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1. The Science of Mind and Behavior
2. The Science of Knowing and Behavior
3. The Science of Epistemology
4. The Science of Things that Move Around on their Own. |
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| Wilhelm Wundt funds the first laboratory dedicated to psychology in Germany, separating psychology from philosophy for the first time. |
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| John Broadas Watson declares that to be a science, psychology must only study the observable and thus must be a study of behavior rather than of the mind. |
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| Ulric Neisser publishes his text book called "Cognitive Psychology" which outlined all of the research from the previous decade and lead to its rapid success. |
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| Born with innate ideas; experience provides occasions for knowing. (Hard wired into the brain at birth) |
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| Born as a clean slate; experience is a source of knowledge. |
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| Question - How do rationalists arrive at knowledge? |
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| Answer - Learn by operation of the mind. |
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| Question - How do empiricists arrive at knowledge? |
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| Answer - Learn by connecting experiences to the world. |
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| Definition - Epistemology |
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| Study of knowledge and justified beliefs. |
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| Division of mental and psychical aspects. |
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| Definition - Pineal Gland |
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| Location in the brain that produces melatonin; regulates sleep cycles. |
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| An automatic, stereotyped movement produces as the direct result of a stimuli. |
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| Question - How many Neurons are in your body and how many connections does each one have? |
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| Answer - 10 Billion Neurons with around 10,000 connections each. |
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| Question - What are the four parts of a Neuron? |
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| Answer - Dendrites, Cell Body (Soma), Axon and the Terminal Endings. |
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| Space between the neurons where electrochemical impulses travel to get to the dendrites of the next Neuron. |
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| Definition - Myelon Sheath |
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| Insulates the Axon and causes the action potential to travel down the axon. |
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| Definition - Nodes of Ranvier |
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| Discontinuations in the Myelon Sheath. |
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| Lets Sodium into the Neuron. |
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| Neurotransmitter that is responsible for mood regulation. Depressed people have low levels. |
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| Definition - Disinhibition |
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| Removes source of inhibition which makes the reflex stronger. |
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| Definition - Temporal Summation |
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| Adding up effects or stimuli over a short period of time. |
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| Definition - Central Nervous System |
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| "Center" or Spine and Brain. |
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| Definition - Peripheral Nervous System |
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| "Outside of Center" or Everything else. |
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| Definition - Somatic Nervous System |
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| "Body" or control you have over your body. |
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| Definition - Autonomic Nervous System |
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| "Self-rule" or responses we have no control over. |
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| Definition - Sympathetic Nervous System |
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| Mobilizes for energy (Excited States); Adrenaline. |
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| Definition - Parasympathetic Nervous System |
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| Calm States (resting); conserves energy slows heart rate. |
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| Question - What are the part of the Hind Brain? |
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| Answer - Medulla, Pons, and Cerebellum. |
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| Regulates breathing, heart rate and blood circulation. |
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| Regulates arousal and attention. |
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| Motor control (precision, timing and coordination) but doesn't initiate movement. |
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| Forms movements into actions; controls whole body responses to visual and auditory stimuli. |
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| Sensory and motor relay center. |
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| Definition - Hypothalamus |
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| Controls responses to the basic needs; food, temptations and sex. |
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| Definition - Basal Ganglia |
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| Regulates muscle contractions for smooth movements. |
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| Question - What parts does the Limbic System comprise of? |
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| Answer - Hippocampus and Amygdala. |
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| Responsible for processing memory. |
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| Responsible for processing emotion. |
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| Question - What are the four lobes in the Cerbral Cortex? |
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| Anwser - The lobes are Frontal, Parietal, Occipital and Temporal |
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| Definition - Corpus Collosum |
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| Connects hemispheres of the brain. |
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| Definition - Cerebral Cortex |
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| Definition - Paul Broca's Area |
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| Area of Brain that controls speech. |
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| Definition - Wernicke's Area |
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| Area of brain that helps us understand speech. |
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| Definition - Frontal Lobe |
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| Planning, social behavior and motor control. Located at the front of the brain. |
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| Definition - Parietal Lobe |
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| Somatosensory (Sense of touch). Located at the back and top of brain. |
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| Definition - Occipital Lobe |
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| Responsible for Vision. Located at the back of the brain. |
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| Definition - Temporal Lobe |
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| Responsible for hearing and memory. Located on the side of the brain. |
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| Question - What did Wylder Penfield do? |
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| Answer - Discovered the motor cortex and the sensory cortex. |
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| Question - What is the left hemisphere responsible for? |
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| The left hemisphere is responsible for language. |
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| Question - What is the right hemisphere responsible for? |
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| Answer - The right hemisphere is responsible for spatial abilities. |
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| Question - What is the front of the brain responsible for? |
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| Answer - The front of the brain is responsible for expression, action and plans. |
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| Question - What is the back the brain responsible for? |
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| Answer - The back of the brain is responsible for reception and perception. |
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| Definition - Superior Colliculus |
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| Responsible for reflexes and autonomic responses. (Vision) |
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| Definition - Supstantia Nigra |
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| Invovled in eye movement, reward seeking and addiction. |
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| Definition - Brain Plasticity |
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| Neurons adapt and change through experience. |
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| Used for movements. Made in the substantia Nigra. |
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| Right hemisphere damage causes inattention to whole left side. |
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| Left hemisphere damage causes deficit in language functions. |
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| Definition - Expressive Aphasia |
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| Lesion to Broca's area causes an inability to produce speech. |
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| Definition - Receptive Aphasia |
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| Lesion in Wenicker's area causes an inability to understand speech. |
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| Corpus Collasum split so the brain hemispheres cannot communicate. |
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| Inability to recognize objects. |
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| A disorder of the brain and nervous system in which a person is unable to perform tasks or movements when asked, even though: The request or command is understood |
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| Located is in the cerebral cortex outside the primary areas. It is essential for mental functions that are more complex than detecting basic dimensions of sensory stimulation, for which primary sensory areas appear to be necessary. |
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