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Unit 2- Your Body Is A Wonderland Flashcards

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What are the four lobes?

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Occipital Lobe
Frontal Lobe
Parietal Lobe
Temporal Lobe

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Occipital

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Primary Visual Cortex

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Frontal Lobe

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Prefrontal Cortex
Broca’s Area
Motor Strip
Frontal Association Area

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Parietal

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Sensory Cortex

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Temporal Lobe

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Primary Audio Cortex

Wernikel’s Area

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Name the 11 neurotransmitters you need to know

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Acetylcholine, endorphins, norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, GABA, glutamate, enkephalins, melatonin, phenylthylamine, and oxytocin

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Hemisphere

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The halves of the brain

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Fissure

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Middle depression between the hemispheres

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Cerebral Cortex

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“Gray matter”’, responsible for higher brain functions: sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning and memory

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Corpus Callosum

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Helps each side of the brain communicate with each other, transmit info.

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What is in the hindbrain?

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The Medulla, Pons, Cerebellum

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Hindbrain

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Supports our life system, controls basic biological functions that keeps us alive

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Medulla

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Regulates vital functions: sneezing, vomiting, respiratory, and coughing. Responsible for sending messages from brain to spinal cord

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Pons

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Involved with the control of facial expressions, triggers dreams, allows you to sleepwalk

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Cerebellum

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Responsible for balance and posture, coordinates body movements, controls habitual muscle movements

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What does the Midbrain contain?

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The Reticular Formation

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Midbrain

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Coordinates simple movements with sensory info.

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Reticular Activating Formation

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Controls general body arousal and ability to focus our attention: regulates how alert or sleepy you are

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What does the Forebrain contain?

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Hippocampus and the Lymbic system?

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Forebrain

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Controls thought and reason

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Hippocampus

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Spatial awareness, memory Formation and recall. Helps you make brand new memories

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Lymbic system

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Instinctive behaviors and reactions and deep-seated emotions. Hard wired in the sensory system especially smell

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What does the Lymbic system contain?

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Thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala

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Thalamus

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Responsible for receiving the sensory signals from the spinal cord and sending them to the appropriate areas in the rest of the forebrain

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Hypothalamus
Plays a role in conscious behavior
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Conscious behavior
Emotions and instincts and automatic control of body system
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Amygdala
Vital to experiences of emotions
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Occipital Lobe
Interprets visual info./ processing including color recognition and then send info to the parietal and temporal lobe
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Primary Visual Cortex
Helps you see/ interpret lines, shapes, and colors
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Cones
Helps distinguish color
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Rods
Black and white, peripheral vision, and intensity of color
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Frontal Lobe
Responsible for thinking and decision making
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Sequencing
Difficulty in planning
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Preservation
Repeating same actions, loss of flexibility in thinking, mood swings
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Prefrontal Cortex
Directs thought processes, important in foreseeing consequences
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Broca's Area
Responsible for controlling the muscles involved in producing speech
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Motor Strip
Sends signals to our muscles controlling voluntary muscles, helps you move
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Frontal association Area
Integrates personality, forms complex thoughts, engages in elaborate mental associations
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Parietal Lobe
Visual perception, helps with touch and movement, allows for understanding
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Sensory Cortex
Receives incoming touch
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Temporal Lobe
Hearing, long term memory, object categorization organizes words into a sequence
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Primary Audio Cortex
Controls basic hearing/ processes sound and how you respond emotionally to sound
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Wernikel's Area
Interprets written and spoken speech
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Neurotransmitter
Chemicals that allow info to pass
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Synapse
Sends electrical nerve impulses to each neuron
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Excitory Transmitter
Fire an action potential
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Inhibitory Transmitter
Block, shield
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Action potential
Will the message send or not
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Acetylcholine
Excitory or inhibitory. Muscle and motor movement, memory, sleep, motivation, release of growth hormone
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Endorphins
Inhibitory. Controls pain, helps keep you calm and happy, pleasure "runners high"
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Norepinephrine
Excitory and inhibitory. Associated with emotions, dreaming, energy, sexual arousal
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Dopamine
Inhibitory and excitatory. Makes you happy, deals with pleasure, bliss, reward, too much leads to bipolar
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Dopamine Reward System
Exposure to drugs lead to suppression of reward circuits, increasing the amounts needed to get the same effect.
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Serotonin
Inhibitory. Deals with mood, self esteem, prevents depression, shield, improves sleep,
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GABA
Inhibitory. Stops anxiety, panic, and pain
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Glutamate
Excitatory. Memory, too much can kill you because it breaks down nervous systems
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Enkephalins
Inhibit. Blocks transmission of pain, reduce appetite cravings, and depressed moods
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Melatonin
Inhibit. Recuperation, regulates body clock, anti-aging, stops aging
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Phenylethylamine
Inhibit. Feelings of bliss and feelings of infatuation, blocks things that you normally feel are unattractive or upset
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Oxytocin
Excitatory and inhibitory. Promotes sexual arousal, feelings of emotional attachment
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Sensation
Process of receiving info. from the environment (your senses)
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Perception
Assembling and organizing the sensory info to make it meaningful
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Transduction
Signals transformed into neural impulses
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Absolute threshold
The level of sensory stimulation necessary for the sensation to occur
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Adaption
Gradual loss of attention to unneeded or unwanted sensory info
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Sensory Habituation
Decreasing responsiveness to stimuli that is constant
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Cocktail Party Phenomenon
Ability to focus auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out the other stimuli
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Single Detection Theory
Investigates the distraction and interferences we experiences we perceive the world
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False Positive
Whenever we think we perceive a stimulus that is not really there
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False Negative
Not perceiving a stimulus when it is present
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Top Down Processing
We perceive by filling in the gap in what we sense. Use background knowledge to fill in the gaps to perceive a situation
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Bottom Up Perceiving
Opposite of top down processing. Use only the features of the object itself to build a complete perception
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Extra Sensory Perception
Belief that one can have a perceptual experience without any sensory input
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Subliminal Messages
Stimuli below our absolute threshold

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