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| Hormone produced by Thyroid |
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| Hormone produced by Thyroid that regulates body metabolism |
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| Hormone produced by Parathyroid |
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| Hormone produced by Parathyroid that affects excitability |
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| Hormone produced by Pineal Gland |
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| Hormone produced by Pineal Gland that regulates sleep wake cycle, in other words, it makes you sleep |
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| Hormones produced by Pancreas |
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| Hormones produced by Pancreas that regulates digestion of food and metabolism of sugar |
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| Diabetes is a condition where the patient doesn't produce enough of what hormone? |
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| Purpose of the Pituitary Gland |
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| The master gland that governs if you produce hormones or stop producing hormones |
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| The Pituitary Gland is a direct connection to what part of the brain? |
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| Hormone produced by the Adrenal Gland |
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| Hormone produced by the adrenal Gland that affects body's response to stress, involves the fight or flight |
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| What are the two sections of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)? |
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| What are the two types of reactions in the Autonomic section of the PNS? |
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| Sympathetic and Parasympathetic |
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| What does the Sympathetic part of your Autonomic PNS do? |
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| It is the arousing part of the brain that prepares the body for an emergency |
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| What does the Parasympathetic part of your Autonomic PNS do? |
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| The calming part of the brain that relaxes your after an emergency has ended and brings your body back to homeostasis |
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| Describe what is included in the Somatic part of the PNS |
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Composed of all of your sensory neurons
and encompasses everything we can see hear smell or feel.It is involved in voluntary actions; eating, drinking, reading, and writing |
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| Describe what the Autonomic part of the PNS controls |
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| It controls self regulated action of internal organs, for example heart rate, breathing, and temperature regulation) |
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| What are the two pathways of the spinal cord? |
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| Descending motor (outgoing information) and Ascending sensory (incoming information) |
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What order do the following terms go in when your finger touches a flame and ignites the reflex circuit?
Brain, Interneuron, Motor Neuron, Sensory Neuron |
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| Sensory Nueron -> Interneuron -> Motor Neuron -> Brain |
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| What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex? |
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| Occipital lobe, Temporal lobe, Parietal lobe, and Frontal lobe |
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| A radical behaviorist, invented the theory of reinforcement, created operant conditioning |
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| Rewarded behavior will continue, punished behavior will stop |
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| You have to do something to get something |
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| You can condition someone by making them associate two things with each other |
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| Scientists who think we are active in learning |
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| Scientists that beleive we are passive in learning |
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| The horse that could count, an example of seeing what we want to see or objective science |
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| more people die at night, people are effected by the cyclical actions of the day |
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| Cross Cultural Psychology |
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| This method allows psychologists to examine how knowledge about people and their behaviors vary from culture to culture |
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| Western society including the United States are examples of this culture |
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| Asian culture is an example of this culture, the community is the most important thing |
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| In a cell membrane there are 3 things that let in atoms and send them out, they are: |
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| Part of cell membrane that opens and closes depending on if the cell is at resting potential or action potential |
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| Part of cell membrane that are always open whether the cell is at resting potential or action potential |
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| Part of cell membrane that pumps out 3 Na for every 2 K in when at rest, but pumps in 3 Na for every 2 K out when the cell is in action |
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| Depolarization is at zero (this isn't a question, just a reminder) |
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| Polarization is positive (this isn't a question, just a reminder) |
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| Another term for Absolute Refractory |
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| Where does learning occur? |
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| What does the neurotransmitter Acetycholine control? |
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| Triggers muscle contraction, plays critical role in memory, attention and motivation, a deficiency in this neurotransmitter is called Alzheimers |
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| What does the neurotransmitter Dopamine control? |
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| The NT involved with voluntary movement, learning, memory and emotion, Primary NT involved in addiction, Addictive behaviors and substances stimulate dopamine, Parkinson’s disease (the tremor) |
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| What does the neurotransmitter Serotonin control? |
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| The NT primarily involved in mood and depression, also important in regulation of sleep and appetite |
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| What does the neurotransmitter Endorphin control? |
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| A NT released in response to pain and vigorous exercise, a pain reliever, the cause of runner's high |
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| Losing the ability to recognize faces, including there own |
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