Unit 3 VCE Psychology Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Unit 3 VCE Psychology Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Central Nervous System - Correct Answer ️️ -(CNS) brain and spinal cord. Peripheral Nervous system - Correct Answer ️️ -Body Nerves that connect to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Connects the central nervous system to the body's organs and limbs. Autonomic Nervous System - Correct Answer ️️ -Controls involuntary bodily functions (not consciously controlled), such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestive processes Somatic Nervous System - Correct Answer ️️ -Controls voluntary bodily functions (consciously controlled), such as controlling skeletal muscles Stimulus - Correct Answer ️️ -Things that initiate nerve impulses (ex. hot room) Motor Functions - Correct Answer ️️ -Complex muscle-and-nerve acts that produce movement (walking, writing, typing running etc.) "Electrochemical" - Correct Answer ️️ -A nerve impulse is partially electric (change in polarity/charge) and partially chemical (neurotransmitters) Synapse - Correct Answer ️️ -Where the nerve impulse is sent (connection of 2 neurons) . Action Potential changes the charge of the synapse (causes electricity) and Neurotransmitters are sent. Myelin Sheath - Correct Answer ️️ -Offers protection to the neuron, Speeds up nerve impulses. Axon - Correct Answer ️️ -The long threadlike part of a nerve cell that carry the nerve impulse Dendrites - Correct Answer ️️ -Branch like extensions on a neuron that GET signals and connect to the synapse Neurotransmitters - Correct Answer ️️ -Chemicals that transmit signals across a synapse from one neuron to another 'target' neuron Sensory Neuron - Correct Answer ️️ -Nerve cells that transmit sensory information (sight, smell, sound etc.) Interneuron - Correct Answer ️️ -Nerve cells that connect motor ne