Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Neural wires spread throughout the body, created by the bundling of axons
What are nerves?
X-rays taken from different angles to show brain strcuture.
What are CT Scans?
Responsible for non-verbal memory and learning.
What is the cerebellum?
The separating of the corpus callosum causing differences in neurological processes.
What is split-brain?
The debate between whether behaviors are genitically predisposed or aquired over time.
What is the Nature-Nurture debate?
The Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System
What are the two systems that make up the Nervous system?
What is a PET Scan?
Charlotte is being aggresive towards her classmates. Her aggression is the result of ____.
What is the amygdala being stimulated?
Being aware of yourself and your surroundings.
What is consciousness?
Free Space!
Free Space!
The type of nervous system where the stomach's digestion is constrained.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Pons and the medulla are part of____
What is a brainstem?
A genetically predisposed condition where you NEED to fill pleasure needs.
What is the reward deficiency syndrome?
The principle where there is a conscious and subconscious track to process information.
What is dual processing?
This genitic disorder includes the addition of one extra chromosome that results in behaviors such as: moving a lot, fixation, and difficulty in social interaction.
What is Autism?
Finish the sequence: brain, ____, other glands, hormones, body and brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
The brain structure directs neural responces to the medulla oblongada and the cerebellum.
What is the thalamus?
The brain structure related to the formation of new memories and learning.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the brain helps us make inferences.
What is right brain?
The most predominant determiner of personality in a person.
What are genetics?
Implements the "fight or flight" reaction. Part of the endocrine system.
What are adrenal glands?
Primary enabler for arousal.
What is the Reticular Formation?
The three structures of the limbic system.
What are the amygdala, hypothalamus, and hippocampus?
The fact that the different sides of the brain have different functions.
What is lateralization?
The studies that were most benificial to the Nature-Nurture debate.
What are the twins studies?