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- autonomic nervous system
- self-regulated acction of organs/glands
- somatics nervous system
- controls voluntary movements of skeletal muscles
- sympathetic nervous system
- arousing
- parasympathetic
- calming
- gender roles
- a set of expected behaviors for males/females
- trichromatic theory of vision
- theoery that retina contains three different color receptors- green/red/blue, which when stimulated in any combination can produce the perception of any color
- opponent-process theory of vision
- theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black) enable color vision
- wernicke's area
- interprets speech
- broca's area
- controls speech muscles
- bushy, branching extensions of neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscles/glands
- dendrite
- extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscle/glands
- axon