The Brain
This area controls heartbeat & breathing, located at base of brainstem
What is the medulla?
The part of the nervous system comprised of brain and spinal cord, also called 'the body's decision maker'
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
Sperm carries these two possible chromosomes
X or Y
What are the stages of sleep?
What are N1, N2, N3, & REM?
A testable prediction often based on a theory
What is hypothesis?
This system is made up of the amygdala, hypothalamus, and hippocampus
What is the limbic system?
This area receives signals from PNS & relays
these to brain, carries signals from brain to muscles, & can direct simple behaviors without
instructions from brain
What is the spinal cord?
The reflex that occurs when anything touches an infant's lips
What is the sucking reflex?
Sleep disorder where someone can fall asleep at any given moment
What is narcolepsy?
One person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles, findings not generalized to a greater population though
What is a case study?
This controls higher order processes, such
as thinking, speaking & perceiving, it’s what makes us “distinctively human”
What is the cerebral cortex?
Nerve cells
What are neurons?
lifelong cognitive & physical abnormalities
caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
The underlying meaning of a dream
What is latent content?
Participants that DO NOT receive treatment, serve as a comparison for evaluating the effect of treatment
What is a control group?
This area receives info from senses (except
smell) & sends it to sensory areas
in cortex dealing with seeing,
hearing, tasting & touching
What is the thalamus?
The gap between axon & dendrite
What is the synapse?
Agents, such as chemicals & viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus & cause harm
What are teratogens?
Our body's biological clock running on a 24-hour cycle
What is circadian rhythm?
The extent to which two factors are associated with each other & how well one factor predicts the other, cannot determine cause and effect though
What is a correlation?
This lobe of the brain receives sensory input for touch
& body position
What is the parietal lobe?
This neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, & memory
What is ACh (acetylcholine)?
A developing human organism from
2 weeks to 2nd month
What is an embryo?
A periodic, natural loss of
consciousness
What is sleep?
Can determine cause and affect, employs the use of both independent and dependent variables
What is experimentation?