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Question | Answer |
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frontal lobe | reasoning, planning, POS, movement, emotion, problem solving |
occipital lobe | aspects of vision |
parietal lobe | touch, pressure, temperature, pain |
temporal lobe | hearing, memory |
neuron | a neuron is made up of a cell body and branches called dendrites, and axons. Any message carried by a is called an impulse |
dendrite | receive impulses from other neurons and send them to cell body |
axon | carry impulses away from cell body |
synapse | to mve from one neuron to the next, an impulse crosses a small space called a----when an impulse reaches the end of an axon it releases a chemical. the chemical flows across the synaps and stimulates the impulse in the dendrite of the next neuron. |
sensory neurons | receive information and send impulses to the brain or spinal cord. |
motor neurons | conduct the impulses from the brain or spinal cord to muscles and glands through out body. |
CNS | (central nervous system) brain and spinal cord. |
PNS | (peripheral nervous system) all of the nerves outside of the CNS |
reflex | involuntary, automatic response to a stimulus. respond without having to think. |