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07/01/2011

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Neuron & its function
Definition

An individual nerve cell

 Accompained by glial cells, type of cells tht support neurons in a a variety of ways.

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Neuron & function
Definition

Dendrits- receive messages from other neurons.

Soma- the same, sends messages to its own nerve implules.

Axon- Messages come from the soma

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Another name for neuron impulse
Definition
Action potential
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Space do neurons communicate with each other
Definition
Negative after-potential
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Subparts of Nervous system & explain the function of each
Definition

Central nervous system- Brain & Spinal cord

Peripheral nervous system- Carries information to and from the CNS

Somatic nervous system- Sense organs & Skeletal muscles

Autonomic nervous system- Serves the internal organs and glands

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All the techniques used to map/view the brain
Definition

Central nervous system- brain & spinal cord

Peripheral nervous- somatic & Autonomic system

Autonomic system- Sympathetic & Parasympathetic system

 

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Function of each Cerebral hemisphere
Definition

Called the Corpus callosum

the left side controls the right side

the right side controls the left side

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Know the forebrain, midbrain, & hindbrain
Definition

Forebrain - Swnsory messaes on their way to the cortex

Hindbrain- Brainstem reflex control of  heart rate, breathing, swallowing, like

Midbrain- conduction and swiching center

 

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Nutrure
Definition
The sum of all external conditions
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Which one is more important

nature or nurture?

Definition
Nurture
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What is DNA
Definition
Deoxyribonucleic acid
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What are genes and Located?
Definition

They are mall segment that affect a particular process or personal characteriatic

Located in the womb to the tomb

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Dominant & Recessive genes
Definition

Dominant- controls will appear everytime the gene is present

Recessive- must be paired with a second recessive gene

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Blooming & pruning refers to what?
Definition
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Congential problems & Genetic disorders
Definition

Congential problems- problems or defects during prenatat development in the womb.

Gentic disorders- problems that are inherited characteristics

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Piaget
Definition
intellect grows through processes that he called assiilation and accommodation
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Erikson
Definition
Is a conflict between pesonal impulses and the social world
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Vygotsky
Definition
Scaffolding- a framework or temporary support to solve problems
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Kubler-Ross
Definition

She was a thanatologist who studies death.

She put it in five different stages of grief, Denial and isolation, anger, bargainng, deression, and acceptance.

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Sensosry adaptation
Definition

Flow of sensation to the brain

thinking of walking into the house

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Data reduction system
Definition
Occurs because the sensory receptors do not transduce all of the energies
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Selective Attention
Definition
 Giving priority to a particular incoming sensory message
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Five taste qualities
Definition
sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and umami
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What is phantom limb pain?
Definition
Including pain for months or years after losing a limb. Because the limb feels real to the person
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What is sea sickness?
Definition
Term
Somethsetoc senses
Definition
Sensations produced by the skin, muscles, joints, viscera, and organs of balance
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Skin senses
Definition
The senses of touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold
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Kinestetic senses
Definition
Senses of body movement and positioning
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Gate control theory
Definition
Proposes that pain messages pass through nerual "gates" in the spinal cord
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Bottom-up processing
Definition
Organizing preception by beginning with low-level features
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Top-down processing
Definition
Applying higher-level knoledge to rpidly organize sensory information into a meaningful preception
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Size constancy
Definition
The preceved size of an object remains constant, despite changes in its retinal image
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Shape constancy
Definition
The preceived shape of an object is unaffected by change in itrs retinal image
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Brightness constancy
Definition
The apparent brightness of objects remains the same as long as they are illuminated by the same amount of light
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Pschology

 

 

 

 

 

Definition
The study of behavior and mental process
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General goals
Definition
What every you put you mind to do anything.
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Overt And Convert behaviors
Definition

Directly observable actions & responses

Private, Internal activities such as thinking, dreaming, remembering, mental events

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Empirical in psycholoical research
Definition
grathering information gained from direct observation
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Types of reseach specialties
Definition
Comparative psychologitst, Cognitive , Biopsychologist, gender, social, Evolutionary, Cultural, Forensic
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Goals for psychyology
Definition
Decription, Understanding, Prediction, Control
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Pseudopsychology
Definition

Seeks evidence that appears to confirm their beliefs and avoid evidence that contradicts them.

Personality trait, shape of your skull

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Why does pseudopsychology & astrology seem to work?
Definition

Astrology holds the positons of stars & planets

Pseudopsychologies appearance of sciece but are actually false.

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Underlying assumption of behaviorism & why?
Definition

The study of observable behavior.

Overstatement .

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Underlying assumption of Gestalt psychology?
Definition
They studied thinking, learning, and preception
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What is a neuron & its function?
Definition

An indiavidual nerve cell

 

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