B6 Key words

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  • Created on: 20-05-13 19:14
Behaviour
everything an organism does, it is a response to all stimuli around it
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Memory
the storage and retrieval of information
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Axon
long thin extention of the cytoplasm of a neuron
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Central nervous systum (cns)
in mamals, the brain and spinal cord
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Cerebal cortex
part of the brain concerned with conscious behaviour
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Stimulus
a change in the enviroment that causes a response
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Gland
an effector organ, when a signal from the brain is recived enzymes or hormones are released
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Fatty sheath
wrapped around the outside of an axon to insulate neurons from one another
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motor
a neuron that carries nerve inpaulses from the brain
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Sensory
a neuron that carries inpaulses to the brain
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multi-store model
one explaination of how the human memory works
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response
an action or behaviour that is caused by a stimuli
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peripheral nervous system
the network of nerves connecting the central nervous system to the rest of the body
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Electrical inpaulses
signals carried by neurons
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synapse
the tiny gap between neurons that transmits nerve inpaulses from one neuron to the other
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reflex arc
a neuron pathway that brings about a reflex response
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pupil reflex
involuntery action by the eyes
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involuntery
an action that occurs without concious thought
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the storage and retrieval of information

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long thin extention of the cytoplasm of a neuron

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in mamals, the brain and spinal cord

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part of the brain concerned with conscious behaviour

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Shinelle Nhyira

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Impulses not Impaulses, otherwise this is a great resource 

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