Post on 11-Jan-2016
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What is your nervous system?
MAKING YOU “WORK”
Your brain controls all of your behaviors.
A pilot controls a plane.
Your nervous system controls your behaviors.
Behaviors
OVERT
COVERT
What are Behaviors?
What are some OVERT Behaviors?
What are some COVERT Behaviors?
Behaviors
Keep us alive
FUN
What are Behaviors?
There are behaviors that….
….help to keep us alive.
There are behaviors that….
….are just fun.
Different parts of your nervous system...
….control different behaviors.
Some of the behaviors that keep you alive..
….are automatic.
RespirationGastrointestinal System
Cardiovascular System
Thermoregulation
These automatic behaviors are controlled by…
…your autonomic nervous system.
ANS Demo
Some of the behaviors that keep you alive...
….work like a thermostat.
Your hypothalamus “senses” a need...
….makes you “behave” to alleviate the need.
Most of the behaviors involved movements...
….and are controlled by our motor systems.
…and our sensory systems help us to do this.
All animals need to get information from the environment…
Visual System
Auditory System
Somatosensory System
Gustatory SystemOlfactory System
We then need to be able to learn and remember...
…things about our environment.
We then need to be able to learn and remember...
…things about our environment.
Learning and remembering is a job…
…for our limbic systems.
As our environment gets more complex…
…so do our behaviors.
As we came up with way that made it easy for us to keep ourselves alive…
…we had more time for fun behaviors.
…and use strategies.
Fun behaviors allow us to be creative…
Fun behaviors involve “higher cognitive functioning”…
…and are controlled by our cerebral cortex.
OR
Now, while your brain controls behaviors…
…your behaviors are changing your brains.
Behavior
Controls
Changes
So your behaviors change your brain…
…and make you unique.
“You are your nervous system”
Arnold Scheibel, UCLA
Behaviors are everything you do.
What are Behaviors?
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.
MAKING YOU “WORK”