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An individual nerve cell
Accompained by glial cells, type of cells tht support neurons in a a variety of ways. |
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Dendrits- receive messages from other neurons.
Soma- the same, sends messages to its own nerve implules.
Axon- Messages come from the soma |
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| Another name for neuron impulse |
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| Space do neurons communicate with each other |
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| Subparts of Nervous system & explain the function of each |
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Central nervous system- Brain & Spinal cord
Peripheral nervous system- Carries information to and from the CNS
Somatic nervous system- Sense organs & Skeletal muscles
Autonomic nervous system- Serves the internal organs and glands |
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| All the techniques used to map/view the brain |
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Central nervous system- brain & spinal cord
Peripheral nervous- somatic & Autonomic system
Autonomic system- Sympathetic & Parasympathetic system
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| Function of each Cerebral hemisphere |
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Called the Corpus callosum
the left side controls the right side
the right side controls the left side |
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| Know the forebrain, midbrain, & hindbrain |
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Forebrain - Swnsory messaes on their way to the cortex
Hindbrain- Brainstem reflex control of heart rate, breathing, swallowing, like
Midbrain- conduction and swiching center
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| The sum of all external conditions |
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Which one is more important
nature or nurture? |
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| What are genes and Located? |
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They are mall segment that affect a particular process or personal characteriatic
Located in the womb to the tomb |
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| Dominant & Recessive genes |
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Dominant- controls will appear everytime the gene is present
Recessive- must be paired with a second recessive gene |
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| Blooming & pruning refers to what? |
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| Congential problems & Genetic disorders |
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Congential problems- problems or defects during prenatat development in the womb.
Gentic disorders- problems that are inherited characteristics |
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| intellect grows through processes that he called assiilation and accommodation |
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| Is a conflict between pesonal impulses and the social world |
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| Scaffolding- a framework or temporary support to solve problems |
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She was a thanatologist who studies death.
She put it in five different stages of grief, Denial and isolation, anger, bargainng, deression, and acceptance. |
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Flow of sensation to the brain
thinking of walking into the house |
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| Occurs because the sensory receptors do not transduce all of the energies |
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| Giving priority to a particular incoming sensory message |
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| sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and umami |
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| What is phantom limb pain? |
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| Including pain for months or years after losing a limb. Because the limb feels real to the person |
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| Sensations produced by the skin, muscles, joints, viscera, and organs of balance |
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| The senses of touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold |
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| Senses of body movement and positioning |
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| Proposes that pain messages pass through nerual "gates" in the spinal cord |
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| Organizing preception by beginning with low-level features |
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| Applying higher-level knoledge to rpidly organize sensory information into a meaningful preception |
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| The preceved size of an object remains constant, despite changes in its retinal image |
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| The preceived shape of an object is unaffected by change in itrs retinal image |
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| The apparent brightness of objects remains the same as long as they are illuminated by the same amount of light |
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| The study of behavior and mental process |
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| What every you put you mind to do anything. |
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| Overt And Convert behaviors |
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Directly observable actions & responses
Private, Internal activities such as thinking, dreaming, remembering, mental events |
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| Empirical in psycholoical research |
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| grathering information gained from direct observation |
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| Types of reseach specialties |
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| Comparative psychologitst, Cognitive , Biopsychologist, gender, social, Evolutionary, Cultural, Forensic |
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| Decription, Understanding, Prediction, Control |
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Seeks evidence that appears to confirm their beliefs and avoid evidence that contradicts them.
Personality trait, shape of your skull |
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| Why does pseudopsychology & astrology seem to work? |
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Astrology holds the positons of stars & planets
Pseudopsychologies appearance of sciece but are actually false. |
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| Underlying assumption of behaviorism & why? |
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The study of observable behavior.
Overstatement . |
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| Underlying assumption of Gestalt psychology? |
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| They studied thinking, learning, and preception |
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| What is a neuron & its function? |
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An indiavidual nerve cell
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