Keeping it Balanced
The process your body uses to keep internal conditions stable.
What is Homeostasis
Specialized cells that detect stimuli in animals.
What are sensory receptors?
A behavior that an animal is born with.
What is an innate behavior?
Learning by pairing one stimulus with another, like Pavlov’s dog.
What is classical conditioning?
Remembering how to perform skills like walking or eating.
What is procedural memory?
Homeostasis helps your body do this for future responses to similar situations.
What is regulate?
The environmental message that sensory receptors detect.
What is a stimulus?
A behavior that is developed through experience or environment.
What is a learned behavior?
Learning through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
Remembering locations and how to navigate the environment.
What is spatial memory?
Both humans and animals use these types of signal communication to maintain balance.
What are internal and external signals
Sensory receptors send information to the brain using these.
What are neurons?
The baby grasping reflex is an example of this type of innate behavior.
What is a reflex?
When an animal stops responding to a repeated stimulus.
What is habituation?
Linking different events or stimuli together.
What is associative memory?
Name one way you and your pet might perform homeostasis similarly.
Regulating Body Temp, or heart rate
These neurons carry signals from sensory organs to the central nervous system.
What are sensory (afferent) neurons?
A bird building a nest the same way every time is this kind of innate behavior.
What is a fixed action pattern?
Learning by watching and copying others.
What is observational learning?
The short-term memory used for immediate decision-making.
What is working memory?
Describe how homeostasis helps survival.
it allows the body to respond and adapt to changes in the environment?
What are the three main types of neurons?
What are sensory, motor, and interneurons?
Learning to drive or use utensils are examples of this behavior type.
What is a learned behavior?
Solving a problem using understanding and reasoning.
What is insight learning?
Remembering what, where, and when of a past experience—seen in scrub jays.
What is episodic-like memory?