Vocab

Question 1

Arouses the body

Answer 1

Sympathetic nervous system

Question 2

Calms the body

Answer 2

Parasympathetic nervous system

Question 3

Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands

Answer 3

Pituitary

Question 4

Produces hormone that arouses

Answer 4

Adrenal

Question 5

Affects metabolism

Answer 5

Thyroid

Question 6

Secrete hormones into the blood stream

Answer 6

Endocrine system

Question 7

Mimics neurotransmitter

Answer 7

Agonist

Question 8

Blocks neurotransmitter

Answer 8

Antagonist

Question 9

Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse

Answer 9

Threshold

Question 10

mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

Answer 10

Schizophrenia

Question 11

neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominately dopamine-producing (“dopaminergic”) neurons in a specific area of the brain called substantia nigra.

Answer 11

Parkinson’s

Question 12

Controls language expression

Answer 12

Broca’s

Question 13

No language reception

Answer 13

Wernicke’s

Question 14

Brains ability to change

Answer 14

Plasticity

Question 15

Bumps on the head to turn the personality

Answer 15

Phrenology

Question 16

Works automatically

Answer 16

Autonomic

Question 17

Sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system

Answer 17

Peripheral

Question 18

Neurotransmitters reabsorption by the sending neuron

Answer 18

Re-up take

Question 19

Amplified tracing of the waves of electrical activity in the brain

Answer 19

EEG

Question 20

Radioactive material is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain on a scanner

Answer 20

PET scan

Question 21

Detects radio frequency signals produced by displays radio waves in a Magnetic field

Answer 21

MRI

Question 22

Detects changes in blood flow to particular areas of the brain

Answer 22

fMRI

Question 23

Helps judge time,Modulate our motions, Discriminate sounds and textures

Answer 23

Cerebellum

Question 24

Random errors in gene replication

Answer 24

Mutation

Question 25

Controlled arousal, a role in respiration

Answer 25

Pons

Question 26

Help explain good feelings

Answer 26

Endorphins

Question 27

Complete instructions for making an organism

Answer 27

Genome

Question 28

Talks to the pituitary of the endocrine system to regulate eight major hormones

Answer 28

Hypothalamus

Question 29

Control memory

Answer 29

Hippocampus

Question 30

Brief electrical charge that travels down an axon

Answer 30

Action potential

Question 31

Controls emotion

Answer 31

Amygdala

Question 32

Speaking, muscle movements, and making plans and judgments

Answer 32

Frontal lobe

Question 33

Receives sensory input and for touch and body position

Answer 33

Parietal lobe

Question 34

Receives information from the visual fields

Answer 34

Occipital lobe

Question 35

Receiving information from the opposite ear

Answer 35

Temporal lobe

Question 36

Controls heartbeat and breathing

Answer 36

Medulla

Question 37

Automatic response to a sensory stimulus

Answer 37

Reflex

Question 38

Associated with emotions and drives

Answer 38

Limbic system

Question 39

The bodies electrochemical communication network

Answer 39

Nervous system

Question 40

Carrying incoming Information from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord

Answer 40

Sensory neuron

Question 41

Communicate internally and intervene between sensory inputs and motor outputs

Answer 41

Interneuron

Question 42

Carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to other muscles and glands

Answer 42

Motor neuron

Question 43

Any speech impairment

Answer 43

Aphasia

Question 44

Joins two hemispheres

Answer 44

Corpus collosum