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| `methods for viewing structure of brain only |
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MRI (magnetic Resonance Imaging)
CT scan
Abnormalities?
development ? |
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| viewing function of brain |
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fMRI (seconds) +spatially precise -need a baseline
PET (minutes) -radiation -not spatially precise |
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| method for recording surface electral response |
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EEG: ongoing wave pattern
ERP: Average response (compare different tasks)
+most rapid +easier on participants -not spatially precise |
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| recording depth electrical response |
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+rapid response
+most sptially precise (single neurons)
+Qs about specialization
-invasive, rarely used (on monkeys) |
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| __ carries information from the retina to the brain |
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| 'what' in visual association cortex |
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ventral stream
temporal lobe
specific objects (face detection)
large receptive fields |
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| 'where' in visual association cortex |
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dorsal stream
pariental lobe
location of object
large receptive fields |
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| HINT: binocular is a ___ process |
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| bottom up because the eyes are apart |
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| what are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as meaningful sounds? |
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| sound waves are compressing and expanding air molecules |
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| ICLICKER sound travels in what order? |
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| pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, ossicles, cochlea |
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| Right ear goes to which hemisphere? |
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receptors in/near muscles
limb/ body position
knowing where your body is in space
you lose this when you are drunk
VTK losing touch |
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| skin senses like pressure, texture, vibration, temp, pain |
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| 5 receptor types (tastebuds) |
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| salt, sour, bitter, sweet, umami (savory) |
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| ICLICKER weber's law: how different doe stimulus need to be? |
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| the minimal difference depends on the type of stimuus, it's a proportion |
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| mentally normal consciousness: |
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stimulation?
orientation to perso, time, place?
short term memory (ball, flag tree) |
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| altered levels of consciousness |
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not a different state
range from most mild: confused and disoriented to coma don't respond to painful stimulation |
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| average of thoughts that are " task-unrelated' |
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| the person's subjective experience of the world and the mind |
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after philosopher rene descartes
a mental screen or stage on which things appear to be presented for viewing by the mind's eye |
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| how things seem to the conscious person |
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| the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others |
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| ability for self-control, planning, memory or thought |
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| the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body |
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| four basic properties of consciousness |
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| intentionality, unity, selectivity, and transience |
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| the quality of being directed toward an object |
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resistance to division
you can't study and watch tv at the same time |
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the capacity to include some objects and not others
cocktail party phenomon |
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| cocktail party phenomenon |
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people tune in one message even when they filter out others nearby
your name is mentioned |
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| a low level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind imputs sensations and may output behavior |
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| consciousness in which you know and are abe to report your mental state |
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| a chemical that influences consciousness or behavior by altering the brain's chemical message system |
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| the tendency for larger doses of a drug to be required over time to achieve the same effect |
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substances that reduce the activity of the Central Nervous System
alcohol |
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| the idea that alcohol effects can be produced by people's expectations of how alcohol will influence them in a particular situation |
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a condition that results when alcohol hampers attention leading people to respond in simple ways to complex situations
drown in your beer or make a pass |
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| substances that excite the central nervous system, heightening arousal and activity levels |
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highly addictive drugs derived from opium that relieves pain
methaone, morphine,, heroin, oxycotin, codeine |
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| endorphins or endogenous opiates |
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| neurotransmitters that have a similar structure to opiates and that appear to play a role in how the brain copes internally with pain and stress |
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drugs that alter sensation and perception and often cause visual and auditory hallucinations
mescaline, LSD, PCP |
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| the leaves and buds of the hemp plant |
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| an altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that one's actions are occurring involuntarily |
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| the reduction of pain through hypnosis in people who are susceptible to hypnosis |
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| if you think you are suseptible you can be. people with active, vivid imaginations or who are easily absorbed in television , are good candidates |
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| the practice of intentional contemplation |
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| alpha waves they are associated with relaxation |
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| when hightly hypnotizable people were given standard hypnotic induction instructions. they were then asked to listen to a oice on a tape, and then were told that the tape was playing again (although it was not). what brain area was activated during both tasks? |
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| right anterior cingulate cortex |
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| ecstatic religious experiences may have a basis in the same brain region associated with |
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