COGPYQLFYNG Flashcards
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NEUROTRANSMITTERS
- makes you feel good
- movement, attention and learning
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Dopamine
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NEUROTRANSMITTERS
- arousal, sleep, dreaming, and happiness
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Serotonin
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NEUROTRANSMITTERS
- alertness, fight or flight response
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Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
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MAJOR DIVISIONS OF THE BRAIN
- also known as prosencephalon
- sensory, reasoning and problem solving
- largest part of the brain
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Forebrain
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MAJOR DIVISIONS OF THE BRAIN
- regulate movement
- process auditory and visual info
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Midbrain
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MAJOR DIVISIONS OF THE BRAIN
- located at the lower back of the brain
- coordinate functions fundamental to survival
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Hindbrain
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LOBES OF THE BRAIN
- reasoning, problem solving and judgement
- motor process and higher thought process
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Frontal Lobe
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LOBES OF THE BRAIN
- Auditory processing
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Temporal Lobe-
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LOBES OF THE BRAIN
- touching, pain and temperature
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Parietal lobe
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LOBES OF THE BRAIN
- visual processing
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Occipital Lobe
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- are specialized neurons that respond to specific types of stimuli (when ___ information is detected by this sensation has occurred)
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Sensory receptors
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- the interpretation of the collected information through our senses
- ex: smelling something that reminds you of your childhood
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Perception
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- answers the questions “what am I seeing?”
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Bottom-up processing
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- answers the questions, “Is that something I’ve seen before?”
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Top-down processing
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- failure to notice because of lack of attention
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Inattentional blindness
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- the signal is what you are trying to detect
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Signal detection theory
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- false perception
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Illusions
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- researches investigates the psychological process in terms of using language
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Psycholinguistics
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- scientific study of language
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Linguistics
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- the techniques in these are used to study disorder problems in language
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Neurolinguistics
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- smallest unit of speech sound
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Phoneme
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- How to produce or combine speech sounds
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Phonetics
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- smallest unit of language within a meaning
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Morpheme
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- Study of meaning in a language
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Semantics
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- the sound of the language are heard, interpreted and understood
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Speech perception
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- The actual meaning
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Denotation
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- other explicit meanings
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Connotation
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STAGES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
- “oohh” “ahhh”
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Cooing