Nervous
System
System
What is the bodies speedy, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems.
Nervous System
Which neuron carries incoming information from the body’s tissues and sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord.
Sensory Neurons
Which part of the neuron receives messages from other cells
Dendrites
What neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
Acetylcholine (Ach)
What numerical data that allow one to generalize- to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population.
Inferential Statistics
What is the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body’s skeletal muscles. Also called the skeletal nervous system.
Somatic Nervous System
What neuron carries outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.
Motor Neurons
Which part of the neuron passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands?
Axon
Which neurotransmitter influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion?
Dopamine
What is a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance,
Statistical Significance
What is the division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy.
Parasympathetic Nervous System
What has a molecule that inhibits or blocks a neurotransmitter’s action.
Antagonist
Which part of the neuron is the cell's life support center?
Cell body
Which neurotransmitter affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal?
Serotonin
What is numerical data used to measure and describe characteristics of groups. Includes measures of central tendency and measure of variation.
Descriptive Statistics
What is the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart). Its sympathetic division arouses; its parasympathetic division calms.
Autonomic Nervous System
We have billions and billions of these
Interneurons
Which part of the neuron covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses?
Myelin Sheath
Which neurotransmitter helps us control alertness and arousal?
Norepinephrine
What is a bar graph depicting a frequency distribution.
Histogram
What is is responsible for gathering information and for transmitting CNS decisions to other body parts.
Peripheral Nervous System
What has molecules that increase a neurotransmitter’s action.
Agonist
Which part of the neuron forms junctions with other cells?
Terminal branches of axon
Which neurotransmitter is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter?
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
What does it mean if a representation of scores that lack symmetry around their average value.
Skewed