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Human Nervous System
Branches
-Brain: consciousness, hemispheres
Central Nervous System -Spinal Cord: passes messages from the brain, reflex
actions, connects to PNS
Transmits Messages via neurons
Peripheral Nervous
-Autonomic: breathing heart rate stress
System
-Somatic: muscle and sensory neurons
the body's "slow" chemical communication system; a
set of glands that secrete hormones into the
bloodstream
Endocrine System Examples
-Thyroid, Thyroxine, heart rate
-Pituitary gland, regulates other glands
-adrenal, adrenaline, arousal
-Hypothalamus in brain activates pituitary gland
-ANS Sympathetic state
-Adrenaline Released for fight or flight
Adrenaline Steps
Immediate and Automatic
-Once threat has passed, parasympathetic nervous
system returns body to original state
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cell body
dendrites
Structure of a neuron axon (myelin sheath nodes of
ranvier)
synapse
Neuron Types
Action Potential, sum of the excitory and inhibitory
Electrical Tranmission
hormones
Synapse
before Broca and Wernicke, scientists supported the
holistic theory of the brain that all parts were
involved in the processing of though and action.
Localisation vs holistic however, later scientists argued that different parts
theory of the brain perform different tasks and are involved
with different parts of the body. if the brain area is
damaged, the associated function will also become
affected
Right side is more Creative (deals with art, music,
holistic thought, and intuition). Left side is more
Hemispheres of the brain
Analytical (deals with logic, language, science, and
math).
Brain Localisation
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Motor- movement
Visual- sight
Somatosensory- sensory
Brain Part Functions
Auditory- analysis of sound based info
Broca's- Speech production
Wernicke's- language understanding
+EVIDENCE FROM NEUROSURGERY
>OCD area of brain can be treated, showing specific
area
+BRAIN SCAN EVIDENCE
>activity during tasks
Localisation of brain
COUNTER
function Evaluation
>rats having cortexes severed could still do maze
(holistic)
-LANGUAGE QUESTIONED
>not just broca and wernicke, fmri showed greater
spread
Together, the two hemispheres control much of your
behaviour. The left is relatively more specialized for
Left and Right
speech and language; the right, for appreciation of
Hemispheres
3D space and spatial relationships. Right hem
controls RVF and vice versa
Sperry studied individuals who had undergone a
commissurotomy (corpus callosum cut to separate
the two hemispheres)
Images in both visual fields
When image shown to RVF (LH) they could descibe
Split brain research -
it but not on the opposite side, as the RH could not
Sperry
relay to language centres in the LH
They could however select the object from sight
LVF (RH) had emotional response to pinups but
couldnt describe
Supports Lateralisation
+RESEARCH SUPPORT
>PET scans in tasks
Lateralisation Evaluation
-ONE BRAIN
>No dominant side for personality
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AQA Psychology - Paper 2 complete questions
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SOLUTIONS | A+ GRADED
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Terms in this set (97)
Human Nervous System
Branches
-Brain: consciousness, hemispheres
Central Nervous System -Spinal Cord: passes messages from the brain, reflex
actions, connects to PNS
Transmits Messages via neurons
Peripheral Nervous
-Autonomic: breathing heart rate stress
System
-Somatic: muscle and sensory neurons
the body's "slow" chemical communication system; a
set of glands that secrete hormones into the
bloodstream
Endocrine System Examples
-Thyroid, Thyroxine, heart rate
-Pituitary gland, regulates other glands
-adrenal, adrenaline, arousal
-Hypothalamus in brain activates pituitary gland
-ANS Sympathetic state
-Adrenaline Released for fight or flight
Adrenaline Steps
Immediate and Automatic
-Once threat has passed, parasympathetic nervous
system returns body to original state
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cell body
dendrites
Structure of a neuron axon (myelin sheath nodes of
ranvier)
synapse
Neuron Types
Action Potential, sum of the excitory and inhibitory
Electrical Tranmission
hormones
Synapse
before Broca and Wernicke, scientists supported the
holistic theory of the brain that all parts were
involved in the processing of though and action.
Localisation vs holistic however, later scientists argued that different parts
theory of the brain perform different tasks and are involved
with different parts of the body. if the brain area is
damaged, the associated function will also become
affected
Right side is more Creative (deals with art, music,
holistic thought, and intuition). Left side is more
Hemispheres of the brain
Analytical (deals with logic, language, science, and
math).
Brain Localisation
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Motor- movement
Visual- sight
Somatosensory- sensory
Brain Part Functions
Auditory- analysis of sound based info
Broca's- Speech production
Wernicke's- language understanding
+EVIDENCE FROM NEUROSURGERY
>OCD area of brain can be treated, showing specific
area
+BRAIN SCAN EVIDENCE
>activity during tasks
Localisation of brain
COUNTER
function Evaluation
>rats having cortexes severed could still do maze
(holistic)
-LANGUAGE QUESTIONED
>not just broca and wernicke, fmri showed greater
spread
Together, the two hemispheres control much of your
behaviour. The left is relatively more specialized for
Left and Right
speech and language; the right, for appreciation of
Hemispheres
3D space and spatial relationships. Right hem
controls RVF and vice versa
Sperry studied individuals who had undergone a
commissurotomy (corpus callosum cut to separate
the two hemispheres)
Images in both visual fields
When image shown to RVF (LH) they could descibe
Split brain research -
it but not on the opposite side, as the RH could not
Sperry
relay to language centres in the LH
They could however select the object from sight
LVF (RH) had emotional response to pinups but
couldnt describe
Supports Lateralisation
+RESEARCH SUPPORT
>PET scans in tasks
Lateralisation Evaluation
-ONE BRAIN
>No dominant side for personality
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