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Everything psychological is simultaneously

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Biological

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The links between biology and behavior are a key part of the

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Bio psychosocial approach

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Scientist that study these links between psychological and biological

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Biological psychologist

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Basic building blocks of the nervous system, nerve cells

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Neurons

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Extensions of the cell body that receive messages

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Dendrites

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Parts of the neuron that send messages to other neurons or cells

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Axon

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Some axons are encased in a ____ which enables faster communication

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Myelin sheath

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Provide myelin and support, nourish and protect neurons. They also may play a role in learning and thinking

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Glial cells

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Neurons transmit information in a ____ process

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Chemistry to electricity

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Neurons sends signals down their axons, and this is called

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Action potentials

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Chemical messengers

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Neurotransmitters

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The tiny gap separating a sending neuron from a receiving cell

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Synapse

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Neurons receive incoming signals through dendrites called

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Excitatory and inhibitory

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Neurons fire in this kind of response

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All or none response

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Specific neurotransmitters travel designated pathways in the brain

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Serotonin and dopamine

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Neurotransmitters effect particular behaviors and emotions such as

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Hunger, movement, and arousal

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Natural opiates released in response to pain and intense exercise

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Endorphins

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Drugs and other chemicals affect brain chemistry at

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Synapses

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Nervous system’s two major divisions

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Central nervous system, the brain spinal cord and a peripheral nervous system, the sensory and motor neurons connecting the CNS to the rest of the body

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Communicate with in the brain and spinal cord, between motor neurons and sensory neurons

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Interneurons

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In the PNS, the ___ controls voluntary movement of the skeletal system

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Somatic nervous system

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Controls the involuntary muscles and the glands

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Autonomic nervous system

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Subdivision of the peripheral nervous system

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

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Body’s slower information system that secretes hormones

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Endocrine system

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During stress or danger the ANS activates the fight or flight response from the
Adrenal gland's
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The endocrine master gland
Pituitary
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Triggers sex glands to release hormones
Pituitary
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This complex feedback system reveals the interplay between the
Nervous and endocrine systems
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The oldest part of the brain that controls automatic survival functions
Brainstem
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Controls heartbeat and breathing
Medulla
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Just about the medulla and that help coordinate movements
Pons
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Top of brainstem, acts as brain sensory control center
Thalamus
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Controls arousal and attention
Reticular formation
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Rear of brainstem, processes sensory input and coordinates muscle movement
Cerebellum
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Linked to emotions, drives, and memory
Limbic system
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Neural centers in limbic system
Hippocampus, Amygdala, and hypothalamus
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Processes conscious memories
Hippocampus
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Involved in aggressive and fearful responses
Amygdala
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Monitors various bodily maintenance activities, contains reward centers, triggers the pituitary to influence other glands
Hypothalamus
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Cerebral cortex has ____ hemispheres
Two
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Each hemisphere of the cerebral cortex has ___ Lobes
Four
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The four lobes of the cerebral cortex
Frontal lobe's, Parietal lobes , Occipital Lobes and temporal lobe's
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Located just behind forehead enable speaking, muscle movement, planning and judging
Frontal lobe's
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Top rear of head, receive sensory input for touch and body position
Parietal Lobes
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Back of head, receive input from the visual fields
Occipital Lobes
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Above the ears, receive input from the ears
Temporal lobe
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At the rear of the frontal lobe's, controls voluntary muscle movement
Motor cortex
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Front of Parietal lobes, registers and processes body touch and movement sensations
Somatosensory cortex
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Cerebral cortex is mostly ___ which integrate information related to higher level functions such as learning, remembering, thinking and speaking.
Association areas
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This allows the brain to modify itself after some types of damage, especially early in life
Plasticity
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Formation of new neurons
Neurogenesis
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A large band of nerve fibers that normally connects the two brain hemispheres
Corpus callosum
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If the corpus callosum is surgically severed this results in
Split brain
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Split brain research shows that in most people, the hemispheres are
Specialized
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Left hemisphere of split brain specializes in
Verbal processing
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Right hemisphere of split brain specializes in
Visual perception and recognition of emotion
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Awareness of ourselves and our environment
Consciousness
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Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Focus only on a small part of the world
Selective attention
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Failure to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
InAttentional blindness
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Failing to notice changes in our environment
Change blindness
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Our internal biological clock that regulates the recycles of alertness and sleep
Circadian rhythm
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Nightly sleep cycles every ___ minutes through recovering stages
90 minutes
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Sleep is the brief, near waking sleep with irregular brain waves we enter, after leaving the alpha waves of being awake and relaxed. Hallucinations, such as following are floating, may occur.
NREM-1
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Sleep in which we spend most of our time, it includes characteristic bursts of the rhythmic brain waves. Lengthens as the night goes on.
NREM-2
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Sleep is deep sleep in which large, slow delta waves are you needed. This stage shortens as the night goes on
NREM-3
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Rapid eye movement sleep that is described as a paradoxical sleep stage because of internal arousal but external calm, near paralysis. It includes most dreaming and lengthens as the night goes on.
REM
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Factors that effect sleep patterns
Lifespan, genetic, and social cultural
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Psychologist ____ suggest a possible reasons why sleepy bald
5
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Sleep helps restore and repair damaged
Neurons
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Sleep promotes ___ problem solving the next day
Creative
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During deep sleep, the ___ gland secretes a growth hormone necessary for muscle development
Pituitary
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Sleep helps strengthen __ that build enduring memories
Neural connections
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Sleep may have played a protective role in human ___ by keeping people safe during potential he dangerous.
Evolution
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Causes of sleep loss
Fatigue, irritability, impaired concentration, productivity, memory consolidation. Depression, obesity, joint pain surprised immune system, slow performance
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Major sleep disorders
Insomnia , narcolepsy, sleep apnea, sleepwalking, sleep talking and night terrors
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Reoccurring wakefulness
Insomnia
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Uncontrollable sleepiness or lapsing into REM sleep
Narcolepsy
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The stopping of breathing while asleep
Sleep Apnea
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What we dream of
Ordinary events and every day experiences. Dreams are vivid, emotional and often bizarre. Most things are bad dreams a personal failures, dangers or misfortunes
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Freuds wish fulfillment
Provide a psychic safety valve with manifest content acting as a censored version of Latent content, underlying meaning that gratifies our unconscious wishes
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When dreams help us sort out the days events and consolidate them into memory
Information processing
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Regular brain stimulation that may help us develop and preserve neural pathways in the brain
Physiological function
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Brain attempts to make sense of neural static By weaving it into a storyline
Neural activation
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Dreams reflect dreamers cognitive development, their knowledge and understanding
Cognitive development
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A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior
Biological psychology
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A nerve cell
Neuron
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Basic building block of the nervous system
Neuron
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Neuron extensions that receive messages and conduct them toward the cell body
Dendrites
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Neuron extension that sends messages to other neurons or cells
Axon
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Nerve impulse
Action potential
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Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish and neurons
Glial cells
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Junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron
Synapse
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Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse and
Threshold
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Neurons reaction of either firing or not firing
All or none response
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Neuron produced chemicals that cross synapses to carry messages to other neurons or cells
Neurotransmitters
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Chemical, such as opium, morphine, or heroin, that depresses neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety
Opiate
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Natural, opiate like to neurotransmitters linked to pain control and pleasure
Endorphins
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The bodies speedy, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells at the central and peripheral nervous system's
Nervous system
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Brain and spinal cord
Central nervous system
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Sensory and motor neurons connecting the central nervous system to the rest of the body
Peripheral Nervous system
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Bundled axons that form neural cables connecting the central nervous system with muscles, glands and sense organs
Nerves
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Neuron that carries incoming information from the sensory receptors to the central nervous system
Sensory neuron
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Neuron that carries outgoing information from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands
Motor neuron
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Neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally and process information between sensory inputs and motor outputs
Interneurons

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