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all or nothing principle - ✔✔The principle that once the electrical impulse

reaches a certain level of intensity (its threshold), it fires and moves all the way

down the axon without losing any intensity.




synapses - ✔✔tiny gaps between dentrites and axons of different neurons




Neuraltransmitters - ✔✔transmit, or carry, information across the synaptic gap

to the next neuron

,Acetylcholine (ACh) - ✔✔stimulates the firing of neurons and is involved in

the action of muscles, learning, and memory




Alzheimer's disease - ✔✔degenerative brain disorder that involves a decline

in memory, have an acetylcholine deficiency




GABA - ✔✔a major inhibitory neurotransmitter




decreased GABA levels - ✔✔lead to anxiety




glutamate - ✔✔exciting many neurons to fire and is especially involved in

learning and memory




norepinephrine - ✔✔inhibits the firing of neurons in the central nervous

system, but it excites the heart muscle, intestines, and urogenital tract

,dopamine - ✔✔control voluntary movement and affects sleep, mood,

attention, learning, and the ability to recognize rewards in the environment




seratonin - ✔✔involved in the regulation of sleep, mood, attention, and learning




endorphins - ✔✔natural opiates that mainly stimulate the firing of neurons;

block pain & increase pleasure




oxytocin - ✔✔hormone and neurotransmitter that plays an important role in

the experience of love and social bonding




agonist - ✔✔A chemical that mimics the action of a neurotransmitter.




antagonist - ✔✔drug that blocks a neurotransmitter's effects

, brain lesioning - ✔✔abnormal disruption in the tissue of the brain resulting

from injury or disease



psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of behavior and mental processes




science - ✔✔psychology uses systematic methods to observe human

behavior and draw conclusions




behavior - ✔✔everything we do that can be directly observed




mental process - ✔✔The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of

us experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly




critical thinking - ✔✔thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and

conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates

evidence, and assesses conclusions.

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