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Phrenology

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bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and character traits

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Biopsychology

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The mind thinking about the brain (biology, behavior, mental process)

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Neuroscience

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Focuses on mind and behavior
-biological approach

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Nervous system

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sends messages to the brain for body movement

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Neurons

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Send messages to and from the brain
-RECEIVE, PROCESS & TRANSMIT INFO

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2 primary functions of the nervous system

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-Central nervous system
-Peripheral nervous system

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Sensory/Afferent neuron

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Takes info from the organ to the brain

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Interneurons

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interpret messages

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Motor/Efferent neuron

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reaction messages away from the brain to the muscles, organs, and glands

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Action Potential

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when the neurons fire/go

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recharging period

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when the neuron charges
-neuron can’t fire until fully charged

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resting potential

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neuron has the potential to fire/go

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absolute threshold

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tipping/breaking point before it fires

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all or nothing

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either fires or does not

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depolarization

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aftermath effect of action potential

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synapse

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acts as an electrical insulator, preventing an electrical charge from racing to the next skill

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neurotransmitter

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chemical messenger
-used in natural communicaion

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netural communication

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the chimcals that our bodies produce work as agonist and antagonists

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agonists

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speed up

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antagonists

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slow down/block

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endocrine system

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bodys chemical messengar that relies on hormones

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pututiary gland

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controls all of the responses of the endocrine system and overall growth
-most important gland

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thyroid

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regulate energy level in the body

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adrenal

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help arose the body in time of stress (adrenaline)

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pancreatic
regulate blood sugar in blood (diabetes)
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sex
overies and testes are the glands that influence emotion and physical development
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brain stem
made up of 4 regions -oldest part of the brain
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medulla
egulated body/life-support functions including breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate
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pon
sleep -what happens when you are sleeping -why you don't pee the bed -why you can still breath
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reticulsr
keep brain alert -reactions -damage leads to coma
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thalamus
central processing chip incoming and outgoing sensorys
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cerebellum
coordinaes with motor skills and movemnt we preform without thinking -reading, talking, breathing, walking
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limbic system
give humans capability for emotion and memory -middle layer of brsin that wraps around the thalmus
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hippocampus
memories -process new memory for permanemt storage
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amygdala
fear and anger
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hypothalamus
body thermostate -regulate body temp, fluid levels, and nutrients -body temp, when you get hungry, when you get thirsty
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cerebal cortex
high order thinking and process -covers the brains lower level structure
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frontal lobe
-involves motor cortex -making plans and judgement -just behind forehead
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parietal lobe
processing senses -top of brain
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temporal lobe
involving in auditory (listening)
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occipital lobe
visual functions -back of the brain
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corpus callosum
connects the brain -sometimes cut to prevent seizures
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Broca's area
expressive language, muscle movement, important to speech -located in the left frontal lobe
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Wernicke area
understanding of tone, sound of voice when sad, mad, happy -located in the temporal lobe
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motor cortex
movements -ride side controls left -left side controls right back of the frontal lobe
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somatosesnory
touch
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left hemisphere
regulate positive emotions, control of muscles, used in psych, movement, speaking, and writing memory for words, speech writing, and language
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right hemisphere
regulate negative emotion, respond to simple commands memory for music and shapes, spatial relationships, visual
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longitudinal fissure
divide central cortex into right and left hemisphere
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split brain process
helps people who have a lot of seizure -cutting the brain in two by cutting the corpus callosum
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sensation
stimulated receptor (eyes, ears ) create pattern of natural messages that represent the stimulus in the brain -taking stuff in
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perception
based on personal experiences -how you perceive something
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top down percepion
emphizez that percives expectation, concept memories, and other cognitive factors
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transduction
the sensory process that converts energy such as light or sound waves into natural messages
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sensory adaptation (adjustments)
vody getting use to ie like getting in a cold pool and getting used to the temp
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absolute threshold
maximum level of stimulus necessary for a stimulus to be detected
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just noticable difference (JND)
minimal amount of charge in the signal that is still recognizable
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cornea
protective outer later of eye
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iris
muscle controlling the pupil
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lens
sharpen/focuse vision
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retina
transduction happens in the light senstative layer of cell at back of eye
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photoreceptor
light senor neruon
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rods
sensitive to dim light, not color
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cones
sensitive to color, not dim lights
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fovea
sharpest visual point -most detailed
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optic nerve
carry visual info to brain/memory cortex
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blind spot
point where theres no photoeceptor
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cochea
snail shaped tube
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paralell processing
picking up color, motion, form and depth to recognize something like a bird
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middle ear
transmits the eardrum vibration
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auditory nerve
movement of cells trigger the adjacen bever fibers and connects thalamus to temporal lobe
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sound localization
determine where sound id coming from -which ear hears it first -which ear hears a louder sound
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conduction deafness
inablility to hear, resulting for damage to the structure of the middle or inner ear
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nerve deafness
inablility to hear, linked to a deficint in the body ability to ransmit impulse from the cochela to the brain -sensorinerual deafness
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vestibular sense
sense of body orientation with respect to gravity -balance
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kinesthetic sense
body sense -knowing if your sore or hurt -feedback your body gives you
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umami
saveroy flavor
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taste recepors
damaged from alchol and smoke
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skin senses
pain, warmth, cold, pressure
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gate-control theroy
explanaion for pain contro; saying we have neral gate that can block incoming pain
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extrasensory
ability to gain information by some means other then ordinary senses
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clairvoyance
perceiving objects or info without sensory
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telepathy
involve the reading of someone else thoughts
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precognitive
ability to foretell future events
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psychokinesis
involving moving objects
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feature detectors
specialized cells in the brain that identify specific features (line, curve)
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bottom-up
analyze characteristics -color, line, edge
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top-down
expectation, memory -reading
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perceptual consistency
color, size, shape
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DC Psych Test 1 (4 decks)

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