Parts of synapses - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Socialization agents correct answer: Express different expectations for children based on sex, affects their behavior Risk taking correct answer: Begins early, boys take more and more serious risks than girls Adolescence correct answer: Gradual period of transition from childhood to adulthood, process of soft events Puberty correct answer: Attainment of sexual maturation, one of many adolescent transitions Critical Period correct answer: Developmental time window when rapid chan...

Gender socialization and risk taking from module 1 review (expectations) correct answer: -Literature shows nearly all socialization agents for children express different expectations for children based on sex -gendered socialization therefore affects children's behaviors Changes in prefrontal cortex prior to puberty correct answer: prefrontal cortex grows just before puberty -controls planning, working memory, organization, and modulates mood -as it matures, people reason better, develo...

Bios 286 - Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Functions of the brain - Correct Answer ️️ -central control of organs, consciousness, movement, problem solving, emotions, speech, perception Two types of cells in nervous system - Correct Answer ️️ -Neurons and glial cells Main purpose of neurons - Correct Answer ️️ -Receive and transmit info, sense environment, and muscle response Main purpose of glial cells - Correct Answer ️️ -Insulate neurons, transport nourishment, an...

Branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive information - Answer-Dendrites The part of the neuron that contains the nucleus, which processes and integrates information - AnswerCell Body / Soma A threadlike extension of a neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body - Answer-Axon Nerve - Answer-A bundle of axons makes up a ___ Branches of the axon that allow one neuron to pass the signal to multiple effectors - Answer-Axon Collaterals At the axon hillock - Ans...

PSYCH 1101 Exam 2 UNCC Already Graded A biological psychology a branch of psychology that studies the links between biological processes (genetic, neural, hormanal) and psychological processes. Plasticity the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience Neuron nerve cell Neuron parts Cell body, dendrites, axon. cell body of neuron contains nucleus, life support center dendrite the bush...

Excitatory synapses make the post-synaptic cell less likely to fire. - ANSWER-False The neural tissues are: - ANSWER-Spinal cord, sensory neurons, and brain How do the glial cells (i.e., myelin sheath) speed up the firing of neurons? - ANSWER-The cell wraps extensions of a fatty insulating substance (myelin) around the axons of neurons. The action potential is: - ANSWER-A result of the movement of ions. Receptors are made from membrane-bound polyribosomes. - ANSWER-True List the 4...

APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2024/2025 | Graded A+. What are the functions of the nervous system? ANS- detects changes, make deci- sions, stimulates muscle and gland tissue, and maintains homeostasis 2. Receiving information, receptors detect changes, transduce into electrical impulse, and carries information to CNS is ANS- sensory function 3. CNS, coordinates incoming information, makes decisions on how the body will respond is ANS- integrative function 4. ca...

Brain stem Connects the brain and spinal cord includes midbrain (Controls eye movement and processes visual and auditory information), pons (group of nerves connecting different parts of the brain; includes some cranial nerves which are involved in facial movement and transmitting sensory information), and medulla oblongata (control center for heart and lungs regulating breathing, sneezing, and swallowing) Diencephalon Base of brain includes thalamus (relay station for signals coming in...

APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 Graded A+. Receiving information, receptors detect changes, transduce into electrical impulse, and carries information to CNS is ANS- sensory function 3. CNS, coordinates incoming information, makes decisions on how the body will respond is ANS- integrative function 4. carries signal to effectors, acts out decision, SNS and ANS is ANS- motor function APHY 101 Final Exam Questions and Answers - Latest 2024/2025 | Graded ...

Adolescence correct answer: -GRADUAL period of transition from childhood to adulthood -Process of "soft" events rather than discrete events -Difficult to characterize precise onset and offset Puberty correct answer: -Attainment of sexual maturation -Just one of many adolescent transitions (initial puberty and late puberty) -Onset of the BIOLOGICAL CHANGES associated with adolescence in humans that often signals onset of adolescence, although timing varies among human adolescents Cr...