Chapter 2 Psychology Brain and Behavior Flashcards

1646737905	Nervous System	the body's electro chemical circuitry	0
1646737906	Plasticity	brain's capacity for change	1
1646737907	efferent nerves	allow you to move	2
1646737908	Neural Networks	input from eyes to brain passes through many _____	3
1646737909	Peripheral Nervous System	connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body	4
1646737910	Somatic Nervous System	coveys info from skin to muscles to the central nervous system; pain and temp	5
1646737911	Autonomic Nervous System	controls heart rate, breathing and digestion	6
1646737912	Sympathetic and Parasympathetic	The two divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System	7
1646737913	Sympathetic	butterflies in tummy, increased heart rate	8
1646737914	Parasympathetic	calms you down	9
1646737915	Corticosteroids	stress hormones	10
1646737916	acute stress	momentary stress, occurs in response to life experience	11
1646737917	Glial Cells	they provide support and nutritional benefits to the Nervous System	12
1646737918	cell body	contains the nucleus	13
1646737919	firing	Neuron sends an action potential it is said to be ____	14
1646737920	All or Nothing Principle	the principle that once the electrical impulse reaches a certain level of intensity it fires and moves all the way down the axon without losing intensity	15
1646737921	synapses	tiny spaces between neurons	16
1646737922	Norepinephrine	Inhibits the firing of neurons in the CNS excites the heart muscles-	17
1646737923	low Acetylcholine (ACH)	Alzheimer's	18
1646737924	Low levels of Dopamine	Lead to Parkinson's	19
1646737925	endorphins	natural opiates	20
1646737926	Oxytocin	love- social bonding	21
1646737927	Agonist	increases a neurotransmitters effects	22
1646737928	Antagonist	block a neurotransmitters effect	23
1646737929	EEG	when you place electros on scalp	24
1646737930	PET Scan	monitors glucose in various areas of brain -	25
1646737931	FMRI	allows to see the brain working	26
1646737932	medulla pons and cerebellum	Parts of the hindbrain	27
1646737933	cerebellum	balances gives muscle coordination	28
1646737934	medulla	regulates breathing and heart rate	29
1646737935	Forebrain	Largest division of the brain	30
1646737936	amygdala	Discrimination of objects needed for survival such as food emotional awareness	31
1646737937	Basil ganglion	) Large neuron clusters above the Thalamus under cerebral cortex - control and coordinate voluntary movement-	32
1646737938	Hypothalamus	monitors eating, drinking and sex and emotion and stress	33
1646737939	Cerebral Cortex	Complex mental functions such as planning thinking	34
1646737940	Frontal Lobes	Personality intelligence, and control of voluntary muscles	35
1646737941	somatosensory cortex	deals with bodily sensations	36
1646737942	association cortex	highest intellectual functions thinking	37
1646737943	Aphasia	only able to say one word	38
1646737944	Left Hemisphere	Speech and Grammar	39
1646737945	Endocrine System	consists of glands that regulate the activities of certain organs by releasing hormones into the blood stream	40
1646737946	adrenaline glands	help regulate mood	41
1646737947	Pancreas	important role in metabolism weight and insulin	42
1646737948	Substitution of function	different part of the brain takes over	43
1646737949	neurogenisis	- olfactory bulb hippocampus	44
1646737950	23	we have ____ chromosomes	45
1646737951	Genes	enable cells to reproduce and make proteins	46
1646737952	Phenotype	Hair color and eye color	47