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Sensory nerves- carry information about the external environment to
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Motor nerves- carry information from the brain and spine to other parts of the body.
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Interconnected groups of nerve cells that integrate sensory input and motor output
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| Peripheral nervous system |
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| The network of nerves that connects the brain and spinal cord to the other parts of the body. Somatic & autonomic connect |
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Sensory nerves whose function is to convey information from the skin and muscles to the CNS [ pain, temp ]
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Takes messages to and from the body’s internal organs monitoring such process as breathing heart rate and digestion.
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| Sympathetic nervous system |
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| Arouses the body to mobilize it for ation and thus is involved in the experience of stress |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system |
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| The body’s response to stressors |
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| Nerve cells that handle the information-processing function. |
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Provide support nutritional benefits and other functions in the nervous system.
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| Contain the nucleus, which directs the manufacturer of substances that the neuron needs for growth and maintenance. |
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Treelike fibers projecting from a neuron, receive information and orient it towards the neuron's cell body
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| Part of the neurons that carries information away from the cell body towards other cells. |
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Consisting of a layer containing fat, encases and insulates most axons
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The stable, negative charge of an inactive neuron |
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Describes the brief wave of positive electrical charge that sweeps down the axon
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When electrical impulse reaches a certain level of intensity, called its threshold, it fires and moves all the way down the axon without losing any of its intensity
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Tiny spaces between neurons
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| Chemical stores in very tiny synaptic vacs |
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A drug that mimics or increases a neurotransmitter’s effects
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| A drug that blocks a neurotransmitter’s effects |
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| Part the forebrain and is the most recently developed part of the brain in the evolutionary scheme |
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| Is the outermost part the cerebral cortex |
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Located at back of the head respond the visual stimuli
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Located at the top and towards the rear of the head, are involved in registering spatial location, attention and motor control
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| The part of the cerebral cortex just above the earsm involved in hearing language processing and memory |
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The portion of the cerebral cortex behind the forehead are involved in personality, intelligence, and the control of voluntary muscles |
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Scientific study of all the behaviors (beh) and mental process.
Science→ Using systematic methods to observe human behavior and draw conclusions.
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| Everything we do that can be directly observed. |
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| Thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experience privately but that cannot be observed directly. |
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| The process of thinking deeply and actively, asking questions and evaluating the evidence. |
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| Involves gaining knowledge by observing events, collecting data and reasoning logically. |
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| Focus on identifying the element parts of structures of the human mind |
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Focus on the body, especially the brain and the nervous system
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| Study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants. [ Visible Beh ] |
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| Unconscious thought, the conflict between biological drives [ Sex ] and society’s demands, & early childhood family experiences. |
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| Person’s positive qualities, the capacity for positive growth, and the freedom to choose one’s destiny. |
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The mental process involved in knowing how we direct our attention , perceive, remember, think and solve problems.
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| Uses evolutionary ideas such as adaptation, reproduction and natural selection the basis for explaining specific human behaviors |
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| Examines the influences of social and cultural environments on behavior. |
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| Broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations |
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Testable prediction that derives logically from a theory
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| An objective description of how variables is going to measured and observed in a particular study. |
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| Case Study or Case History |
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| Relationships between variables, and its purpose to examine whether one of the variables increases, what happens to the other? |
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Observing and measuring the same variables periodically over time.
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A carefully regulated procedure in which the research manipulate one or more variables that are believed to influence some other variable.
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| Researchers assign participants to groups by chance. |
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| Manipulated experiment factor. |
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| Person who is given a role to play in a study so the social context can be manipulated. |
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The outcome- the factor that changes in an experiment.
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Consists of the participants in an experiment who receive the treatment that is of interest to the researcher. changes
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| In an experiment as much as the like the experimental group as possible is treated in every way like the experimental group except for the change |
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| Subset of the population chosen by the investigator for the study |
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| The entire group from which the investigator wants to draw conclusions |
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Gives every member of the population an equal chance of being selected
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| Observation of behavior in a natural setting |
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