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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/11/2011

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Attitude
Definition
A postive, neutral or negative evaluation of a person, issue or object.
Term
Intrinsic Motivation Phenomenon
Definition
People who are rewarded with material objects for doing a task show a decreased interest in the task.
Term
Hyperpolarization is
Definition
a condition that produces inhibition at a synapse
Term
Self-esteem is most likely enhanced when one attributes one's success to
Definition
Internal Causes
Term
Neurological Activity that moves outward from the central nervous system towards the muscles and glads is called...
Definition
efferent
Term
One day a women visits her old school. As she walks down the hall she remembers events that she had not thought about for years. This exemplifies...
Definition
Contextual retrieval
Term
The hindbrain
Definition
Primary functions include; balance, motor coordination, breathing, digestion, and general arosal (sleeping and waking)

Vital functions nessisary for survival
Term
Parts of the hindbrain
Definition
Cerebellum
Medulla oblongata (breathing and digestion)
Reticular formation (arousal and alertness)
Term
The midbrain
Definition
Receives sensory and motor information
Term
Parts of the midbrain
Definition
Inferior and superior colliculi (sensorimotor reflexes)

Superior colliculi- receives this visual sensory input

Inferior colliculi- receives the auditory sensory input
Term
Forebrain
Definition
Is for complex perceptual, cognitive and behavioral processes
Term
Parts of the forebrain
Definition
Cerebral correct (perceptual cognitive and behavioral processes)

Basal gangila (movement)

Limbic system (emotion and memory)

Thalamus (sensory relay station for incoming sensory information but not smell)

Hypothalamus (hunger and thirst)
Term
Hypothalamus and it's 3 parts
Definition
Lateral-the hunger center

Ventromedial-"satiety center" let's you know when you've had enough to eat

Anterior- sexual activity center
Term
hypothalamus (lesions)


Aphagia

Hyperphagia

Lesions on the anterior
Definition
Aphagia: lacking hunger

Hyperphagia: very hungry

Inhibition in sexual activity
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