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Intro to Psych Unit 1 pt 2 Flashcards

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pons (brain stem)

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involved in sleeping, waking, dreaming and more

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medulla

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responsible for certain autonomic functions
(ex breathing)

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reticular activating system

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arouses higher centers when something happens and demands attention

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cerebellum (lesser brain)

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regulates balance and movement
-if damaged, no coordination
-involved in classical conditioning and remembering simple skills
-assists in perceptual processes, working memory, speech, and language

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thalamus

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relays sensory messages to cerebral cortex
directs sensory mesages to higher areas in charge of vision, sound, and touch

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hypothalamus

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involved in emotions and drives vital to survival
-regulates autonomic nervous system
-keeps body in homeostasis
-regulates temperature

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pituitary gland

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-endocrine gland
-secretes hormones
-the supervisor of the body
-reports to the hypothalamus

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amygdala

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evaluates sensory info
-contributes to the decision to run or approach
-works with higher brain area to regulate response
-works with anxiety and depression
-retrieves emotional memories

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hippocampus

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-key in forming new memories
-combining experiences to create one memory

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cerebrum

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in charge of most sensory, motor, and cognitive process
-two separate halves (cerebral hemisphere)

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right hemisphere

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in charge of the left side of the body

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left hemisphere

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in charge of the right side of the body

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cerebral cortex

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largely responsible for higher mental functions (sensation, memory, thought, and association)
-fissures divided in to 4 regions

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occipital lobe

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lower back of brain
-receives visual info
-signals are processed

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parietal lobe

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top of the brain
-contains somatosensory cortex
-recieves info on pressure, pain, touch and temp
-handless attention and awareness of spatial relationships

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temporal lobes

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on the sides of the brain
-contain areas involved in hearing, emotion, memory, visual processing and language comprehension

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frontal lobes

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front of the brain
-contains areas involed in movement, working memory, controlling emotions and impulses (making plans, creative thinking, empathizing with others)

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prefrontal cortex

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-involved with reasoning, decision making, personality

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visual pathways

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each hemisphere receives info about the opposite side of the visual field
(right and left)

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sensation

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how do our senses take in and absorb info

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perception

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how does our brain organize and interpret said info

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typical senses

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sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch

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skin senses

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hot and cold, pain

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ear sense

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balance

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skeletal muscles sense

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movement

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sense receptors

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convert physical energy into electrical energy
-transmitted as nerve impulses to the brain

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absolute threshold

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smallest amount of energy detected reliably
-flashes of light in a dark room

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difference threshold

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smallest amount by which two stimuli can differ in order for someone to perceive them as different
-cookies vs brownies

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inattentional blindness

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failure to consciously register things that we are looking at due to not paying attention

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sensory adaptation

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sensation fades, receptors fire less
-filters our unimportant info

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sensory deprivation

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absences of normal levels of sensory stimulation (too much is bad)

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sensory overload

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too much sensory info at once
-noticing everything at once

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selective attention

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focusing on some parts and blocking out others

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stimulus for vision

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light
-reflected off items in environment

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psychological dimensions of visual world

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hue, brightness, and saturation

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hue: color names

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related to wavelength of light (distance between crests of light wave)

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shorter waves

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violet and blue

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longer waves

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red and orange

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combo of all wave lengths

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white

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brightness: lightness

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amount (intensity) of the light an object emits or reflects
-corresponds to minimum height (amplitude) of wave

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short wavelength

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high frequency (blueish)

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long wavelength

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low frequency (reddish)

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great amplitude

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bright colors

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small amplitude

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dull colors

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saturation: colorfulness

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how rich a color is
-purity of light
-complexity of light

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one wavelength

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pure and rich looking

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black

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unsaturated because no color

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white

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all wavelengths, still unsaturated

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retina (visual receptors)

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location of visual receptors, back of the eye

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rods (visual receptors)

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visual receptors that respond to dim light

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cones (visual receptors)

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visual receptors involved in color vision

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dark adaptation (visual receptors)

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sensitive to dim light

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ganglion cells

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gathers info from receptor ells through bipolar cells

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trichromatic theory

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1st level of color processing
-3 types of cones (blue, green, red)
-color blindness and color defiant

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opponent process theory

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2nd stage of color processing
-occurs in ganglion cells in retina and neurons in thalamus and visual cortex
-cells respond to short wavelengths and inhibited from firing by long wavelengths or vice versa

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net result

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color code passed to higher visual cneters

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negative afterimage

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op cells inhibited by one color produce burst of firing when color is removed or vice versa

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gestalt

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“the whole is more than the sum of it’s parts”
-characteristics emerge from the whole that are not found in individual pieces

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proximity

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things near each other other are grouped together

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closure

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brain fills in gaps to perceive complete forms

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similarity

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things that are alike in some way are perceived as belong together

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continuity

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lines and patterns perceived as continuing in time and space

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