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    Heart Rate Lab

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    selecting variables In this lab‚ we will be studying the difference of heart rate between boys and girls. There are many things that can increase heart rate‚ such as exercise‚ drinking coffee‚ taking certain pills‚ drinking an energy drink‚ feeling a strong emotion‚ etc. I have chosen to use exercise as a means of increasing the heart rate of my subjects‚ more precisely‚ 20 sit-ups. There are many reasons why your heart rate increases when you exercise‚ the most important one being that your muscles

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    Target Heart Rate

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    Age___18_____Resting Heart Rate(bpm) __70____ Maximum Heart Rate (bpm)_220_____ -__18____= ____202__ Target Heart Rate (bpm)_202_____ -_70_____= _135_____ _135_____X __.5____=___66___+ __70____= ___136___ (lower) ___135___X __.85____=__114.7____+ __70____= ___184.7___ (upper) Part II Heart Rate after step/cardio test ____135_____ 3524250267970 Was this person within their target heart rate? (Please circle) Yes or No Participant #2: _______Savanah Spinter___________ Age___14_____Resting Heart Rate(bpm)

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    maintains a proper metabolism‚ respiration and temperature. It also helps with the activities in our lives such as remembering and making decisions and learning. 4. Give one example of a neurotransmitter? What is the purpose of this specific neurotransmitter? One example is acetylcholine. It is found in the nervous system and it sends messages relating to our skeletal muscles. Also‚ it helps with the capacity of memory capabilities. 5. Who are neuroscientists? They study the brain and behavior;

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    Pulse and Heart Rate

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    Susan Harrison Aims: 1. To make simple measurements of body parameters 2. To assess whether they fall in the normal range Introduction In this practical you are going to measure your height (cm) and weight (Kg)‚ % skinfold fat‚ pulse rate (b/min) and blood pressure (mmHg). Put values on Excel sheet provided. 1. Size Equipment: Stadiometer; weighing scales. Measure your height (without shoes) in centimetres (cm) and weight in kilogrammes (Kg). Compare your weight with reference

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    Heart Rate and Exercise

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    Literature Review The human heart is a very complicated organ‚ with the main purpose to pump life sustaining blood throughout the human body. It also supplies oxygen and nutrients to all areas and clears harmful waste from the body. The heart is made up of cardiac muscle which beats on its own. According to the article ‘heartwhich was written by The National Geographic the heart will slow down or speed up depending on how the body is being used. This is done by nerve signals which are being sent from

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    Recovery Heart Rate

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    Part I: Pulse Rate Take your pulse at the wrist‚ as described on the Work Out tab of 4.02‚ and record it below. Your count for 30 seconds ___ x 2 = ___ bpmDay 1 _____Day 2 _____Day 3 _____Total _____ divide by 3 = _____ This is your Resting Heart RateObtain your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR) by subtracting your age from 220. Example 220 – 21 = 199 1. Subtract your resting heart rate (RHR) that you calculated in Part II above from the maximum heart rate (MHR) that you just determined in Step

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    Heart Rate Lab

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    Discussion Heart Rate Our hypothesis stated 1.) The heart rate increases substantially when a person performs a physical activity and 2.) Females have heart rates greater than males’. In this experiment we measured the resting heart rates and exercise heart rates of both the male and females that are in the class. We calculated the results that were taken by each member of each group in the class (6 males and 16 females total). The average resting heart rate for women was 71.8 beats per minute

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    154) Which component of the nervous system mobilizes the body in times of stress? A) central B) somatic C) sympathetic D) parasympathetic Answer: C Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 120‚ 132 Skill: Factual 155) The part of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousal is called the ______________ nervous system. A) central B) somatic C) sympathetic D) parasympathetic Answer: C Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 120‚ 132 Skill: Factual ryerson.testbank @gmail

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    Cause N Effect

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    Procrastination Leads to Stress and Causes Bad Grades Submitted by: trinalvDate Submitted: 12/27/2008 11:30 PM Category: English Words: 807 Pages: 4 Views: 2202 | My purpose is to explain the reason people procrastinate and how it can cause poor grades and stress. I of course procrastinated for weeks and then did research and changed my topic four times. Once I figured out what I wanted to write about it was fairly easy to find the topic surprisingly. There was a lot of psychological information

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    Nervous System Practice Quiz Which ancestral region of the brain is responsible for modern human’s speech and ability to do algebra? -Forebrain It is your turn to do your presentation. You have worried about this moment all month long. Are you prepared? Will someone spot that ring of sweat forming under your arms? Because of the activity of your __________ nervous system‚ ____________. -Sympathetic….epinephrine shoots through your body and your lunch suddenly does not agree with you The corpus

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