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| INPUT, from sensory organs to the brain and spinal cord |
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| OUTPUT, from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands |
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| carry info between other neurons only found in brain and spinal cord |
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| nerves to and from skeletal system, control muscle movements, somatosensory imputs, both voluntary & reflex movements |
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| nerves to and from internal organs, control involuntary funtions (heart beat), can be influenced by thought & emotion, sympathetic & parasympathetic |
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| major communication system, slower than nervous |
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| neurons that carry outgoing info from CNS to muscles/glands |
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| controls movement..learning, attention, when not enough-causes tremors |
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| controls voluntaru movements |
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| registers & processes boyd sensations |
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| directs maintenance activities (eating, drinking) helps govern endocrine system, linked to emotion |
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| involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking |
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| major pathway btwn hemispheres, severed for treatment of epilepsy, keeps it on 1 side |
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experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, touching, mouthing)
-object permanence, stranger anxiety |
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representing things with words and images but lacking logical reasoning
-pretend play, egocentrism, language development |
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thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies & performing arithmetical operations
-conservation, mathematical transformations |
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abstract reasoning
-abstract logic, potential for moral reasoning |
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| concept or framework that organizes & interprets info; "dog" - furry, 4 legs, barks |
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| fitting new info into existing knowledge structures called schemas |
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| modifying existing knowledge structures; changing schemas |
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| the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |
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| principle that properties remain the same despite changes in the form of objects |
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| preoperational child's ability to take another's point of view |
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