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| What makes up the central nervous system? | The brain and spinal cord |
| Nerves that run down the length of the back and transmit most mesages between the body and the brain. | The spinal cord |
| Nerves branching out from the spinal cord. | Peripheral nervous system |
| Nerve cells are called. | Neurons |
| What is the all or none principal? | A muscle cell will contract completely or not at all. |
| These are short thin fibers taht receive nerve impulses. | dendrites |
| These are long nerve fibers that carry messages away from the nerve. | axon |
| White fatty substance that protects and insulates the nerve. | myelin sheath |
| The space between neurons is called the | synapse |
| Chemicals released by neurons which determine if teh next neuron fires or not is called a | neurotransmitter. |
| What are afferent neurons? | Sensory neurons that relay messages from the sense organs to the brain. |
| What are efferent neurons? | Motor neurons that carry impulses between neurons in the body. |
| This nervous system controls voluntary actitivies. | Somatic nervous system |
| This nervous system controls involuntary activities. | Autonomic nervous system |
| What are the three main parts of the brain? | forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain |
| This part of the brain is involved in the most basic processos of life. | hindbrain |
| This helps control posture and balance. | cerebellum |
| This part of the brain controls breathing. | medulla |
| This connects messages between the spinal cord and the brain. | pons |
| All sensory information with the exception of smell enters the __________. | thalamus |
| This controls hunger and thirst. | cerebral cortex |
| This is a band of fibers that connects teh two hemispheres. | Corpus callosum |
| Which lobe is the back of the head. | occipital |
| This lobe makes up the side fo the head. | Parietal |
| This lobe is above the ear. | Temporal |
| This lobe is in the front of the brain. | Frontal |
| Which lobe controls visual signs? | Occipital |
| This lobe is concerned with hearing, speaking, memory and emotion. | Temporal |
| This lobe is concerned with planning, organization and creative thinking. | Frontal |
| This lobe is concerned with sensory information from all over the body. | Parietal |
| This hmeisphere of the brain controls the right side of the body. | Left |
| This side of the brain is responsible for recognizing patterns, creativity, spatial ability, and intuition. | Right |
| This side fo the brain is wher speech is lobated and is also mathematical ability and logic. | Left |
| What causes an epileptic seizure? | Massive uncontrolled electrical activity |
| How do Dr.'s sometimes treat seizures? | split-brain operations |
| Psychologists who study the role of the brain in behavior are called _______. | Psychobiologists or physiological psychologists |
| What are CAT scans, PET scans, and MRI's used for? | to monitor the brain |
| A chmical communication system using hormones, by which messages are sent through the bloodstream to other parts of the body. | Endocrine system |
| Chemical substances that carry messages through the body in blood. | hormones |
| the center of teh endocrine system that secretes a large number of hormones, the master gland. | Pituitary gland |
| What afects do hormones have? | Growth, metabolism, released in stressful situations, cause physical differences in boys and girls. |
| This gland produces thyroxin and also controls metabolism | tyroid |
| what do adrenal glands do? | Secrete adrenaline |
| What affect does adrenaline have on the body? | Increase breathing, heart rate |
| This is the genetic transmission of characteristic from parents to their offspring. | heredity |
| Which phychologist said human behavior was based on nurture? | John Watson |
| Which psychologist studied successful familites and said success ws dtermined by nature. | Sir Francis Galton |
| These are the basic building blocks of heredity? | genes |
