Biological Foundations of Behavior
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| The body's electrochemical communication circuitry, made of billions of interconnected cells. | show 🗑
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| The brain's special capacity for modifications and change | show 🗑
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| show | Afferent Nerves
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| show | Efferent Nerves
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| Neural Networks | show 🗑
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| show | The brain and spiral chord.
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| PNS | show 🗑
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| Somatic Nervous System | show 🗑
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| show | The division of PNS that communicates with the body's internal organs and monitors processes such as breathing, heart rate, and digestion. Include's sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
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| Sympathetic NS | show 🗑
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| show | The division of the automatic NS that calms the body
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| show | Nerves cells that are specialized for processing information. Neurons are the basic units of the NS
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| show | Cells that provide support and nutritional benefits in the NS
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| show | The part of the neuron that contains the nucleus, which directs the manufacture of substance that the neuron needs for growth and maintenance
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| show | Branches of a neuron that receive and orient information toward the cell body, most neurons have numerous dendrites
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| show | The part of the neuron that carries information away from the cell body to other cells.
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| Myelin Sheath | show 🗑
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| Resting Potential | show 🗑
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| Action Potential | show 🗑
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| show | The idea that once an electrical impulse reaches a certain level of intensity , it fires and moves all the way down the axon without losing any of its intensity.
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| show | Tiny junctions between 2 neurons generally where the axon of one neuron meets the dendrites or cell body of another neuron
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| Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| show | A drug that mimics or increases a neurotransmitter's effects.
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| show | A drug that blocks a neurontransmitter's effects.
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| Reticular formation | show 🗑
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| Brain stem | show 🗑
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| Forebrain | show 🗑
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| Limbic System | show 🗑
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| Thalamus | show 🗑
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| show | Controls and coordinate voluntary movements
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| show | Highest level of the forebrain, where the highest mental functions, such as thinking and planning, take place.
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| Occipital Lobe | show 🗑
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| show | Involved in hearing, language, processing and memory.
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| show | Involved in voluntary muscles, intelligence and personality
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| show | Involved in attention, motor control and registering spatial location
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| show | Area of the cerebral cortex that processes information about body sensations.
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| Motor Cortex | show 🗑
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| Association Cortex | show 🗑
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| Corpus Callosum | show 🗑
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| Endocrine System | show 🗑
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| Hormones | show 🗑
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| show | An important endocrine gland at the base of the skull that controls growth and regulates other glands
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| Adrenal Gland | show 🗑
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| show | The response of individuals to change in circumstances and events that threaten their coping abilities
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| show | Circumstances and events that threaten individuals and tax their coping abilities
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