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What is your nervous system?
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MAKING YOU “WORK”
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Your brain controls all of your behaviors. A pilot controls a plane. Your nervous system controls your behaviors.
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Behaviors OVERT COVERT What are Behaviors?
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What are some OVERT Behaviors?
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What are some COVERT Behaviors?
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Behaviors Keep us alive FUN What are Behaviors?
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There are behaviors that…. ….help to keep us alive.
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There are behaviors that…. ….are just fun.
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Different parts of your nervous system... ….control different behaviors.
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Some of the behaviors that keep you alive.. ….are automatic. Respiration Gastrointestinal System Cardiovascular System Thermoregulation
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These automatic behaviors are controlled by… …your autonomic nervous system.
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ANS Demo
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Some of the behaviors that keep you alive... ….work like a thermostat.
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Your hypothalamus “senses” a need... ….makes you “behave” to alleviate the need.
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Most of the behaviors involved movements... ….and are controlled by our motor systems.
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…and our sensory systems help us to do this. All animals need to get information from the environment… Visual SystemAuditory System Somatosensory System Gustatory System Olfactory System
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We then need to be able to learn and remember... …things about our environment.
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We then need to be able to learn and remember... …things about our environment.
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Learning and remembering is a job… …for our limbic systems.
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As our environment gets more complex… …so do our behaviors.
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As we came up with way that made it easy for us to keep ourselves alive… …we had more time for fun behaviors.
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…and use strategies. Fun behaviors allow us to be creative…
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Fun behaviors involve “higher cognitive functioning”… …and are controlled by our cerebral cortex. OR
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Now, while your brain controls behaviors… …your behaviors are changing your brains. Behavior Controls Changes
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So your behaviors change your brain… …and make you unique. “You are your nervous system” Arnold Scheibel, UCLA
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Behaviors are everything you do. What are Behaviors?
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Your Brain… receives information processes information stores information produces behaviors What role does the brain play in your behaviors? …that makes you who you are and makes you work.
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MAKING YOU “WORK”
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