Neuron

Question 1

Blind Spot

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Occurs when we allow our emotions/ mood to influence the decisions we make.

Question 2

Positive Correlations

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When one variable increases as the other variable increases (ex. Attractiveness and popularity)

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Negative Correlations

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When a high score on measurement is accompanied by low scores on another variable (ex. weight, low self-esteem)

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Face Blindness

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This is when some people with the condition prosopagnosia may only have difficulty recognizing familiar faces while others may not even able to see faces.

Question 5

Gestalt Principles of Organization

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Principles such as figure-ground relationship, grouping by proximity or similarity, the law of good continuation, and closure are all used to help explain how we organize sensory information.

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Proximity

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How people treat objects close together as a group.

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Rods

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The receptors in the eye which detect movement.

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Cones

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The receptor cells that help us see fine details of things to help us see in situations where there is light or daylight.

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Neuroplasticity

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Can be viewed as a general umbrella term that refers to the brain’s ability to modify, change, and adapt both structure and function throughout life and in response to experience.

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Negative Afterimages

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A sensation of opposing colors occurs after staring at a colored stimulus. (ex. staring at a green piece of paper after a period of time then switching your focus to a white sheet of paper, an after image would appear on the white page)

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Experimental Psychology

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refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes.

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Variable

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A condition in an experiment of a characteristic of an entity, person, or object that can take on different categories, levels, or values and that can be quantified (measured)

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Independent Variable

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The characteristics of an experiment that is manipulated or changed by researchers, not by other variables in the experiment.

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Dependent Variable

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The variable that is being measured or tested in an experiment.

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Control Group

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A comparison group in a study whose members receive either no intervention at all or some established intervention.

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Top-Down Processing

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How do knowledge, expectations, or past experiences shape the interpretation of sensory information?

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SSRI Drug

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Works by preventing your blood from absorbing some of the serotonin from your brain.

Question 18

Limbic System

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The part of the brain involved in our behavioral and emotional responses, especially when it comes to behaviors we need for survival.

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Bottom-Up-Processing

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The process of sensation, whereby the input of sensory information from the external environment is received by our sensory receptors.

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Split Brain Research

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The discovered that the left hemisphere of the brain was responsible for language understanding and articulation, while the right hemisphere could recognize a word, but could not articulate it.

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Scientific Method

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Stating the question, offering a theory, and then constructing rigorous laboratory or field experiments to test the hypothesis.

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Lobes Of the Brain

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Frontal, Parietal, Temporal and Occipital

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Frontal Lobe

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Are important for voluntary movement, expressive language, and managing higher-level executive functions.

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Parietal Lobe

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Responsible for processing somatosensory information from the body.

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Occipital Lobe

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Responsible for visual perception, including color, form, and motion.

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Temporal Lobe

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Processing auditory information and the encoding of memory.

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Cerebellum

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Helps Coordinate and regulate a wide range of functions and processed in both your brain and body.

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Brain Stem

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Responsible for regulating most of the body’s automatic functions that are essential for life.

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Neuron

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Are Information messengers, they use electrical impulses and chemical signals to transmit information between different areas of the brain, and between the brain and the rest of the nervous system.

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Psychology Specialization

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Helps psychologists focus on behaviors and causes that affect mental health and develop treatment and counseling plans for patients.

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Naturalistic Observation

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A method that involves observing subjects in their natural environment.

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Major Divisions of the Nervous system

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The central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system is made up of nerves that branch off from the spinal cord and extend to all parts of the body.

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Somatic Nervous System

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The nerves in this system deliver information from your senses to your brain and also carry commands from your brain to your muscles so you can move around.

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Automatic Nervous System

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A component of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary physiologic processes including heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, digestion, and sexual arousal.

Question 35

Ear Structures and Functions

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Is the organ of hearing and balance, it consists of a cavity in the skull structure lined with soft tissue, which encloses three distinctive spaces filled with air or liquid (external, middle, and inner ear) these distinctive spaces host both sound transmission mechanisms and sensory apparatuses.

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Importance Of Synapse

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Are essential to the transmission of nervous impulses from one neuron to another

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Retina

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A layer of photoreceptors cells and glial cells within the eye captures incoming photons and transmits them along neuronal pathways as both electrical and chemical signals for the brain to perceive a visual picture.

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Reptuake

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The reabsorption by a neuron of a neurotransmitter following the transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse.

Question 39

Bipolar/Ganglion cells

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Are two types of nerve cells in the retina. Bipolar cells transfer visual information to ganglion cells in the retina. Signals must pass through the bipolar cells to reach the ganglion cells. because of bipolar cells and ganglion cells, we are able to see things from our eyes.

Question 40

Neurotransmitters

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A chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, muscle fiber, or some other structure.

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Visual Processing

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The way the brain processes visual information and this includes all information from a child’s reading, computer, sports, facial cues, and social interactions.

Question 42

Acetylcholine

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A type of chemical messenger, or neurotransmitter, plays a vital role in the central and peripheral nervous system. it is also important for muscle control, automatic body functions, and in learning. memory, and attention.

Question 43

Inhibitory Neurotransmitters

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Block or prevent the chemical message from being passed along any farther, GABA, Glycine and serotonin are examples of inhibitory neurotransmitters.

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Mirror Neurons

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A type of brain cell that respond equally when we perform an action and when we witness someone else perform the same action

Question 45

Excitatory Message

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“excite” the neuron and cause it to “fire off the message” meaning, the message continues to be passed along to the next cell.