Heredity and Genes
This is the most basic question psychologists are always trying to answer: what influences who we are?
What is Nature vs Nurture?
These are the two pieces that the central nervous system is made of.
What are the Brain and Spinal Cord?
This is the largest of all parts of the neuron, up to 3 feet in some people!
What is the Axon?
These are the chemicals neurons pass to each other to communicate
What are Neurotransmitters?
This is the happy chemical, involved in motivation and pleasure centers.
What is dopamine?
This is the collection of all the genes that make up a whole human.
What is the Genome?
When the body senses stress, this activates the fight-or-flight response all over the body.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This is the part of the neuron that takes in chemical signals from other neurons/muscles/glands.
What are dendrites?
What is Action Potential?
It's known as the Love Hormone for its role in bonding and companionate love
What is Oxytocin?
This field of psychology studies the way humans are similar and how their biology came to be.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
These are the system of nerves that move your muscles and glands
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
This is where all the normal cell business happens, but in latin.
What is the Soma?
It's the type of signal sent down the dendrites, cell body, and through the axon.
What is electrical?
It's used in muscles to cause contractions and also learning and memory
What is Acetylcholine (ACh)?
To determine the effects of the environment, psychologists often study these groups in a family, though often separated for many years.
What are Identical Twins?
This is the part of the CNS that makes decisions about reflexes
What is the Spinal Cord?
This protects you from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and possibly Alzheimers
What is the Myelin Sheath?
This is the period when the neuron is returning its charge to normal before it can fire again
What is the Refractory Period?
This is used by the parasympathetic system to bring you back to homeostasis
What is Norepinephrine?
What is Dizygotic twins?
These are the nerves that send messages to our muscles to activate
What are Motor Neurons?
This is where the neurochemical vesicles are located.
What are the Terminal Buds/Buttons?
Neurons don't really touch, instead they make this
What is Substance P?