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Psychology
Definition
the study of the mind and behavior
Term

Body

 

Definition
amalgam of physiological process working in concert
Term
Mind
Definition
Byproduct of brain function
Term
soul
Definition
aquired traits
Term
dualists
Definition
mind and body work together
Term
monists
Definition
mind and body work seperately
Term
Gerald Edelman
Definition

neutral darwinism

 

veentrand mapping-brain continuously monitoring itself

 

evolution of the brain:every 17 milliseconds brain will change itself, always changing

 

born to mate

Term
Pinker
Definition
brain is natural computer
Term
eagleman
Definition
immanent mind-byproduct of everyday enviroment
Term
Psychology is made up of what 3 elements of science?
Definition

Philosophy

Biology

Anatomy

Term
John Stewart Mill
Definition
Economist, Food Supply, Money
Term
Time Period 2
Definition
"the great schools>Birth of Psychology
Term
Time Period 3
Definition
"The Great Schools">Testers (children)
Term
Time Period 4 and 5
Definition
development
Term
1879
Definition

Lepzig, Germany

Wihelm Maximilian Wundt (Formal)

Called to testify car wreck-1st Psychology Labratory for research

 

*walk around stick someone, ask "how does you feel?"

Term
introspection
Definition
your subjected experience= psychology, asking
Term
What are the 3 continua of emotion?
Definition

pleasant & unpleasant

tense & relaxed

excited & depressed

 

*people feel different about the same things*

Term
William Titchoner
Definition

school called "structualism"- image associated with feeling

-mind and brain (same thing)

-seperate structures for every event (anticipation)

Term

William James

1890

Definition
School @ Harvard Functionalism-purposes of consciousness and why; not without stucture of the mind
Term
book still taught at Harvard
Definition
Principles of Psychology
Term
manic phase
Definition
always something new experience reality all at once, not in pieces
Term
Gestault Psychology
Definition

why you could see pieces and the whole thing

 

*Gestault is german for Whole*

Term
Wolfgang Kohler
Definition

Perseptional constantly-what you can't see you invision

what cues we look for: speed and distance

Term
ID
Definition
pleasure principle, primary process thinking biological component
Term
EGO
Definition
reality principle psychological component secondary process thinking
Term
SUPEREGO
Definition
social component, moral imparatives
Term
Base Motivators (5)
Definition

conflict

anxiety

mental processes are engaged beyond our awareness

unconscious

unfufilled sexual desires

conflict & anxiety are immanent

Term
Behaviorism
Definition

Skinner & John Watson

only believe in what they can see

 

Term
Classical Conditioning
Definition

 

USC...>UCR

 

unconditional stimulus...>illicutes uncondtioned response

Term
NS + UCS...>UCR
Definition
Neutral stimulus(food) + Unconditional stimulus...> unconditioned response
Term

NS(10) ....> CR

 

Definition
neutral stimulus 10 times causes reaction conditioned response
Term
Operant Conditioning
Definition
discriminative stimulus>behavior>reinforce (+ or -)
Term
neuron
Definition
electrochemical unidirectional oragnelle of the brain
Term
What three states does a neuron exist in?
Definition

Polarized (-70mv)

Depolarized (+35mv)

Repolarized (-70mv)

Term
What are the three types of neurons?
Definition

sensory

motor

interneuron - brain and spinal cord

Term
Dr. Byron Wadley
Definition
The guy that drugged chilton HAHA
Term
Deja Vu
Definition

Imagine a train on a circular track, miss it the first time, pick up the second time

 

*diziness following deja vu, having been felt that before, temp er satz post-ictal symptomology*

Term

Pre-ictal

ictal

Post-ictal

Definition

1.) before seizure

2.) during seizure

3.) after seizure

Term
Dendrites
Definition
take in information into cell nucleus
Term
cell nucleus
Definition

what type of neuron?

when the neuron fires or doesn't fire?

Keeps the cell body alive

Term
mitochondrion
Definition
generating energy taking out waste
Term
axonal hillock
Definition
where axon gets narrow
Term
myelin sheaths
Definition

fat/big conducts the electricity

-current tends to jump

 

Term
Nodes of Ranvier
Definition
spaces in between
Term
green dots (schwann cells)
Definition
keep myelin sheath alive
Term
Microfilaments and tubules
Definition

from cell body to synapses:move vesticles to synapse

(one-way)

Term
terminal branches/terminal buton
Definition
where the microtubules terminate
Term
neurotransmitters
Definition
carried by vesticles
Term

Pre-synaptic cleft

synaptic cleft

post-synaptic cleft

Definition

1.) before space

2.) space

3.) after space

Term
What three things happen to neurotransmitters in synapse eats synapse
Definition

1.) Some neurotransmitter stays in space

2.) some taken up by recieving dendrites

3.) some n.t. is taken back up by sending axon in re-uptake process

Term

more seretonin in the synapse=?

 

Definition
happiness.......
Term
Prozac
Definition
blocks re-uptake of seretonin in the synapse
Term
ACH
Definition
strongly associated with memory
Term
antagonist
Definition

inhibit

blocked cellular activity

Term

agonist

 

Definition

excitory

enhanced cellular activity

 

Term

ACH Acetylcholine
+ or -

what does it impact?

Definition

both +and-

memory

Term

Dopamine

+ or -

what does it impact?

Definition

both + and -

movement (fine and motor)

Term

Seretonin

+ or -

what does it impact?

Definition

both + and - (more +)

mood, hunger, thirst, sleep, arousal emotions

 

Term

Norepinephrine

+ or -

what does it impact?

Definition

+

control alertness and arousal

Term

GABA

+ or -

what does it impact?

Definition

-

major inhibitory (alcohol)

Term

Glutamate

+ or -

what does it impact?

Definition

+

Major excitory

Term

where are their pathways?

 

seretonin and dopamine

Definition

s: all in brain

 

d: pleasure/reward centers of brain

Term

Is the brain involoved in a reflex?

 

Definition
no
Term

The Nervous System is broken down into what 2 categories?

 

Definition
Peripheral and Central
Term

The peripheral nervous system is broken down into what 2 categories?

 

Definition
autonomic and somatic
Term
The autonomic systerm is made of what 2 categories?
Definition
Sympathetic and parasympathetic
Term
parasymathetic system
Definition
contracts pupils, slows heart beat, stimulates digestion, contracts bladder, allows bloodflow to sex organs
Term
Sympathetic
Definition
dialates pupils, speeds up heart beat, inhibits digestion, stimulates glucose release by liver, relaxes bladder, stimulates secretion endorphines
Term
last line of Hamlet....
Definition
and the rest is silent
Term
medulla
Definition
start of spinal cord, center of heartbeat and breathing
Term
pons
Definition
provides basic level of stimulation for the body and is very active in sleep/dreams
Term

RAS reticular formation

 

Definition
net like structure important part in arousal, heartbeat, and breathing
Term
SIDS
Definition
underactive pons too low level of stimulation
Term
thalamus
Definition
interneurons brain's switchboard (seat of the mind) (seat of consciousness)
Term
cerebellum
Definition
also called small brain seat of muscle memory
Term
quote about the brain
Definition
"If the brain were simple enough for us to figure it out, we would be too simple to figure it out."
Term
lymbic system
Definition
seat of fear and emotion
Term
pituitary gland
Definition
(endocrine) can signal adreanal glands to release adrenaline
Term
amygdala
Definition
fear and aggression
Term
Hipocampus
Definition
memory accessing long term and short term
Term
hypothalmus
Definition
pleasure center of the brain (rich in dopamine)
Term
basal ganglia
Definition
basic levesl of stress
Term
What are the 4 lobes of the brain
Definition

frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal

FPOT

Term
what are the 2 sulcus of the brain
Definition
lateral and central
Term

define

sulci

gyri

Definition

sulci-brain folds over and goes in

gyri- tissue sticks out

Term

where does the motor and center begin/end?

 

 

Definition

motor- rear of frontal

central-begining of parietal

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