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Module 3,4,5
Brain, Nervous System, Senses
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/24/2008

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Sensory relay station in the brain
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Thalamus
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Alcohol interferes with what part of the brain?
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Cerebelum
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Involuntary control of such functions as heart rate, blood pressure, digestion are most of what it does...
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Symatic Nervous System
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Part of the ANS that prepares the body for action..
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Sympathetic
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Brian part that allows us to recognize words and music..
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Auditory association area
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Image of the working brain created by radio frequencies
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MRI
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Phineas Gage, rod through head! what procedure?
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Frontal Lobotomy
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Lobe where visual processing takes place
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opsipital lobe
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The barin part is wrinkled to allow more surface area for neurons
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cortext
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lobe involved with personality, emotions, and motor behaviors
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frontal
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lobe involed with perception and sensation
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perital
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a segment on a strand of dna that contains instructions for making proteins
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gene
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the brain and spinal cord
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central nervous system
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gland that regulates metabolism
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thyroid
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one of its functions is to make chemicals involved in sleep
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hans
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charles darwins book
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origin of species
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part of the ANS that calms things down and is involved in digestion
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parasympathetic division
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species change over time according to this theory by those individuals who are better adapter to their environments producing more children
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evolution - natural selection
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part of the limbic system that codes new memories
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hypocampus
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half of the brain
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hemisphere
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part of the limbic system involved in such things as eating, sex, and emotion
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hypothalamus
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what the "f" in fMRI stands for..
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functional
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Physiological arousal kept in balance
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homostasius
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