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Week 3+4 biological Bases Of Behaviour And Mental Processes Flashcards

1
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What is the peripheral nervous system?

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Carries messages to and from the central nervous system

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What is the graded potential?

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Are the spreading voltage changes along the cell membrane that occur as the neuron is the firing of the neuron or a nerve impulse

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What transmits information from one neuron to another as they are released into the synapse, what is it called?

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Neurotransmitters

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Motor neurons

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Transmits commands from the brain to the glands and muscles of the body

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What connects neurons with one another?

What is it called?

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Interneurons

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What is a neuron?

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Generally have a cell body, dendrites and an axon that carries information to other neurons

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What are the two subdivisions of peripheral nervous system?

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Somatic and autonomic nervous system

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Somatic nervous system?

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Carries sensory information to the brain and motor neurons that direct the action of skeleton muscles

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What nervous system controls the basic life processes such as heart beat and breathing?

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Autonomic nervous system

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The autonomic nervous system consists of two parts what are they called and what do they do?

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The sympathetic nervous system activated in response to threats and the parasympathetic nervous system involved in routine activities

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Endocrine system?

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Is a collection of glands that control various bodily functions through the secretion of hormones, sends global messages through the bloodstream

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Carries out reflexes, transmits sensory information to the brain and transmits messages from the brain to the muscles and organs
What is it?

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The spinal cord?

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What is the medulla oblongata?

What part of the body does it belong to?

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Extension of spinal cord that regulates heartbeat, circulation and respiration
Hindbrain

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What parts are involved in the hindbrain?

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Medulla oblongata
Cerebellum
Reticular formation
Pons

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What is the cerebellum?

Where does it belong?

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Involved in movement, learning and sensory discrimination

Hindbrain

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What is sensory neurons?

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Carry sensory information from sensory receptors to the central nervous system

17
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A network of neurons involved in consciousness and arousal what is it called?
Where is this is the brain?

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Reticular formation

Hindbrain

18
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What are pons?

Where do they belong?

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Links medulla oblongata and cerebellum with upper part of brainstem
Hindbrain

19
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What is part of the midbrain?

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Tectum
Tegmentum
Plays an important role in learning to produce behaviours that minimize unpleasant consequences and maximize pleasant consequences

20
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What is a tectum?

Where is it located?

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Involved in orienting to visual and auditory stimuli

Midbrain

21
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What is the tegmentum?

Where is it located?

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Is involved in movement and arousal

Midbrain

22
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What is part of the forebrain?

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Hypothalamus
Thalamus
Basal ganglia

23
Q

Helps to regulate eating, sleeping, sexual activity and emotional experiences?
Where is it located?

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Hypothalamus

Forebrain

24
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What is a thalamus?

Where is it located?

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Processes incoming sensory information and transmits it to higher brains areas
Forebrain

25
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What is a basal ganglia?

Where is it located?

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Involved in the control of movement and also plays in ‘automatic’ responses and judgements
Forebrain

26
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What system is the septal area, amygdala, hippocampus in?

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Limbic system

27
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Septal area?

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Involved in pleasure relief from pain, emotionally significant learning
Limbic system

28
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Amygdala what is it?

Where is it located?

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Involved in learning and remembering emotionally significant events and recognition of fear
Limbic system

29
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What is the hippocampus?

Where is it located?

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Involved in the storage of new memories

Limbic system

30
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What is the heritability?

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Refers to the proportion of variability amoung individuals on an observed characteristic that can be accounted for by genetic variability

31
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What are the functions of cerebral cortex?

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Provides for flexible control of patterns of movement
Permits subtle discrimination amoung complex sensory patterns
Makes possible symbolic thinking

32
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What are the four sets of lobes in the cerebral cortex?

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Occipital lobes
Pariental lobes
Frontal lobes
Temporial lobes

33
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The primary and association areas of the cortex are involved in…

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The complex mental processes such as perception and thinking

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