Biological Psychology exam set study guide
1. amygdala: linked to emotions, specifically rage and fear
2. hippocampus: processes explicit memories for storage
3. hypothalamus: linked to emotion and reward, this structure
directs mainte- nance activities such as eating and body
temperature and helps govern the pituitary gland
4. pituitary gland: the master, it is the most influential of its kind
and regulates growth by controlling endocrine glands
5. action potential: a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that
travels down an axon.
speeds up
6. myelin sheath: a layer of fatty tissue that insulates the axon
and impulses.
7. axon: passes messages away from the cell body to other
neurons, muscles or glands
8. synapse: the junction between the axon tip of the sending
neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron
, 9. neurotransmitters: chemical messengers that cross the
synaptic gaps be- tween neurons, influencing whether a neuron
will generate a neural impulse
10. multiple sclerosis: the degeneration of the myelin sheath
could cause
11. endorphins: Morphine elevates mood and eases pain, and is
most similar to what neurotransmitter
12. central nervous system: brain and spinal cord
13. autonomic nervous system: system that controls self
regulation of internal organs and glands
14. somatic nervous system: system that controls voluntary
movement of skele- tal muscles
15. motor neurons: carry instructions from the central nervous
system out to the body's muscles and glands
1. amygdala: linked to emotions, specifically rage and fear
2. hippocampus: processes explicit memories for storage
3. hypothalamus: linked to emotion and reward, this structure
directs mainte- nance activities such as eating and body
temperature and helps govern the pituitary gland
4. pituitary gland: the master, it is the most influential of its kind
and regulates growth by controlling endocrine glands
5. action potential: a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that
travels down an axon.
speeds up
6. myelin sheath: a layer of fatty tissue that insulates the axon
and impulses.
7. axon: passes messages away from the cell body to other
neurons, muscles or glands
8. synapse: the junction between the axon tip of the sending
neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron
, 9. neurotransmitters: chemical messengers that cross the
synaptic gaps be- tween neurons, influencing whether a neuron
will generate a neural impulse
10. multiple sclerosis: the degeneration of the myelin sheath
could cause
11. endorphins: Morphine elevates mood and eases pain, and is
most similar to what neurotransmitter
12. central nervous system: brain and spinal cord
13. autonomic nervous system: system that controls self
regulation of internal organs and glands
14. somatic nervous system: system that controls voluntary
movement of skele- tal muscles
15. motor neurons: carry instructions from the central nervous
system out to the body's muscles and glands
