Nervous System
The central nervous system consists of these two items
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
Enables great transmission speeds as neural impulses hop from one node to the next, speeding up reaction time
What do Myelin Sheaths do?
These lessen neural activity and slows bodily functions
What do depressants do?
The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment
What is natural selection?
This is the half of the peripheral nervous system which deals with voluntary physical movement.
What is the somatic nervous system?
They are bushy branches that recieve information from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up bodily functions
What do stimulants do?
The theoretical approach using evolutionary principles to explain behavior, thoughts, and emotions
What is evolutionary psychology?
A person experiencing rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils and perspiration
What are the effects of the Sympathetic Nervous System?
The area of connection between two neurons or the tiny space between two neurons.
What is the synapse?
Drugs or substances that affect how the brain works and causes changes in mood, awareness, thoughts, and behaviors
What are psychoactive drugs?
How innate and environment factors influence personality and development?
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
Slows digestion, contract bladder, slows heart rate
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
They are the other cells in the nervous system that clean up after neurons
What are glial cells?
Sedative hypnotics drugs that act as central nervous system depressants
What are barbiturates?
How the environment influences on gene expression occur without DNA change
What is epigenetics?
Neurons that carry incoming information from the body's tissue and sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord
What are sensory (afferent) neurons?
The body' slow chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream
What is the endocrine system?
The most powerful hallucinogen
What is LSD?
An english naturalist who is known for his contribution to evolutionary biology
Who was Charles Darwin?