Psychology Chapter 6 Body and Behavior

This is your brain and your spinal cord.

• Sympathetic Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

• Parasympathetic Nervous System

The long, thin cells of nerve tissue along which messages travel to and from the brain

• dendrites

• neurons

• synapses

• axon

If a nerve cell is not pushed past a minimum point, the neuron does not fire at all.

• True

• False

Destruction of the myelin sheath is related to Parkinson's Disease.

• True

• False

The nerves that branch out from the spinal cord.

• Sympathetic Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

• Parasympathetic Nervous System

works to conserve energy and to enhance the body’s ability to recover.

• Somatic Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

• Parasympathetic Nervous System

the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles

• Somatic Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

• Central Nervous System

• Parasympathetic Nervous System

 located behind the spinal cord, helps control posture, balance and voluntary movements.

• reticular activating system

• hypothalamus

• cerebellum

• limbic system

 regulates our emotions and motivations

• reticular activating system

• hypothalamus

• cerebellum

• limbic system

concerned with organization, planning and creative thinking

• somatosensory cortex

• corpus callosum

• frontal lobe

• occipital lobe