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The stimulus in discrimination studies that remains constant throughout the experiment. |
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The stimulus in discrimination studies that varies throughout the experiment. |
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JUST NOTICABLE DIFFERENCE |
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The smallest difference in sensation that can be noticed. |
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POINT OF SUBJECTIVE EQUALITY |
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The point at which a comparison stimulus is judged to be equal to the standard stimulus. |
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Very small electrode used in single cell recording |
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Stresses the importance of natural, innate abilities |
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| Used to respond to things |
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| Contains the DNA, control center |
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| Branch-like processes coming off the cell body; they receive information from other neurons and transmitt |
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| The area coming off the cell body, it's a puffy area; The action potential originates here |
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| The tail area, branch-like and comes off the soma; it carries electrical signal from one neuron to the next |
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| Wraps around the axon; it serves as an electrical insulator that speeds nerve impulses to muscles and other effects |
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| Neurons with mylion sheath; the firing off here is relatively fast |
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| twig-like structures at the end of the axon that terminates with specialized ending that releases neurotransmitters |
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| A small gap in the mylin sheath |
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| Knobs at the end of the telodendria; it contains chemicals called neurotransmitters substances which is released when the impulses jump |
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| Takes information from the stimulus to the central nervous system |
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| How the body responds to the stimuli given |
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| The outside covering of the brain and it's ridges. It's the thickest and biggest part of the brain |
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| How the body responds to the stimuli given |
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| Encases and protects the brain while giving nourishment |
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| The top/upper part of the brain; gray matter |
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| Valleys and grooves of the cerebrum |
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| Sense of smell, movement, speech, reasoning |
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| Top of the brain; touch, temperature, pain, pressure |
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| Sides of the brain; hearing,language functions, taste |
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| The back region of the cerebral cortex; controls vision |
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| Controls balance and movement |
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| Area on the post synaptic neuron that's sensitive to a particular neurotransmitter |
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| Area around the receptive surface that when stimulated caused the neuron to fire off |
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| Prevents neuronal transmitters; the "don't respond" function |
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| The chemistry of the neuron changes and initiates the firing of the neuron |
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| Sodium and Potassium Ions |
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| Moves in and out of the neuron |
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| Neuron resting state waiting for something to happen |
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| Action Potential (in action) |
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| When the membrane changes to let ions rush in the voltage increases and the sodium and potassium ion fires |
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| Membrane lets only certain things in and out |
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| The malleability of the nervous system, it's capable of changing |
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| Processing that's occurring in the nervous system |
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| A thick band of tissue that connects the cerebral hemispheres and allows neurotransmission from one hemisphere to the next |
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| Crack in the middle of the brain hemispheres |
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| Two hemispheres are structurally similar, but functionally differenct |
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| If one area of the hemisphere is damaged, often another part of the brain will take over |
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| The largest organ of the body |
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| One of the types of skin; the skin that lines the orfices (inner parts of the body) |
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| Type of skin and has the least amount; skin that's at the juncture of the mucus membrane and other kinds of skin |
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| type of skin; the non-hairy skin; palms and sides of the feet |
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| -type of skin; hairy and external skin with skin cells |
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| Layer of the skin that can be seen; has 5 layers |
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| The deepest layer of the epidermal skin; melanin producing cells amount is genetic and increases with sun exposure |
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A: penetrates slowly and causes things like sunburn and skin cancer
B: immediate intense damage |
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| Damages the epidermal layer and is temporary; not severe |
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| Penetrates the dermal layer and causes loss of the skin function; there is a fluid build up between the epidermal and dermal layers (blisters) |
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| Causes nerve destruction; it has the symptoms of a 2nd degree burn and can cause death |
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| Dead skin cells from epidermis that turns into protein; kereainization water proofs and insulates the skin if well treated |
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| Epidermal cells that have been keretonized to the extreme; the gro from the white crescent which is referred to as the Lunula |
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| Arranged into elastic fibers; the arrangement is called Lines of Zahn which is different according to the location on the body |
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