Basics of the Nervous System
The Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
What are the two main parts of the Nervous System?
The brain has 3 parts
What are the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain?
The genetic transmission of characteristics from parents to their offspring.
What is Heredity?
The hormone released by the pineal gland to regulate sleep.
What is melatonin?
The gap between neurons
What is a synapse?
The 4 lobes of the brain
What are the Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, and Occipital Lobe?
Genes are basic units of heredity. Normal DNA includes how many chromosomes?
What is 46?
Released by the thyroid gland, imbalances in this hormone cause hypo- or hyperthyroidism.
What is thyroxine?
Four functions the nervous system controls
What are emotions, movements, thinking, and behavior?
Background: The lobes in the brain are covered by the cerebrum, which is divided into two hemispheres.
Three skills/functions the left and right hemispheres individually specialize in.
What are:
Left hemisphere: speech, mathematical ability, and logic?
Right hemisphere: perception, patterns, and creativity?
The debate over the influence of heredity and environment on human behavior.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
Connected to the pituitary gland, this brain structure corrects hormone imbalances and regulates body temperature, hunger, and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
An oversupply of this neurotransmitter is linked to schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
This structure is cut during surgery to treat severe epilepsy.
What is the corpus callosum?
Twins who develop from two fertilized eggs and share the same similarities as single-born brothers and sisters.
What are fraternal twins?
Imbalances in production of insulin by this gland lead to diabetes or hypoglycemia.
What is the pancreas?
The difference between afferent neurons and efferent neurons.
What is relay messages from sense organs to the brain and send signals from the brain to glands and muscles?
4 imaging techniques used by researchers to study connections between the brain and behaviors, such as brain and speech
What are PET, CAT, MRI, and fMRI?
The reason and explanation for why researchers are particularly interested in twins when studying heredity.
What is: identical twins have the same genes, which can tell psychologists whether behaviors are a result of their environment or genetic make-up?
The three main reproductive hormones that are present in both males and females.
What are estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone?