Psychology Chapter 2
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| show | An extensive network of specialized cells that carry information to and from all parts of the body
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| Neuroscience | show 🗑
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| Neuron | show 🗑
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| show | Dendrites: branch-like structures that receive messages from other neurons
Soma: the cell body of neuron, responsible for maintaining the life of the cell
Axon: tube-like structures that carries the neural message to other cells
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| Glial cells | show 🗑
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| Myelin | show 🗑
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| Ions | show 🗑
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| Inside neuron | show 🗑
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| show | Positively charged
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| show | The state of the neuron when not firing a neural impulse
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| Action potential | show 🗑
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| show | Rounded areas at the end of the branches at the end of the axon. Also responsible for communicating with other nerve cells
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| Synaptic vesicles | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| Synapse/Synaptic gap | show 🗑
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| Receptor sites | show 🗑
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| show | neurotransmitter that causes the receiving cell to fire
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| Inhibitory neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| Acetylcholine | show 🗑
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| Serotonin | show 🗑
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| show | - Main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain
- Decreases nervous system arousal
- Helps induce relaxation and sleep and calm anxiety
- contributes to motor control, vision, and other cortical functions
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| Glutamate | show 🗑
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| Epinephrine | show 🗑
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| Endorphins | show 🗑
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| Sensory neuron | show 🗑
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| Motor neuron | show 🗑
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| Interneuron: | show 🗑
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| Neuroplasticity | show 🗑
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| show | All nerves and neurons that are not contained in the brain and spinal cord but that run through the body itself
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| Somatic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Nerves coming from the sensory organs to the CNS consisting of sensory neurons
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| show | Division of the PNS consisting of nerves that control all of the involuntary muscles, organs, and glans
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| Sympathetic division (fight-or-flight system) | show 🗑
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| Parasympathetic division | show 🗑
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| Computed tomography (CT) | show 🗑
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| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | show 🗑
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| show | records electric activity of the brain below specific areas of the skull
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| show | Radioactive sugar is injected into the subject and a computer compiles a color-coded image of brain activity of the brain; lighter colors indicate more activity
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| show | First large swelling at the top of the spinal cord, forming the lowest part of the brain. Responsible for life-sustaining functions such as breathing, swallowing, and heart rate
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| show | Larger swelling above the medulla that connects the top of the brain to the bottom. Plays a part in sleep, dreaming, left-right body coordination, and arousal
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| show | area of neurons running through the middle of the medulla and the pons and slightly beyond. Responsible for selective attention
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| Limbic system | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the limbic system located in the center of the brain. Relays sensory information from the lower part of the brain to the propter areas of the cortex
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| show | Curved structure located within each temporal love. Responsible for the formation for long-term memories and the storage of memory for location of objects
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| show | glands that secrete chemicals called hormones directly into the bloodstream by endocrine glands
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| Hormones | show 🗑
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| show | gland located in the brain the secretes human growth hormone and influences all other hormone-secreting glands (also known as the master gland)
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| show | Endocrine gland located near the base of the cerebrum that secreted melatonin
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| Thyroid gland | show 🗑
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| show | endocrine gland that controls the levels of sugar in the blood
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| Gonads | show 🗑
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| Ovaries | show 🗑
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| Testes | show 🗑
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| Adrenal glands | show 🗑
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| Left Hemisphere | show 🗑
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| show | Controls the left hand
Nonverbal
Visual-spatial perception
Music and artistic processing
Emotional thought and recognition
Processes the whole
Pattern Recognition
Facial recognition
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