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| A way of rigorously testing ideas. |
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| Gathering information first-hand. |
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| Proposed explanation that is testable objectively. |
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| Personal Bias and Expectancy Bias. |
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| Rules for Animal Research |
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| Appropriate, Benificial, Caring. |
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| Summary chart of number of results. |
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| Bar chart of Frequency Distribution. |
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| Stats that describe characteristics or results. |
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| Measures of Central Tendancy |
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| Average, distorted by outliars. |
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| Range and Standard Deviation. |
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| Lowest Number to Highest Number. |
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| Average Difference between each score from the mean. |
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| Organism's genetic make-up. |
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| Physical structure from genetics. |
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| Specialized to give orders and recieve information. |
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| Move away from the brain. |
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| Takes information between other neurons. |
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| Part of the Neuron that catches the message. |
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| Part of the Neuron that determines whether the message is excitatory or inhibitory. |
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| Part of the Neuron that processes and transfers the information (a long tube). |
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| Space between Nuerons, acts as insulator. |
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| Chemical messages that fit into other nuerons like lock and key |
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| The process of tranfering one Nuerotransmitter to another. |
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| Insulates and speeds up Nuerons. |
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| Bundles of sensory and motor neurons. |
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| Connects mucles with the spinal cord |
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| Uncontrollable functions of the nervous system. |
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| Chemical messages that influence body functions, behaiors, and emotions. |
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| Keeps endocrine system responses under control. |
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| Fires neurotransmitters, facilitates messages. |
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| Interferes with Nuerotransmitters, inhibits messages. |
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| Electroencepholograph, electrodes on the skull that measure brain activity. |
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| Computerized tomagrphy, x-rays detect soft tissue structure. |
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| Positron Emission Tomograph, measures brain activity by detecting radioactive glucose. |
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| Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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| Links spinal cord with the rest of the brain. |
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| Bulge along brainstem, Controls automatic functions. |
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| Connects Brain stem to Cerebellum, regulates sleeping and dreaming. |
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| Bundle of nerves in Brain Stem, keeps brain awake and alert. |
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| Pair of structures on top of brain stem, directs all incoming and outgoing messages. |
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| Controls complex movements |
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| Wraps around the thalemus, controls memory, motives, and emotion. |
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| Part of the limbic system, remeber location in space, connects present with past. |
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| Part of the limbic system, controls agression, fear, and emotionally-charged events. |
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| Part of the limbic system, give good feelings |
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| Part of the limbic system, does blood analysis, controls motivation, pituitary gland. |
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| Outside fo the brain, 2 nearly symmetrical hemispheres. |
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| Different parts of the brain do different things. |
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| Controls higher mental functions, planning, deciding, percieving, contains motor cortex. |
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| Top of the brain, controls sensation and comprehension, contains sematasensory cortex. |
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| Back of the brain, percieving the world around us, contains visual cortex. |
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| Lower brain, long-term memory, contains auditory cortex |
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