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Central nervous system (CNS)
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Peripheral nervous system (PNS) |
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Intricate network of nerves carries information to and from the CNS |
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| Controls voluntary behavior |
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•Autonomic nervous system (ANS) |
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| Controls sutomatic functions |
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| quiets body returns to homeostasis |
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Corpus callosum is cut to control severe epilepsy |
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| Perception ,Emotion, overall analysis |
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Language comprehension
Receptive aphasia |
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| Switchboard…relays sensory info to the cortex |
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| –Regulates emotional behaviors and motives |
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–Associated with fear responses and other emotions
–This is what adolescents use for decision-making |
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| Associated with storing lasting memories |
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–Regulates body rhythms and sleep cycles
–Releases melatonin |
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| REM sleep happens in stage _______ |
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| sleep walking non rem stages |
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| repeated interupted breathing in sleep |
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| Sudden, irresistible sleep attacks |
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| Happen in real time, dream in stage 5 |
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| Activation-synthesis hypothesis |
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Brain searches through stored memories and manufactures (synthesizes) a dream |
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| Neurocognitive dream theory |
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–Dreams have more in common with waking thoughts and emotions |
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the study of progressive changes in behavior and abilities from conception to death |
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| the limits of the effects of heredity/ how your born |
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Attachment styles
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–Insecure-avoidant- no emotion
–Insecure-ambivalent- unsure |
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•Zone of proximal development… |
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| range of tasks unable to master alone, but can with capable partner |
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| building on developing knowledge |
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– Influenced by social and cultural factors
–Develops through dialogues with more capable people |
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| Piaget Theory of cognitive development |
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•Assimilation…apply existing mental patterns to new situations
•Accommodation…existing mental patterns are changed to accommodate new information
•Equilibration…period of adjustment |
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| Eriksons psychosocial theory |
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–Dealing with the dilemma “successfully” produces healthy development and satisfaction
-stages trust vs mistrust |
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Kohlbergs 3 leves of moral development
stages of life
(heinrich story) |
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•Preconventional…punishment and reward
•Conventional…authority, rules, and values
•Postconventional…self-guided ethics
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–Proposed that caring is also major element of moral development
–The Porcupine and the Moles |
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| Stuck not going anywhere ex. in field |
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| the process of detecting physical energies with the sensory organs |
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the mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns |
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| the minimum amount of stimulus energy a person can detect |
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| Processing multiple info noise and sight |
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| bringing together and integration of what is processed through diff. pathways |
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| begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information |
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–Cones…colors and daylight
–Rods…dim light, black and white
–Blind spot…‘hole’ with no receptors, optic nerve
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Coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in inner ear containing hair cells
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| …loss of some smell sensations |
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