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| Discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical state, mental state, and environment. |
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Emphasizes changes in behavior due to bodily events that are associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts. |
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Emphasizes changes in an organism’s actions due to the environment and experience. |
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Emphasizes that changes in behavior are due to mental processes like memory, language, and problem solving. |
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Sociocultural Perspective |
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Emphasizes that changes in behavior are due to social and cultural influences. |
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Pyschodynamic Perspective |
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Emphasizes that changes in behavior are due to unconscious dynamics within a individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or energy. |
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Evidence relying on or derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement. |
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Early Psychological approach that emphasized the function or purpose of behavior or consciousness. |
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Ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgments’ on the basis of well supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotions or anecdotes. |
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precises definition of a term in a hypothesis, which specifies the operations for observing and measuring the process or phenomenon being defined. |
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Statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomenons. |
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The consistency of scores derived from a test, from one time and place to another. |
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Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure. |
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How strongly 2 variables are related to one another. |
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Detailed description of a particular individual |
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Observation takes place in an organism’s environment. |
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Allows researchers to control the environment. |
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Controlled test of a hypothesis in which the researcher minipulates one variable to discover the effect on another. |
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Group NOT exposed to treatment. (placebo) |
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Responses may be influenced by experimenters cue (double-blind study) |
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Study where subjects are followed and periodically reassessed over a period of time. |
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Study where subjects of a different age are compared at any given time. |
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Inactive Substance or fake treatment used as a control in a experiment or given to a patient by a medical practitioner. |
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experiment where neither the subjects or individuals running the study know which group of subjects is the control and which is the experiment until after the results are in. |
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Calls that aid nuerons by giving them nutrients, insulation, and removing their debris once they die. |
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| Back of the brain that contains the visual cortex |
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| Top of the brain that contains info for pressure, pain, touch, and temp. |
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| Sides of brain that contain auditory cortex |
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| Front of the brain/forehead. Contains the motor cortex, personality, making plans, taking initiative, right from wrong. |
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| Branches of a neuron that recieve info from other neurons + transmits them to cell body |
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| Part of the neuron that keeps the cell alive and determines whether it will survive or not. |
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| Extending fiber in which conducts impulses away from the cell body and transmits them to other neurons/muscles/glail cells |
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| site where nerve impulse is transmitted from one nerve cell to another |
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| They don't travel to the brain. |
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How do spinal reflexes differ from normal reflexes?
EX. Pull your hand off a hot stove |
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| Substances secreted by organs that affect the fuctioning of other organs |
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| chemical substances in the nervous system that are similar in structure and actions. |
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| recieves, processes,stores, and interprets incoming info. Sends messages to muscles, glands, + internal organs. |
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| Peripheral nervous system |
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| everything outside the brain and spinal cord. |
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| Navigates blood vessels, glands, + organs |
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| Sympathetic Nervous System |
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| Mobalizes body for action |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system |
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| enables body to cconserve and store energy |
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| nerves that are connected to sensory receptors. |
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hormone involved with sleep and mood.
Depression |
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Serotonin
Low levels assossiated with what? |
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| Hormone assossiated with muscle action, memory, and emotion. |
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Acetylcholine
Low levels = ?
Alzheimers |
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Hormone assossiated with learning, memory, emotions.
Low = Parkinsons
High = Skytzo |
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Dopomine?
Low levels = ?
High levels = ? |
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In through dendrites
goes through cell body
travels down axon to axon terminals
crosses synaptic gap and binds to receptors of other neuron |
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| What's the path of a neural transmition? |
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| Assossiated with drives like thirst, sex, emotions, reproduction, temp, and automatic nervous system. |
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| Directs incoming sensory messages, except for smell, to higher centers. (Hypothalumus) |
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| Releases hormones, regulates endoctorine glands |
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| breathing, heart rate, brain stem |
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| Certain skills, some reflexes, balance + movement |
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| evaluates sensory info to sdetermain the importance of something and it meditates anxiety. |
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| Visual, Spatial, abilities, facial recognition, appreciation for art + music. |
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| Responsibility of the right hemisphere? |
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| language, logical, symbols, tastes. |
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| Responsibility of the left hemisphere? |
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| Studying body + brain tissue by using magnetic feilds and special radio recievers. |
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| Analyzes biochemical activity in the brain by using injections of glucose and a radioactive element. |
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| Recording of neural activity detected by electrodes |
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Sg 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM
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Stages of the sleep cycle?
How long does it last? |
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| Physical energy emmitted or reflected by objects |
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| When the brain organizes and interprets sensory info |
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| holds receptors for hearing |
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| Hold receptors for dim light |
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| Holds receptors involved in color vision |
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