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Chapter 1- The Major Issues
What is the soft problem 1,
What is the hard problem 2,
Biological psychology is 3
20  cards
Chapter 2- Nerve Cells and Nerve Impulses
What did cajal discover 1,
What is the plasma membrane 2,
What is the nucleus 3
45  cards
Chapter 3- Synapses
Sherrington deduced that transmis...,
What is the correct sequence of c...,
What is a synapse 3
64  cards
Chapter 4- Anatomy of the Nervous System
Central nervous system 1,
Peripheral nervous system 2,
What are the limbs controlled by 3
51  cards
Chapter 5- Development and Plasticity of the Brain
Human central nervous system begi...,
Brain weight at birth 2,
Brain weight a 1 year 3
81  cards
Chapter 6- Vision
How do we perceive objects 1,
How do we store the information i...,
What is the law of specific nerve...
76  cards
Chapter 7- The Other Sensory Systems
What are sound waves 1,
True or false we are able to dete...,
True or false audition depends up...
109  cards
Chapter 8- The Control of Movement
Name the three categories of vert...,
What are smooth muscles 2,
What are skeletal or striated mus...
91  cards
Chapter 9- Wakefulness and Sleep
True or false the body generates ...,
What is an endogenous circannual ...,
What do endogenous circannual rhy...
77  cards
Chapter 12- Emotional Behaviors
What are the three components of ...,
The autonomic nervous system is a...,
What does the sympathetic branch ...
97  cards
Chapter 13- The Biology of Learning and Memory
Classical conditioning 1,
Pavlov believed that conditioning 2,
Operant conditioning 3
72  cards
Chapter 14- Cognitive Functions
The left hemisphere of the cerebr...,
Left hemisphere only sees 2,
Auditory information each hemisph...
43  cards

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