Unit 3: Terms and Concepts

Absolute refractory period

Action potential

Adaptation

Adoption studies

Afferent nerve fibres

Agonist

All-or-none law

Antagonist

Autonomic nervous system (ANS)

Axon

Behavioural genetics

Brain plasticity

Central nervous system

Cerebellum

Cerebral cortex

Cerebral hemispheres

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

Chromosomes

Corpus callosum

Critical period

Dendrites

Dominant gene

Efferent nerve fibres

Electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB)

Electroencephalograph (EEG)

Endocrine system

Endorphins

Epigenetics

Excitatory PSP

Family studies

Fitness

Forebrain

Fraternal twins

Genes

Genetic drift

Genetic mapping

Genotype

Gila

Heterozygous condition

Hindbrain

Hippocampus

Homozygous condition

Hormones

Hypothalamus

Identical twins

Inclusive fitness

Inhibitory PSP

Lesioning

Limbic system

Medulla

Midbrain

Mutation

Myelin sheath

Natural selection

Nerves

Neurogenesis

Neurons

Neurotransmitters

Overextrapolation

Parasympathetic division

Perceptual asymmetries

Peripheral nervous system

Phenotype

Pituitary gland

Polygenic traits

Pons

Postsynaptic neuron

Postsynaptic potential (PSP)

Prefrontal cortex

Presynaptic neuron

Recessive gene

Resting potential

Reticular formation

Reuptake

Soma

Somatic nervous system

Split-brain surgery

Stem cells

Sympathetic division

Synapse

Synaptic cleft

Synaptic pruning

Synaptic vesticles

Terminal buttons

Thalamus

Twin studies

Zygote

Charles Darwin

Donald Hebb

Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley

Doreen Kimura

James Olds and Peter Milner

Wilder Penfield

Candace Pert and Solomon Snyder

Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga