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Quiz 2

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Statistical Significance   show
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Hindsight Bias   show
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Population   show
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show The symmetrical bell shaped curve that described the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.  
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Neuron   show
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show neurons that carrying incoming information from the sense reception to the central nervous system.  
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show central nervous system neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor outputs.  
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Dendrite   show
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show the extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscle or glands.  
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show a layer if fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next.  
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show a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon. The action potential generated by the movement of positively charge atoms in and out of channels in the axon's membrane.  
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Threshold   show
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Synapse   show
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Neurotransmitter   show
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show the reabsorption by a neuron of a neurotransmitter following the transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse  
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show "morphine within" natural, opiate like neurotransmitter linked to pain control and to pleasure.  
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show the body's speedy , electrochemical communication networks, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous system.  
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show the brain and spinal cord.  
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show the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body.  
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show the division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy.  
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