term, key person, vocab | answer |
desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations | |
a condition that destroys a person's ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care fo rhim or herself | |
study of death and dying | |
long thin cells on nerve tissue along which messages travel to and from the brain | |
the gap that exists between individual nerve cells | |
includes the brain and spinal cord | |
nerves branching beyond the spinal cord into the body | |
chemicals released by neurons | |
chemical involved in learning, emotional arousal and movement and linked to schizophrenia | |
chemical involved in movement and memory | |
type of neurons that relay messages form teh sense organs to the brain | |
type of neurons that send signals from the brain to the glands and muscles | |
part of teh pns that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles | |
located behind the spinal cord and helps control posture, balance, voluntary movements | |
brain area that is involved in alertness and the sleep/wake cycle | |
brain part that acts like a relay station for all incoming and outgoing information | |
brain structure involded in hunger, thirst, and sexual behavior | |
includes the 2 hemispheres and 4 lobes | |
system in our brain that regulates our emotions adn motivations | |
brain structure that is important in the formatoin of memories | |
the cerebral hemispheres are connected by this band of fibers | |
different regions into which the cerebral cortex is divided | |
planning, thinking and working memory lobe of the brain | |
hearing, advanced visual processing lobe | |
primary visual lobe of the brain | |
type of machine used to record electrical activity of the brain | |
slower chemical communication system of the body | |
center of control for the endocrine system | |
genetic transmission of characteristics form parents to offspring | |
the basic building blocks of heredity | |
state of awareness that includes a person's feelings, sensations, ideas and perceptions | |
state of sleep when dreams occur | |
sleep disorder in which a person fails to get enought sleep | |
a sleep disorder in which a person has trouble breathing whild asleep | |
the rhythm of activity and inactivity lasting approximately 24-25 hours | |
sleep disruptions that occur during stage 4 of sleep, involving screaming, panic or confusion | |
condition characterized by suddenly falling asleep or feeling very sleepy during the day | |
story line of a dream according to freud | |
underlying meaning of a dream | |
perceptions that have no direct external cause | |
weakest amount of a simulus that a person can detect 50% | |
organizatoin of sensory info into meaningful experiences | |
what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor | |
principle that for any change in a stimulus to be detected, a constant proportion of that stimulus must be added or subtracted | |
opening in the iris that regulates the amount of light entering | |
innermost coating of the back of the eye that contains the light sensitive receptor cells | |
nerve that carries impulses from the retina to teh brain | |
nerve that caries smell impulses from the nose to the brain | |
3 semicircular canals that provide the sense of balance, located in the inner ear and connected to teh brain by a nerve | |
sense of movement and body position | |
the experience that comes from organizing bits and pieces of info into meaningful wholes | |
learning conditoin in which associations are made between a neutral stimuls and an unconditioned stimulus | |
won a nobel prize for his work on classical conditioning | |
responding similarly to a range of similar stimuli | |