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término definición
NEURON
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is a nerve cell.
PSYCHOLOGY
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study of the brain or mind and how it influences the ways in which people act
ENVIRONMENT
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is a physical setting.
PHYSICAL STATES
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status of the body’s systems in a particular circumstance.
FUNCTIONS
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is the job or purpose on something.
BEHAVIOR
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observable action or reaction to something.
PROCESS
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set of events that take place in a certain order and have a specific result or process something is to take it and understand it
AFFECT
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to affect something is to change it.
ASSESS
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to asses something is to evaluate and define it.
CNS (CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM)
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made of brain and the spinal cord, and sends and receives mesages to and from the rest of the body to direct behavior.
MENTAL
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something related to the brain.
TREAT
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to treat a medical condition is to try to correct it or make it less severe.
PNS (PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM)
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part of the nervous system that is outside of the brain and spinal cord.
SENSORY NERVE
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is a nerve that sends information from the body to the brain or spinal cord.
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
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the part of the peripheral nervous system that is responsible for the unconscious control of the body’s internal systems, such as organs and glands.
MOTOR NERVE
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is a nerve that sends messages from the brain or spinal cord to the body’s muscles and controls movements.
SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
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is the part of the peripheral nervous system that is responsible for the body’s controllable movements.
REFLEX
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is an uncontrolled and unlearned response to stimulus.
SENSORY INFORMATION
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is a data that comes from the sense organs like eyes or ears.
INVOLUNTARY
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action that person cannot control or influence it.
VOLUNTARY
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if an action is voluntary, a person can control or influence it.
SPINAL CORD
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is a long, thick group of nerves that extends from the brain down the backbone.
WHITE MATTER
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is a part of the central nervous system that does not contain the bodies of nerve cells.
SYMPATETHIC DIVISION
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of the autonomic nervous system controls the body’s responses to threatening, dangerous or otherwise arousing situations.
PARASYMPATETHIC DIVISION
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part of the autonomic nervous system controls the body when it is at rest.
GRAY MATTER
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is a part of the central nervous system that contains the bodies of nerve cells.
BRAIN
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is the organ of the body that is responsible for thinking and controlling the body.
AUDITORY CORTEX
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region of the cerebrum located in the temporal lobe and is responsible for interpreting sounds.
CEREBRUM
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is the largest part of the human brain.
TEMPORAL LOBE
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is the bottom middle part of the cerebrum, and is responsible for languagelearning, speech, and forming new memories.
VISUAL CORTEX
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is a region of the cerebrum located in a occipital lobe, and is responsible for interpreting information from the eyes.
FRONTAL LOBE
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is the front part of the cerebrum, and is responsible for high level thinking, such as complex problem solving and planning.
INSULAR LOBE
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is a part of the cerebrum inside of the groove that separates the frontal lobes from the parietal and temporal lobes, and is responsible for consciousness, motor control, and emotion.
PARIETAL LOBE
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is the top middle part of the cerebrum, and is responsible for processing different kinds of sensory information.
OCCIPITAL LOBE
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is the rear part of the cerebrum and is responsible for processug visual information from the eyes.
HEMISPHERE
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is one half of something that is round.
SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX
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is a region of the cerebrum located in the parietal lobe, and is responsible for interpreting information about the bod’s position, temperature and pain.
INTEGRATE
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to integrate something is to make it a part of a larger whole.
MOTOR CORTEX
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is a region of the cerebrum on the boundary of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, and is responsible for planningand executing movement.
CORPUS CALLOSUM
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is a bundle of fibers that connects the left hemisphere of the cerebrum to the right hemisphere of the cerebrum.
BRAIN STEM
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a part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord and includes: the medulla, pons and midbrain.
PITUITARY GLAND
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is a gland that is located below the brain, which secretes hormones that control growth, conversion of nutrients, and other bodily functions.
MEDULLA
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is the lower of the brainstem, which controls heart rate, blood pressure and breathing.
CEREBELLUM
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is a part of the brain located at the rear of the bottom of the brain, which mostly controls movement.
MIDBRAIN
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is a part of the brain that is located near the center, which helps control the functions of vision, hearing, and is responsible for planning and executing movement.
HYPOTHALAMUS
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is a part of the brain that is located below the thalamus and above the brain stem, which controls body temperature, fatigue, hunger and thirst.
LIMBIC SYSTEM
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is a collection of nerves in the brain, which contains the amygdalae and controls basic emotions.
THALAMUS
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is a part of the brain that is located between the cerebral cortex and midbrain, which helps control consciousness, sleep and alertness.
PONS
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is a part of the brainstem that transmits signals from the cerebrum to the medulla, then from the medulla to the thalamus.
AMYGDALAE
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are two groups of nuclei in the brain’s limbic system, which help control emotions and the sense of smell.
ACETYLCHOLINE
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neuromodulator that allows the spinal cord to control muscles, among other functions.
NEUROMODULATOR
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is a network of neurotransmitters that transmit information to multiple systems in the body at once.
GLAND
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is an organ that produces a particular chemical – mostly hormones.
INSULIN
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is a hormone that regulates the amount of sugar in blood.
NEUROTRANSMITTER
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is a chemical that transmits a signal from one neuron to another.
ENDORPHIN
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is a hormone that acts as a neurotransmiter affecting sensations of pleasure and pain.
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
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is a system of gland that release hormones into the body to regulate it.
HORMONE
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is a substance that causes a body’s cells to perform a particular action.
REGULATE
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to regulate a process is to control its amount or frequency.
NOREPINEPHRINE
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is a hormone that the brain produces under stress, which acts as a neurotransmitter and controls functions such as heart rate and blood pressure.
SENSORY DEPRIVATION
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is the lack of normal amounts of sensory perception.
ABSOLUTE TRESHOLD
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smallest amount of stimulation that an observer can detect
SENSE
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is an ability by which the body perceives something around it.
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
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is the process of focusing on a small part of the environment while blocking out the rest of the environment.
DIFFERENCE TRESHOLD
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smallest difference in stimulation that an observer can detect while comparing two stimuli.
SENSATION
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is the detection or the experience of something in the surrounding environment resulting from stimulation of sensory organ.
PERCEPTION
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is the process that the brain uses to intrepret and organize information from the senses.
PSYCHOPHYSICS
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is a branch of psychology that studies the relationship between sensory experiences and the physical properties of stimuli.
SENSORY INFORMATION
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is a data that comes from the sense organs like eyes or ears.
TRANSDUCTION
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is a process performed by sensory organs in which one type of Energy becomes another.
SENSORY ADAPTATION
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is the reduction in response to a sensory perception that occurs when a stimulus is repetitive or unchanging.
ALPHA WAVES
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relatively slow and large brainwaves and generally occur during relaxed wakefulness.
MELATONIN
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is a hormone that helps regulate circadian rhythms.

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