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| scientific study that aims to solve pratical problems |
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| pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. |
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| intergrated perspective that incorporates biological psychological, and social- cultural levels of analysis. |
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| a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with a psychological disorder |
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| the view that knowlege comes from experience via the senses, and science flourishes through observation and experiment. |
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| a school of psychology that focused on how mental behavioral processes function- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish. |
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| historical significant perspective that emphasize the growth potential of healthy people, used personal method to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. |
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| the differing complementary views , from biological to psychological to social- cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
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| the long standing controversy over the relationtive controbutions that genes and experience make the development of psychological traits and behaviors |
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| a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders |
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| the statement of the procedures used to define reseach variables |
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| a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |
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| a pair of endocrine glands just above the kidneys |
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| a neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also triggers muscle contraction |
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oldest part and central core of the brain
responsible for automatic survival skills |
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| controls languages expression, directs the muscle movements involved in speech |
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| an amplified recording of the waves of electical activity that sweep across the brain surface |
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| a technique that uses magnetic fields and radio wave to produce computer generated images that distinguish amoung different types of soft tissue; allows us to see brain structures withing the brian |
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| a visiual display of brain activity that detects where a radio active form of glucose goes hile the brain performs a given task |
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| controls language reception, a brain area involved in language comprehenson and expression usually in the left temperol lobe |
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| a neural impulse in a breif electrical charge that travels down an axon |
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| two lima bean sized neural clusters that are components of the limbic system and are linked to emotion |
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| areas of the cerebal cortex that are involved in higher mental function |
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| the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the gland and the muscle of the internal organs |
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| a branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior |
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| the brain and spinal cord |
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| the body's sultimate control and info-processing center |
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| functions: processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance |
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| the large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them |
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| the bushy, branching extensions of a neuron that recieve messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body |
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| the body's slow chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the blood stream |
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| a technique for revealing blood flow and therefore, brain acitivity by comparing successive MRI scans |
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| the portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead, invovled in speeaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments |
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| cells in the nervous sutem that supports and protect neurons |
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| chemical messengers mostly those manufactured by the endocrine glands that are produced in one tissue and a affect another |
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| a neural structure lying below the thalamus; it directs several maintenance activities, helps govern the endocrine system, via the pituitary gland and is linked to emotions |
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| central nervous system neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory input and motor output |
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| a doughnut shaped system of neural structures at the border of the brainstem and cerebral hemispheres associated with emotions and drives. |
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| the base of the brainstem; controls heartbeat and breathing |
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| an area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls volunterry movement |
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| layer of fatty tissue segmentally enables vastly greater transmission speed of nerual impulse as the impulse hops from one node to the next |
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| neural cables, containsing many axons |
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| the body's speed, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and CNS. |
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| interconnected neural cells |
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| chemical messangers that traverse the synaptic gaps between neurons |
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| lobes the portion of the cerbral cortex lying at the back of the head; includes the visual areas which recieve visual info from the opposite visual field |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| the division of the autonomic ESP and psychokenesis |
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| recievs sensory input for touch and body position |
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| peripheral nervous system |
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| the sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body |
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| the endocrine system most influential gland |
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| the brain's capacity for modification, as evident in brain reorganization following damge and inexperiments on the experiance of brain development |
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| a simple, automatic inborn response to a sensory stimulus |
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| a nerve network in the brainstem that plays an important role in controlling arousal |
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| the area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations |
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| neurons that carry incoming information from the sense receptors to the CNS |
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| the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles |
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| a condition in which the two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting the connection fibers between them |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| the division of the autonomic nervous sust that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations |
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| the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the recieving neuron |
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| the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears. includes the auditory areas each of which recieves auditory info primarily from the opposite ear |
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| the brian's sensory switctboard, it directs messages to the sensory recieving areas in the cortex and transmitts replies to the cerebelum and medulla |
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| the level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse |
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