PSYCH Midterm
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| show | Traits influenced by combinations of genes
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| show | Determined by the sequencing of chemicals in one’s DNA
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| show | The manner in which genetic code appears as a function of experiences and environmental influences
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| Down Syndrome | show 🗑
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| Monozygotic twins | show 🗑
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| Dizygotic twins | show 🗑
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| Dendrite | show 🗑
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| show | Carry messages away from the cell body (trunk
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| show | Bulb-shaped structures at the end of the axons
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| show | Fatty substance around axons that facilitate conduction
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| Glial cells | show 🗑
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| Depolarized | show 🗑
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| show | Each neuron has a threshold; the cell will not fire until the threshold is reached
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| All-or-none principle | show 🗑
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| Refractory period | show 🗑
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| Synapse | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | Site on receiving neuron where specific neurotransmitter fits
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| show | Sending neuron reabsorbs neurotransmitters
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| Excitatory | show 🗑
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| Inhibitory | show 🗑
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| show | Decreases in ACh is associated with Alzheimer's related memory problems
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| show | Affects voluntary movements, learning, memory and arousal
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| show | Produced largely in the brain stem; acts as a neurotransmitter and as a hormone;
Involved in general arousal, learning and memory, and eating; linked to mood disorders
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| show | Involved in emotional arousal and sleep; Deficiencies have been linked to eating disorders, alcoholism, depression, aggression, and insomnia
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| Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) | show 🗑
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| Endorphins | show 🗑
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| Nerve | show 🗑
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| Central nervous system | show 🗑
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| Peripheral nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Afferent and efferent neurons that transmit sights, sounds, smells, temperature, body positions, etc.; Purposeful body movements
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| show | “Automatic” regulates the glands and internal organ muscles: heartbeat, respiration, digestion, dilation of the pupils, etc.
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| show | Active during processes that involve spending body energy; fight or flight
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| Parasympathetic division | show 🗑
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| show | Spinal reflexes: unlearned responses to a stimulus that may involve only two neurons: afferent and efferent
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| show | A third neuron that transmits the neural impulse from the sensory neuron through the spinal cord to the motor neuron
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| Gray matter | show 🗑
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| White matter | show 🗑
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| Electroencephalograph (EEG) | show 🗑
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| show | Regulates vital functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration
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| show | Transmits information about body movements and is involved in functions related to attention, sleep/alertness and respiration
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| show | Involved in maintaining balance and controlling motor behavior
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| show | Vital in the functions of attention, sleep and arousal
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| show | Relay station for sensory stimulation
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| show | Includes the amygdala, hippocampus, and parts of the hypothalamus; Involved in memory, emotion and in the drives of hunger, sex and aggression
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| Amygdala | show 🗑
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| show | Responsible for thinking and language
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| show | A bundle of some 200 million nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres
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| show | Cerebrum’s outer layer is about 1/8 inch thick. It is involved in bodily activities, sensations, and responses.
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| Frontal lobe | show 🗑
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| show | Behind central fissure.; Contains the somatosensory cortex, which receives messages from skin senses all over the body
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| Temporal lobe | show 🗑
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| Occipital lobe | show 🗑
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| show | Implicated in growth
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| show | Regulates maternal behavior in lower animals such as rats; also produces milk in women
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| Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) | show 🗑
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| show | Stimulates labor in pregnant women
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| Melatonin | show 🗑
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| Thyroxin | show 🗑
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| show | Release hormones to increase resistance to stress; Promote muscle development and the release of sugar in the liver, making more energy available
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| show | Those characteristics involved in reproduction: increased penis size and sperm-producing ability of the testes
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| Secondary sex characteristics | show 🗑
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