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What area of the body does right motor cortex control?
What is LEFT
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What is biological psychology?
What is Branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior
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What does the Central Nervous System (CNS) control?
What is The brain and spinal cord
100
What does the Peripheral Nervous System control?
What is the body’s skeletal muscles
100
Why do researchers study the brains of animals?
What is The same principals govern neural functions in all species
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Molecules that binds to a receptor and inhibits a response is called a ________
What is Antagonist
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Receives neural messages and sends impulse to cell body
What is Dendrites
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Chemical messengers that cross the synapse between neurons
What is Neurotransmitters
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Basic building block of the nervous system
What is Neuron
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Extension of the neuron that passes messages through its branches to other neurons, muscles, or glands
What is Axon
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A period of inactivity after a neuron fires
What is Refractory Period
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Opiate- like neurotransmitters linked to pain control
What is Endorphins
300
Brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
What is Action Potiential
300
Re-absorption of neurotransmitters by the sending neuron
What is Reuptake
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The junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrites of the receiving neuron
What is Synapse
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What was the name of the man that had the sphere lodged into his frontal lobe?
What is Phineas Gage
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Fatty tissue layer encasing the axon
What is Myelin Sheath
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The Parietal lobe controls what?
What is Perception and sensory
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Neural reaction of either firing or not firing
What is All-or-none response
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Which cortex processes sensory information (pressure, touch, pain)?
What is Sensory Cortex
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You have 1 minute to draw a brain and label the Lobes ( Occipital, Frontal, Temporal, and Parietal) on both hemispheres.
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Level of physical stimulation required to trigger an impulse
What is Threshold
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Which lobe controls hearing and speaking?
What is Temporal
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Which area of the brain is responsible for speaking and coherent sentences and for understanding speech?
What is Wernicke’s area
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Molecule similar to a Neurotransmitter that triggers a response
What is Agonist