Heredity, Environment, and Nervous System (1.1 & 1.2)
Refers to genetic or predisposed characteristics that influence physical, behavioral, and mental traits and processes.
What is Nature / Heredity?
These neurons are responsible for transmitting impulses from the CNS to muscles for voluntary and involuntary movements.
What are motor neurons?
Severing the corpus callosum is often a treatment for what conditions?
What is epilepsy/seizures? (either or is accepatble)
The ____ rhythm in humans is about 24 hours and can be disrupted (Jet-Lag).
What is Circadian?
This law describes the just noticeable difference, also known as the minimum change within a stimulus to notice a difference. This law also describes that differences are relative; at 100g, you may only need 2g to notice, however, with 1000g, you will need 20g.
What is Webers' law.
Refers to the external factors that one experiences, such as family interactions or education
What is nurture?
What is the name for the group of drugs that include caffiene, cocaine, adderall, and meth?
What are stimulants?
This is known as the brain's ability to rewire, modify, or create new connections within itself.
What is neuroplasticity?
This common sleep disorder causes breathing to stop and restart momentarily.
What is sleep apnea?
This is the threshold when a stimulus can be detected at least 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
This nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This chronic autoimmune disease is a result of the immune system attacking the myelin sheath.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This group contains the brainstem, reticular formation, thalamus, and cerebellum
What is the old brain?
Name the 4 stages of sleep.
What are NREM 1, NREM 2, NREM 3, and REM?
___ are a photoreceptors that see in black, white, and gray. While ___ are photoreceptors that see in color.
What are Rods and Cones? (must be in that order)
This nervous system relays messages from the central nervous system to the rest of the body
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The ___ is responsible for instantaneous response, an example is represented below.
Sensory receptor→sensory neuron→integration center→motor neuron→effector muscle
This area of the brain is located and the left hemishpere and is primarily located in ___ area.
What is Broca's area?
Stages of sleep can be identified by their different _ _ _ patterns.
What is an EEG?
This bone in the ear receives vibrations first in the middle ear and transfers the vibration to the incus.
What is the malleus/hammer?
The first nervous system governs involuntary movements. This second nervous system governs voluntary movements. Name both of these nervous systems.
What are the autonomic nervous system and the somatic nervous system?
Name the 5 hormones in Psych
What are adrenaline, leptin, ghrelin, melatonin, and oxytocin?
These 2 types of scans are used to analyze and study the brain.
What is EEG and fMRI
Memory ____ and ____ are current theories on why humans need to sleep.
What is consolidation and restoration?
Gustation is the sense of taste. What are the 6 types of taste?
What are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, and olegustus?
Umami - Msg/Savory/ how long a taste lasts/ Beef Jerky vs an apple
Olegustus - Fatty taste, good like fries, bad like spoiling food (fats breaking down)