PSY 2501 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ganglion, Frontal Lobe, Autonomic Nervous System
12 Mar 2016
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Spinal animal: an animal whose spinal cord has been surgically disconnected from the brain to enable the study of behaviors that do not require brain control. Relex: a simple, highly stereotyped, and unlearned response to a paricular simulus. Movement: a brief; unitary acivity of a muscle or body part; less complex than an act. Acion patern: complex behavior, as disinct from a simple experiment. Motor program: a plan for acion in the nervous system. Closed-loop control mechanism: a control mechanism that provides a low of informaion from whatever is being controlled to the device that control it. Smooth movement: a slow, sustained moion that is oten controlled by basal ganglion. Open-loop control mechanism: a control mechanism in which feedback from the output of the system is not provided to the input control. Ballisic movement: a rapid muscular movement that is oten organized or programmed in the cerebellum.
