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| Frontal Lobe controls what? |
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| Judgement, Planning, and processing of new memories |
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| receives input from the body and registers body position. |
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| The brain's ability to modify itself after damage |
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| The oldest and innermost region of the brain, located at the swelling after slightly entering the skull |
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| The slight swelling of the spinal cord when entering the skull |
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| Part of the brain at the top of the brainstem |
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| The reticular formation does what? |
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| It takes some signals going to the thalmus and takes it to other parts of the brain. responsible for alertness and "reward centers" |
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| the way that our unconcious thought processes and how our childhood experiences effect later character |
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| Carls Rodgers and Abraham Maslow are: |
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| study of the brains structure |
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| Study of how the brain functions |
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| the science of behavior and mental processes |
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| examining an individual to provide findings for a large group of people |
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the belief that knowledge comes
from experience. |
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the belief that knowledge comes
from reasoning. |
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| Socrates and Plato believed: |
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| the mind and body are seperate, we are born with innate ideas, when we die our mind "spirit" lives on |
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| knowledge grows from empiricism |
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| knowledge grows from experience |
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in Plato and Socrates, Proposed first model of
communication between mind
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| believed that we are a blank slate at birth |
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| founder of American psycology |
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| Temporal Lobe controls what? |
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| auditory functions, recognition, |
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| Occipital Lobe controls what? |
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| Corpus Collosum does what? |
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| Connects the two hemispheres of the brain and carries messages between them |
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| a substance that calm neural activity and slow body functions |
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| a substance that excites neural activity and speeds up body functions |
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| amphetamines (meth and cocaine and ectasy) are: |
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| distort perceptions and evoke sensory images |
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pressure changes in a medium capable
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| Tympanic membrane (eardrum): |
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vibrates in
response to pressure changes in the
atmosphere |
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three bones that transmit vibrations
from the tympanic membrane to the oval
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fluid-filled, bony, snail-shell shaped
chamber containing the smaller structures of
the inner ear. |
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receptors for sound attached to
the auditory nerve. |
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endolymph filled tubes
containing hair cells that bend as endolymph
flows by. |
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| Limbic system consists of what? |
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| amygdala, thalmus, hypothalmus, and the hippocampus |
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fluid-filled sacks containing
hair cells that are stimulated by calcium rocks
(otoliths) as the head moves |
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| vestibular system controls what? |
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| As we are moving, objects that are closer move faster and objects that are farther move slower |
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| motivational systems and some more "reward centers" |
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