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| Brain/neurons (malfunction/chemical imbalance) |
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| childhood/freud/unconscious desire |
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Conditioning/pavlov's dog
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| how response/actions aided ancestors survival/evolution of a disease |
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| study of behavior and thought processes |
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-irrefutable claims
-testimonials
-illusory correlation
-extraordinary claims
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1.Form Hypothesis
2.Design Study and Collect Data
3.Analyze Data and Draw Conclusions
4.Report Findings |
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| a self-correcting process for asking questions and observing natures anwers |
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| to observe and record behavior- i.e. case studies, surveys, (provides most natural setting (most realistic)) |
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| to explore the cause and effect by manipulating one or more factor (most controlled, best for determining cause and effect) |
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| used to explain otherwise unusual patterns in everyday life |
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| watching people, animals, or objects |
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| an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hopes of revealing universal principles |
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| a technique for asserting the self reporting attitudes of a group |
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| studies done to show the positive or negative relationship between two factors |
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| assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance in order to minimize differences |
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| Strong correlation coefficient |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| everything else (somatic, autonomic) |
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| voluntary muscle movement |
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| controls involuntary movement, glands |
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| Sympathetic Nervous System |
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| arouses and expends energy (fight or flight/adrenaline) |
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| Parasympathetic Nervous System |
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| conserves energy (hypothermia) |
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| hold everything together (glue) |
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| carry info from sensory receptors to brain and spinal cord |
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| carry info from brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands |
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| within the brain and spinal cord communicate between sensory and motor |
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1. Dendrites receive neurotransmitters
2.Either excitatory or inhibitory
3.If excitatory (agonist) then electrical communication begins
4.If inhibitory (antagonist) the electrical communication does not begin |
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1. Neurons at resting (potential) state
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-cell body lets positive ions in (Na)
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| a neural impulse, brief electrical charge that travels down an axon |
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| level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse |
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| level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse |
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| like guns either fire or no |
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| a state of calm before action occurs |
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| stimulates muscle contractions; involved in memory, learning and intellectual functioning; disorder= Alzheimer's (deficiency) |
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| involved in sleep, mood, emotional states; disorder= insomnia (deficiency) |
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| involved in movement, attention, learning, pleasurable sensations; disorder= parkinson's (deficiency) |
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| offsets excitatory messages, regulate sleep cycle; disorder= insomnia, seizures, tremors (deficiency) sleeping (lots of) eating disorder (excess) |
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| increases heartbeat, arousal, learning and memory; disorder= depression (deficiency) anxiety (excess) |
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| pain relief, positive emotion; disorder= pain (deficiency) inadequate pain warning (excess) |
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| positron emission tomography; a visual display of brain activity that detects radioactive glucose |
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| MRI- magnetic resonance imaging |
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| computer generated images of brain anatomy |
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| Electroencephalograph-EEG |
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| amplified recording of waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface |
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| medulla, pons, cerebellum, reticular formation |
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| relay station, substatia nigra |
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| limbic system, cerebral cortex, corpus callosum |
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| coordinates and integrates movement |
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| controls sleep and alertness |
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| motor control, produces dopamine |
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emotions and drives; Hippocampus-memory, amygdala-emotions, anger fear, hypothalamus-homeostasis,
thalamus- relay station |
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| covers the cerebral hemispheres, ultimate control and info processing |
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| carries messages between the two brain hemispheres |
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| receives right side information, controls, right side, brocca's area, wernicke's area, speech language, reading, writing, math |
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| Right Cerebral Hemisphere |
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| receives left side information, controls left side, emotion, spatial skills, facial recognition, big picture |
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| Frontal lobe specialized areas |
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| motor cortex ( voluntary movement), Broca's area (speech production) |
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| Temporal lobe specialized area |
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Wernicke's area (understanding speech) primary auditory cortex
Wernicke's area (understanding speech) primary auditory cortex (hearing) |
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| parietal lobe specialized area |
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| somatsensory cortex (body sense out put) |
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| occipital lobe specialized cortex |
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| primary visual cortex (sight) |
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| If corpus callosum severed = |
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| two separate brains running two separate information system |
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