The Nervous System
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Studying the brain
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Heredity/Environment
100
the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
100
chemicals released by neurons, which determine the rate at which other neurons fire
What are neurotransmitters?
100
part of the brain located at the rear base of the skull involved in the basic processes of life
What is the hindbrain?
100
the different regions into which the cerebral cortex is divided
What are lobes?
100
the genetic transmission of characteristics from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
200
nerves that run up and down the length of the back and transmit most messages between the body and brain
What is the spinal cord?
200

part of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles.

What is the somatic nervous system?

200
a small part of the brain above the pons that integrates sensory information and relays it upward
What is the midbrain?
200
brain hermisphere that deals with our verbal, mathematical, and analytic skills
What is your left brain?
200
basic building blocks of heredity
What are genes?
300
nerves branching out from the spinal cord
What is the peripheral nervous system?
300
part of the peripheral nervous system that controls internal biological functions
What is the autonomic nervous system?
300
a part of the brain that covers the brain's central core
What is the forebrain?
300
a machine used to record the electrical activity of large portions of the brain
What is an electroencephalograph (EEG)?
300
twins who come from a single fertilized egg
What are identical twins?
400
long, thin cells of nerve tissue aling which messages travel to and from the brain
What are neurons?
400

an example of a voluntary activity

What is: raising your hand, skipping, chewing gum?  (any activity that you have to consciously think about doing).

400
part of the forebrain that integrates all sensory information, except smell
What is the thalamus?
400
the master gland that controls the endocrine system and secretes a large number of hormones
What is the pituitary gland?
400
twins who came from two seperate eggs and share no more genetic makeup than any other siblings
What are fraternal twins?
500
the gap that exists between individual nerve cells
What is a synapse?
500

an example of an involuntary activity

What is breathing, heart beat, blinking, swallowing, digestion?  (any activity that you don't think about that is essential to living).

500
regulates our emotions and motivations
What is the limbic system?
500
a chemical communication system, using hormones, by which messages are sent through the bloodstream
What is the endocrine system?
500
nature vs. nurture
What is a theory of which is more influencial on a person's behavior--genetics or environment
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