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”