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Psychology Chapters 3 and 4

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show Body's info system, billions of interconnected neurons  
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show Building blocks of the nervous system consists of a cell body and branching fibers  
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show Receive Information  
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show Passes information to other neurons, muscles, or glands  
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show Insulates axons and speeds their impulses  
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Sensory Neuron   show
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show Send information between sensory neurons and motor neurons most located in the CNS  
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Motor Neuron   show
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show Chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by arrival of nerve impulse  
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show Involved primarily in motor behavior  
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Norephrine   show
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Serotinin   show
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Acetylcholine   show
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show Any group of hormones secreted within the brain and NS having a number of functions  
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Peripheral NS   show
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show Transmits sensory messages to the CNS. Activated by touch, pain, temperature, and body position  
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show Controls bodily functions not conciously directed. Ex breathing, heartbeat, and digestive process  
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Sympathetic NS   show
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show Originates in the brain stem and lower part of spinal chord, slows heart, constricts, the pupils, and dialates the blood vessels.  
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Cerebellum   show
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Frontal Lobe   show
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show Areas concerned with reception and correlation of sensory information.  
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show Main centers for visual processing located in the back region of the cerebal cortex.  
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show Action of capacity of smelling; sense of smell.  
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Gestalt   show
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Size Constancy   show
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Sensory Adaption   show
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Perception   show
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Sensation   show
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show Includes areas concerned with understanding speech.  
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show Stimulation of sensory receptors and transmittion of sensory info to the brain  
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show Olfactory nerve at the base of the brain  
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Closure   show
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Illusions   show
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Absolute Threshold   show
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show Controlling growth, development, and functioning of other glands  
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Corpus Collosum   show
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Hypothalamus   show
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show Sense receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information  
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show Information processing guided by higher level mental processes  
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Signal Detection Theory   show
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