Physiological Psych Flashcards

(29 cards)

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Heritability

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Likelihood of jeans getting passed to the next generation

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Epigenetic’s

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Genes that turn on or off based on the environment

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Central nervous system

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Exists to interact with environment

Centers all over body

CMS make sense of input and output senses

Brain and spinal cord

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Soma

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Creates energy neurotransmitters made here

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Sensory neurons

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Sensory systems that have specialized dendrites, photons, pressures

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Axon Hillock

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Sodium snakes in and change his balance of about 10 MV. Sodium ask as trigger to open gates

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Depolarization

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-70mv to -60 mv

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Hyperpolarization

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I am gates open up, sodium goes in, up to 40 MV

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Action potential

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Process of deep polarization and hyperpolarization

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Glia cells

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Microglia – CNc– Act as immune system for bran new paragraph

astrocytes– Structural support – create blood brain barrier

Oligodendrocytes – create myelin sheath! Schwann cells

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Gray matter

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So bodies\nuclei – cortex

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White matter

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Mylinated axons\tracts

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Occipital lobe

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Processes visual information

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Temporal lobe

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Processes auditory, verbal

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Frontal lobe

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Executive functions

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Parietal lobe

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Visual spatial organization

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Cerebellum

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Involved with motor functions

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Pons

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Sensory processing and translating

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Proliferation

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Creation of neurons until age 3

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Neurogenesis

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Creation of new neurons

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Golgi stain

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Nissan stain

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Cell bodies -some , grey matter

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Markers

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Molecules that attached to other molecules the seller uses

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Structural imagine

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Functional imaging
Direct – E.g. – MEG Indirect – PET attaches to glucose SPECT attaches to oxygen FMRI
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Antagonist
Any substance that decreases the effectiveness of neurotransmitters
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Agonist
Any substance that enhances the effectiveness of a nerd transmitters
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Isotropic
Short term effect
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Met a bow tropic
Long term effect