Psych Unit 3 Vocab
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| Plasticity | show 🗑
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| Neuron | show 🗑
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| Glial cell | show 🗑
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| Threshold | show 🗑
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| show | The time it takes neurons to fire again
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| All-or-none response | show 🗑
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| show | The electric potential between the inside and outside of a neuron
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| show | When a cell's charge becomes positive/less negative
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| Multiple Sclerosis | show 🗑
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| show | Excess neurotransmitters drifting away, being captured by enzymes, or being reabsorbed by the sending neuron
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| show | One that excites the neurotransmitter, causing it to fire off another message
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| show | One that blocks the chemical message from being passed along any further
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| show | A drug that inhibits reuptake
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| show | Enables muscle action, learning, and memory
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| show | Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
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| Serotonin | show 🗑
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| show | Helps control alertness and arousal
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| GABA (gamma-aminobutryic acid) | show 🗑
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| show | A major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory
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| Endorphins | show 🗑
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| show | Molecules that increase a neurotransmitter's action
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| show | Molecules that decrease a neurotransmitter's action
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| show | Regulates mood, anxiety, stress, pain, etc.
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| show | Another disease that causes weakness in a person's muscles because of an error in how nerve signals are sent to muscles
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| show | The communicating network in our body
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| show | The brain and the spinal cord
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| show | Responsible for gathering info and transmitting all of the CNS decisions to other body parts
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| show | Carry messages from tissues and sensory receptors
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| show | Carry instructions to muscles and glands
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| Interneurons | show 🗑
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| Somatic Nervous System | show 🗑
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| show | Controls glands and internal organ muscles automatically
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| show | Arouses and expends energy, for example, raising your heartbeat in a stressful situation
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| show | Conserves energy, for example, calming you down after watching a horror movie
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| Reflex | show 🗑
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| show | Chemical messengers
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| Adrenaline | show 🗑
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| show | Super important, it regulates growth and controls our endocrine glands
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Leptin | show 🗑
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| show | Hunger hormone, tells you when it's time to eat
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| show | Times circadian rhythms and sleep and shit
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| show | Causes contraction of uterus during labor and stimulates ejection of milk into the ducts of breasts (also known as the horny hormone)
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| Electroencephalogram (EEG) | show 🗑
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| show | An MRI that reveals bloodflow and therefore activity
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| show | Tissue destruction
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| Brain stem | show 🗑
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| show | Base of the brainstem (heartbeat and breathing)
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| show | On top of the brainstem (controls the senses)
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| Reticular formation | show 🗑
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| Cerebellum | show 🗑
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| Limbic system | show 🗑
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| show | Lima-bean sized neural clusters (aggression and food)
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| Hippocampus | show 🗑
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| Cerebral cortex | show 🗑
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| Frontal lobes | show 🗑
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| Parietal lobes | show 🗑
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| Occipital lobes | show 🗑
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| show | Roughly above ears, includes auditory areas, gets information from the ear on the opposite side
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| show | At the rear of the frontal lobes, controls voluntary movements
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| show | Receives and processes sensory information across the body, it's right behind the motor cortex
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| show | Different parts of the brain control different body parts
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| Prefrontal cortex | show 🗑
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| Broca's area | show 🗑
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| show | All about comprehension of language
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| Aphasia | show 🗑
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| show | Brain growth, like plasticity
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| show | A band of nerves that connects the brain's two hemispheres
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| Hemispheric specialization/Lateralization | show 🗑
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| Consciousness | show 🗑
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| show | The concentration of awareness on something
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| show | Focusing on a particular input while suppressing irrelevant information
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| show | The failure to notice something fully-visible but unexpected because attention was engaged on another task
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| show | When there is a change in a visual stimulus but the observer does not notice it
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| Cocktail Party Effect | show 🗑
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| Blindsight | show 🗑
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| show | The physical, mental, and behavioral changes an organism experiences over a 24-hour cycle
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| Jet lag | show 🗑
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| show | A part of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement accompanied by low muscle tone throughout the body and the propensity of the sleeper to dream vividly
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| show | The transitional state from wakefulness to sleep
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| show | Low-voltage fast EEG pattern of wakefulness gradually decreases to slower frequencies (N1 to N2 to N3 gets slower and slower)
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| Insomnia | show 🗑
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| Narcolepsy | show 🗑
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| Sleep apnea | show 🗑
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| show | Walking around or sometimes performing other actions while sleeping
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| REM Sleep Behavior Disorder | show 🗑
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| show | The process by which neurons become active and generate electrical impulses or signals within the nervous system
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| REM Rebound | show 🗑
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| show | The idea that sleep plays a crucial role in the process of converting short-term memories into long-term memories by strengthening neural connections
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| show | Chemicals that change perceptions and moods
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| show | Needing larger quantities of a drug for the same effect
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| show | Craving a drug, not being able to stop using it
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| show | Adverse side effects when one tries to stop taking a drug
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| show | Drugs that calm neural activity and slow body functions
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| show | Basically an addiction to alcohol
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| show | Opium and its derivatives, temporarily lessen pain and anxiety, depressants
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| Stimulants | show 🗑
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| show | A stimulant that's really powerful
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| Caffeine | show 🗑
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| Hallucinogens | show 🗑
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| show | Also known as weed, it's a mild hallucinogen
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| Endocrine System | show 🗑
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