What is a change in the enviroment of an organism?
stimulus
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What produces a rapid involuntary response to a stimuli?
simple reflex
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Grasping, sucking and stepping are all what reflexes?
newborn
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What is that part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord?
central nervous system
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What is the part of the nervous system that detects a stimulus?
receptor
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Which part of the body which produces a response to a stimulus?
effector
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What transmits messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands?
motor neurone
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What are the thin projections which extend from the cell body and connect with the other neurones allowing electrical impulses to pass from one to another called?
dendrites
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What is in most neurones and is insulated in the myelin sheath?
axons
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What is a type of response which occurs to an unconditioned stimulus without prior conditioning?
unconditioned response
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What is a progressive condition that damages the nervous system and leaves muscles wasted and weak?
motor neurone disease
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Which drug blocks the reuptake channel and keeps on stimulating the motor neurone?
Prozac
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Which part of the brain is responsible for intelligence, language, memory and consciousness?
cerebral cortex
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What is it called when a child has been isolated from human interaction and therefore adapts to the wild or an animal?
feral
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Which cell in the human body has no nucleus?
red blood cell
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What is the gap between adjacent neurons which impulses are transmitted across from?
synapses
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Where are effector cells in?
glands and muscles
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What passes a message?
transmitter
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What can only store something for 30 seconds?
short term memory
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What can feral children not learn after eight years old?
language
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Card 2
Front
What produces a rapid involuntary response to a stimuli?
Back
simple reflex
Card 3
Front
Grasping, sucking and stepping are all what reflexes?
Back
Card 4
Front
What is that part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord?
Back
Card 5
Front
What is the part of the nervous system that detects a stimulus?
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