Neuroscience and Behavior - AP Psychology, Chapter 2
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| Frontal lobe | show 🗑
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| show | Controls movement and orientation as well as deals with the reception of stimuli like touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.
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| show | Controls auditory, memory, and speech functions
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| Occipital lobe | show 🗑
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| Right and left hemispheres | show 🗑
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| show | The outer layer of the cerebrum, includes sensory and motor areas
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| Amygdala | show 🗑
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| show | Joins the hemispheres and helps in communication
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| Hippocampus | show 🗑
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Lateral hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Ventromedial hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| Thalamus | show 🗑
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| show | Controls basic drives such as those for food and sex (the hypothalamus), fear/agression (the amygdala), and memory (the hippocampus)
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| show | Part of the limbic system that lies in the cortex
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| show | Controls visceral actions like heart/breathing rate and coughing
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| Pons | show 🗑
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| show | Includes midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongada, connects the brain to the spinal cord
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| Reticular formation (RAS) | show 🗑
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| Cerebellum | show 🗑
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| Motor cortex | show 🗑
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| Sensory cortex | show 🗑
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| show | Integrate information and associate input with memories - don't produce any observable response when stimulated
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| show | Controls speech muscles
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| show | Controls language reception
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| Aphasia | show 🗑
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| show | The ability of the brain to make new connections/modify itself after damage
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| show | The process through which neurons are generated, mostly during pre-natal development
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| show | Transforms written words into an auditory code that is received and understood in Wernicke's area
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| show | Reads the brain's electric waves of activity
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| CT/CAT scan | show 🗑
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| show | Depicts brain activity by showing different areas' consumption of glucose
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| MRI | show 🗑
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| show | Uses MRI technology to show brain functions by depicting blood flow to the brain
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| show | Nerve cells that transmit impulses
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| Glial cells | show 🗑
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| show | Pick up sensory information
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| Motor/efferent neurons | show 🗑
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| show | Carry information between sensory and motor neurons
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| show | Small branches off the cell body that receive messages and send them to the cell body
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| show | Protects and insulated the axon, speeds up messages
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| Terminal buttons | show 🗑
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| Action potential | show 🗑
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| Threshold/neural firing | show 🗑
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| Synapse/synaptic gap | show 🗑
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| show | Excitatory signals are like accelerators; inhibitory are like brakes
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| Reuptake | show 🗑
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| show | A neuron either doesn't fire at all or fires down the complete length of a cell
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| Acetylcholine | show 🗑
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| show | Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion (excessive levels are linked to schizophrenia)
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| Endorphins | show 🗑
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| GABA | show 🗑
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| Serotonin and SSRI | show 🗑
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| show | Neurons strengthen connections after repeated firing
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| Neural network | show 🗑
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| show | Agonist - a chemical that intensifies the actions of a neurotransmitter
Antagonist - a chemical that opposes/blocks the actions of a neurotransmitter
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| Adrenal gland | show 🗑
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| show | Hormone produced by the adrenal glands in response to stress
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| show | Chemical messengers that travel through the blood stream until they reach certain tissues
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| show | Lowers blood glucose, causing hunger signals
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| Pituitary gland | show 🗑
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| Thyroid gland | show 🗑
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| Central nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Consists of cranial and spinal nerves
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| Somatic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Transmits messages to involuntary muscles and glands
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| Sympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the autonomic nervous system, calms you down
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| Opposing tendencies | show 🗑
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| Reflex | show 🗑
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| Dual processing | show 🗑
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| show | Rod ran through this frontal lobe, he retained his abilities but lost his personality
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| show | Founded phrenology, pseudoscience that claimed to be able to determine your intelligence and abilities based on the size and shape of different parts of your skull
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| Egas Moniz | show 🗑
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