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| Regulates Biological Rythem |
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| involved in emotion and stress |
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| Stimulate the sympathetic nervous system |
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| relay information to CNS about pain |
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| Sympathetic Nervous System |
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| Mobilizes body for action part of he autonomic nervous system |
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| Parasympathetic Nervous System |
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Slows Action Down Part of the Autonomic Nervous System |
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| Regulates Biological Function |
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| Involved in Emotion and Stress |
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| Brains natural opiates Reduce pain promote pain |
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| Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Low levels linked with anxiety |
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| Learning, Memory and emotion alertness and wakefulness |
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| Muscle action, memory and attention Emotion and Cognition Some receptors stimulated by nicotine |
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| Involved in emotion and learning memory and pleasurable emotion high levels associated with schizophrenia low levels with Parkinson's |
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| Involved in sleep mood and depression ocd |
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| Absolute Refractory Period |
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| Minimum amount of time in which another action potential cannot begin |
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| Regulates autonomic functioning cant survive if destroyed |
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| Regulates Sleeping Walking and Dreaming |
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| Balance and coordination of movemnt analyzes sensory information may play a role in remembering simple skills; problem solving |
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| Modulates Muscle Reflexes, Pain Perception, Active in States of Arousal |
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| Helps function of movement and Arousal |
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| Relays motor impulses out of the brain directs incoming sensory messages to higher centers |
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| Master Gland; Governed by the Hypothalamus |
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| feeding fleeing fighting and fucking |
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| Loosely interconnected structures involved in emotions. No Clear Boundaries |
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| evaluates sensory responses linked to fear responses emotional events |
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| formation and storage of new memories |
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| Largest and most complex part of the brain devided into two hemispheres |
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| Contains the Visual Cortex |
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| Somatosensory cortex; receives information about pressure pain touch and temperature |
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| Involved in memory, perception and emotion, contains auditory cortex |
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| Involved in Language comprehension |
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| Contains the motor cortex responsibility and making plans initiative, creativity |
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| Area of the Frontal Lobe involved in speech production |
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| Involved in personality, decision making, social judgment, goal setting and sequencing. Damaging results in flattening of emotion and feeling. |
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| associated with touch and movement of the right side of the body vision on the right half of the visual field, production and comprehension of speech reading ability and mathematical ability |
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| associated with touch and movement of the left side of the body, vision on the left half of the visual field, Visual and spatial ability map reading art and music appreciation facial recognition and analysis of nonverbal sounds |
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| Traits determined by gene pairs |
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| Multifactorial Transmission |
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| environment factors interact with genetic factors to produce traits |
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| Absolute Vision Threshold |
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| candle flame @ 30 miles on a clear night |
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| Absolute Hearing Threshold |
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| Watch ticking at 20 feet in a quiet room |
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| 1 Tsp of sugar in 2 gallons of H2O |
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| 1 drop of perfume in 6(3) room apartment |
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| wing of bee dropped on cheek from 1 cm |
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| Our visual system is sensitive for (nanometers) |
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| what is commonly meant by color |
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Three types of color receptors in the retina individual cones are more receptive to red blue or green Couldn't explain afterimages |
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| each type of cone responds to two different wavelengths red/green; blue/yellow; black/white |
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| takes parts of the trichromatic and opponent theories |
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| number of sound waves, cycles per second. Most common sounds are in lower frequencies |
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| Number of times particles oscillate per second |
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| Height Depth of the wave higher corresponds with a louder sound |
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| Wave purity or mixture of sound |
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| Holds the auditory receptors |
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| sweet sour salty and bitter |
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| three basic sensations pressure temperature and pain |
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| body's feedback on muscle and joint position gives sense of coordinated movement |
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| in the inner ear helps with balance |
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| Pleasure area of the brain |
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