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Name some effects that the sympathetic nervous system has on the body? Increased heart rate, increased sweating, vascoconstriction, dilated eyes.
What is the sympathetic nervous system better suited for? Fight or flight.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system better suited for? Rest and digest.
What does the blood-brain barrier do? Stops harmful substances leaving the blood close to the brain.
What is the cerebrum? The highly folded part of the brain.
Where doe neurons and muscles meet? Neuromuscular junctions.
How is creatine phosphate used to produce ATP in muscle? Creatine phosphate + ADP = Creatine + ATP
What is a glial cell? A cell within the nervous system that is not a neuron e.g. schwann cell.
What is in the center of a spinal cord? Cemebro-spinal fluid.
What are the 3 membranes which surround the spinal cord and brain called? Meninges.
Where are sensory neuron cell bodies located? Outside the spinal cord in the dorsal root ganglia.
What does the autonomic nervous system do? It carries impulses to all internal organs.
Name the two components which the autonomic nervous system is divided up into? Parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system.
Define ethology. The study of animal behavior in its environment.
What does innate mean? Inborn behavior, hard wired genetically.
Give 3 examples of innate behavior. Escape reflex, kineses and taxes.
What is kineses? A response to an environmental factor which effects the animals movement e.g. woodlice.
What is taxes? Same as kineses but animals move in a direction, not just randomly e.g. away from a light source.
What is habituation learning? When an animal learns not to respond to a repeated stimulus.
What is imprinting learning? Early in an animals life, it selects an object or organism to stay near, as if it was its mother.
What is classical conditioning learning? When an animal responds to a stimulus differently then normal e.g. dog produces saliva when it hears bell.
What is operant conditioning/ When animals learn to carry out behavior that makes something good happen.
What is insight learning? using memories to produce a response that achieves an award e.g. monkey in cage.
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