The central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system
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What is the central nervous system made up of?
brain and spinal cord
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What is the peripheral nervous system made up of?
Somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system. the autonomic nervous system is made up of sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system
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What are neurotransmitters?
they are chemicals found within the NS that pass messages from one neuron to another across a synapse
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What is the structure of a neuron?
nucleus, dendrites, cell body, axon, myelin sheath, axon terminal and nodes of ranvier
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What are the hormones associated with aggression?
testosterone , cortisol and serotonin
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What are the 3 types of bodily rhythms?
circadian rhythm, ultradian rhythm and infradian rhythm
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What are the different types of brain scanning techniques?
Positron Emission Tomography Scan (PET), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Electroencephalogram (EEG)
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Outline one strength from Rain et al's study
large sample - increased generalizability
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Outline one weakness from Brendget et al's study
Correlational confusions are never certain - correlations don't prove causation
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