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1
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Most valued on the lower end

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Positive skew

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Most values on the higher end

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Negative skew

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Memory formation/explicit/declarative/episodic memory

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Hippocampus

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Hunger/thirst/endocrine processes, pituary gland

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Hypothalamus

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Taste aversion experiment, rats biologically predisposed

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Garcia Effect

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Extrinsic rewards decrease intrinsic interest in tasks

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Overjustification

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Neurons stop firing because of constant stimulation

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Sensory Adaptation

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Ignoring a stimulus, brain stops responding to it

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Habituation

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Depolarized (+ in); neural impulse firing

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Action Potential

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Polarized (-) not firing

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Resting Potential

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Received messages from other neurons

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Dendrites

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Scan: blood and oxygen flow to active parts/glucose metabolism — show function, brain activity at higher resolution than PET

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fMRI

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Electrodes placed on brain to measure brain wave patterns and activity

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EEG

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter, helps calm nervous activity

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GABA

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Excitatory neurotransmitter, excess results in migraines

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Glutamate

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Functions, memory, movement, learning, deficit causes Alzheimer’s

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Acetylcholine

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Paradoxical sleep/rapid eye movement, dreams, rapid breathing, heart rate, brain waves — awake mode, less to more

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REM sleep

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Hypagogic sensations

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NREM1

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Spindles/K complexes

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NREM 2

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Deepest sleep/night terrors

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NREM3

21
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Under production causes Parkinson’s, Over production causes schizophrenia

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Dopamine

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Lobe for seeing

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Occipital Lobe

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Lobe for hearing

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Temporal Lobe

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Somatosensory cortex/touch and pain

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Parietal Lobe

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Executive functioning/planning higher level/emotional control

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Frontal Lobes

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Study across age groups, short period of time

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Cross-sectional study

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Study of one group over a long period of time

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Longitudinal study

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Fight or flight released by adrenal gland

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Norepinephrine

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Three types of cones: red, blue, and green. A color other than those three triggers a combination of those colors

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Trichromatic theory

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Monitors balance and location and position of the head in the cochlea

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Vestibular system

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Monitors and coordinates position of body parts sent from sensory neurons in joints and muscles

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Kinesthetic sense

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Small nerve fibers send a pain message to the spinal cord and then to the brain. Large nerve fibers block the pain, noiceptors

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Gate control theory of pain

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