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| French philosopher who argued that the body and mind are different things, a theory that outlined the problem of dualism. |
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| A surgeon whose observations of brain damaged patients led him to concluded that, unlike Descartes' ideas, the mind is grounded in the material of the brain. |
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| Essentially the father of the field of psychology, he conducted some of the first classes in physiological psychology and wrote books about it. He focused on analyzing conciousness through an approach called structuralism. |
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| The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind. |
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| The subjective observation of one's own experience. |
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| The study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment. |
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| Set up the first psychology research laboratory in North America at Johns Hopkins, founded the American Journal of Psychology and served as the first president of the APA. A strong advocate of functionalism. |
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| A psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts. |
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| bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness. |
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| an extension of the spinal cord into the skull that coordinates heart rate, circulation, and respiration. |
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| small cluster inside the medulla that regulates sleep, wakefulness, and levels of arousal. |
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| a large structure of the hindbrain that controls fine motor skills. |
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| the structure that relays info from the cerebellum to the rest of the brain |
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| orients an organism in the environment |
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| involved in movement and arousal. dopamine and serotonin are plentiful in this area |
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| relays and filters info from the senses and transmits the information to the cerebral cortex |
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| regulates body temperature,blood sugar levels, hunger, thirst and sexual behavior, mostly through release of hormones. |
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| relaeses hormones that direct the functions of many other glnds in the body. COntrols stress (ACTH which then stimulates adrenaline), digestive activities and reproductive processes. |
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| a group of forebrain structures including the hypothathalamus, the amygdala, and th hippocampus, whic are involved in motivation, emotion, learning and memory. |
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| critical for creating new memories and integrating them into a network of knowledge so that they can be stored indefinitely in other parts of the cerebral cortex. In charge of short term memory |
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| plays a central role in many emotional processes, particularly the formation of emotional memories. Attaches significance to previously neutral events. When we are in emotionally arousing situations, the amygdala stimulates the hippocampus to remember many details surrounding the situation. |
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| set of subcortcal structures that directs intentional movements. Receives input form the cerbrl cortex and sends outputs to the motor center in th brain stem. |
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| each side of the brain receives and transmits signals from and to the opposite side of your body. |
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| processing info about touch. contains the somatosensory cortex. |
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| resposible for hearing and language.Primary auditory cortex receives sensory info from the ears and then secondary areas of the temporal lobe process the info to meaningful units. Also identifies complex visual objects. |
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| has specialized areas fro movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory and judgement. Contains motor cortex and areas that help us manipulate info and retrieve memories. Sets us apart from most other species. |
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| neurons that help provide sense and meaning to info registered in the cortex. They allow for brain plasticity. |
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| inability to recognize faces. Damage to the fusiform gyrus. |
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| travels across the occipital lobe into the lower levels of the temporal lobe and includes brain areas that represent an objects shape and identity...what it is. |
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| travels up from the occipital lobe to the parietal lobe, connecting with brain areas that identify the location and motion of an object...where it is. |
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| inability to recognize objects by sight |
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