neurotransmitters
Affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal
What is Serotonin?
Part of peripheral nervous system that causes body conserving energy
What is the automatic nervous system?
Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness?
Every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us
What is environment?
"Fight or flight" response
Amygdala
Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
What is Dopamine?
Which brain lobe does not exist?
A) Frontal Lobe
B) Occipital Lobe
C) Systematic Lobe
D) Parietal Lobe
C) Systematic Lobe
The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition
What is cognitive neuroscience?
What type of twins share a prenatal environment?
A) identical
B) fraternal
B) fraternal
Influences sleeping and dreaming
What is Pons?
What are Endorphins?
The formation of new neurons
What is neurogenesis?
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
What is duel processing?
What is interaction?
Fine motor control, balance, and coordination
What is the Cerebellum?
Helps control alertness and arousal
What is Norepinephrine?
Brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience
What is plasticity?
Genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
The proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we attribute to genes
What is heritability?
Main role is to avoid negative experiences
What is the Cingulate Cortex?
Enables muscle action, learning, and memory
What is Acetylcholine?
intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering the cerebral hemispheres; body's ultimate control and information-processing center
What is the cerebral cortex?
What is behavior genetics?
The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occurs w/out DNA change
What is epigenetics?
Relays information from the sensory receptors to the proper parts of the brain to be processed
"Quarterback of senses"
What is the Thalamus?