals with mood, self esteem, prevents depression, shield, improves sleep,

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GABA

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Inhibitory. Stops anxiety, panic, and pain

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Glutamate

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Excitatory. Memory, too much can kill you because it breaks down nervous systems

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Enkephalins

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Inhibit. Blocks transmission of pain, reduce appetite cravings, and depressed moods

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Melatonin

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Inhibit. Recuperation, regulates body clock, anti-aging, stops aging

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Phenylethylamine

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Inhibit. Feelings of bliss and feelings of infatuation, blocks things that you normally feel are unattractive or upset

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Oxytocin

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Excitatory and inhibitory. Promotes sexual arousal, feelings of emotional attachment

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Sensation

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Process of receiving info. from the environment (your senses)

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Perception

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Assembling and organizing the sensory info to make it meaningful

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Transduction

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Signals transformed into neural impulses

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Absolute threshold

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The level of sensory stimulation necessary for the sensation to occur

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Adaption

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Gradual loss of attention to unneeded or unwanted sensory info

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Sensory Habituation

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Decreasing responsiveness to stimuli that is constant

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Cocktail Party Phenomenon

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Ability to focus auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out the other stimuli

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Single Detection Theory

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Investigates the distraction and interferences we experiences we perceive the world

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False Positive

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Whenever we think we perceive a stimulus that is not really there

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False Negative

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Not perceiving a stimulus when it is present

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Top Down Processing

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We perceive by filling in the gap in what we sense. Use background knowledge to fill in the gaps to perceive a situation

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Bottom Up Perceiving

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Opposite of top down processing. Use only the features of the object itself to build a complete perception

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Extra Sensory Perception

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Belief that one can have a perceptual experience without any sensory input

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Subliminal Messages

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Stimuli below our absolute threshold

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