Psychology Exam II
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| spinal cord and brain | ||
| the section of the nervous system lying outside the brain and spinal cord | ||
| study of biological basics of behavior | ||
| division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions | ||
| division of the nervous system that control the glands and organs; its divisions arouse or calm | ||
| language area, if there is a lision you have trouble understanding or comprehending speech | ||
| The area of the parietal lobes that processes information from sensory receptors in the skin | ||
| frontal, parietal, temporal, ocipital | ||
| sympathetic and parasympathetic | ||
| nervous system that regulates fight or flight | ||
| nervous system that calms system down | ||
| sensory neurons, spinal cord, brain, motor neurons | ||
| regulates heart rate and breathing | ||
| bridge from upper to lower brain, affects eating and facial movements | ||
| the "little brain" attached to the rear of the brainstem; it helps coordinate voluntary movement and balance | ||
| screens out information traveling from brain stem to the mid brain | ||
| medulla, pons, cerebellum, reticular activating system | ||
| substantia nigra, superior and inferior colliculus | ||
| involved in smooth initiation of movement | ||
| part of the brain that controls the response to visual stimulus | ||
| part of the brain in charge of the response to auditory stimulus | ||
| cerebral cortex, frontal lobe, motor cortex, prefrontal cortex | ||
| outer layer of brain (bark), the outer surface of the two cerebral hemispheres that regulates most complex behavior | ||
| area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements | ||
| controls speech, production of language | ||
| area of cortex at the front of the brain that specializes in the executive functions of anticipation, planning, and impulse control | ||
| a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord | ||
| this carries information from the brain to the muscles | ||
| located in the front most portion of the brain, involved with motor movements, speech, and executive functions | ||
| lobe located in the middle front area of the brain, involved with sensory stimuli and emotion | ||
| in the rear most area of the brain, area where visual information is interpreted | ||
| located above the ears, area where auditory information is interpreted | ||
| fibers that connect the two hemispheres, transfers information back and forth | ||
| part of the brain located below the lobes, above the limbic system; two sets of bulb like structures that help control movement, produce dopamine, reward for pleasurable activities | ||
| in temporal lobe; analyzes and recognizes sound | ||
| hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, cingulate cortex | ||
| part of the limbic system, in charge of 4 F's, feeding, fighting, fleeing, fornication | ||
| part of the limbic system, involved with strongest emotions, such as fear and agression | ||
| part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and forming new long-term memories | ||
| egg shaped component of the limbic system, sends information to correct portions of the brain (traffic cop) | ||
| part of the limbic system that processes cognitive information and emotion (empathy) | ||
| tube like structures in the middle of the brain filled with cerebro spinal fluid | ||
| early method (1800's) of linking the brain areas to their functions, based on bumps on the scalp and personality traits | ||
| basic communicators in the brain, over 100 billion, bundles of them make nerves | ||
| leaf like projections at the end of a neuron that receive messages from other neurons | ||
| cell body | ||
| located inside dendrites, house nucleus and DNA | ||
| long fiber that carries impulses away from the cell body of a neuron | ||
| layer of cells, develops with age, that coats axon, made of glial cells, also provides protection for axon | ||
| these form the myelin sheath | ||
| bulb at the end of the neuron holding the synaptic vesicles which contain neurotransmitters | ||
| seratonin, endorphines, dopemine | ||
| synaptic cell where neurotransmitter release occurs. | ||
| space between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrite receptors of the next neuron | ||
| synaptic cell where neurotransmitter is absorbed. | ||
| The state of a neuron when it is at rest and capable of generating an action potential, the axon is negatively charged inside, and positively charged outside | ||
| resting potential, irritability, depolarization, all or none, action potential, conduct, rest potential | ||
| the process during which the dendrite gathers information | ||
| the process during which positively charged ions flow into the axon, making it less negatively charged inside. | ||
| an action potential either occurs or doesn't (no halfway) and once triggered it travels down the axon remaining the same size | ||
| the impulse races down the axon | ||
| Electrical stimulation of brain | ||
| Electroenchephalography | ||
| Computerized Axial Tomography | ||
| Positron Emission Tomography | ||
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging | ||
| Transcranial Magnetic stimulation | ||
| magnetoecncephalography | ||
| impede or reduce neurotransmitter activity by blocking neurotransmitter binding, or speeding up re-uptake | ||
| increase neurotransmitter activity by pretending to be a certain neurotransmitter by blocking reuptake of transmitter | ||
| ESB | ||
| EEG | ||
| CAT | ||
| PET | ||
| fMRI | ||
| TMS | ||
| MEG | ||
| damage to the speech production area of the brain, causes speech to be slow | ||
| difficulty with mathematics caused by damage to parietal lobe | ||
| complete lack of attention to one side of your body, caused by damage to parietal lobe | ||
| difficulties understanding speech, disorganized speech patterns | ||
| caused by damage to basal ganglia and substantia nigra | ||
| one possibility of this condition is due to the RAS functioning improperly | ||
| caused by damage to medulla | ||
| a lack of empathy or concern for others, results in damage to cingulate cortex | ||
| caused by damage to myelin sheath |