October Midterm Flashcards

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Who is John B. Watson

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  • founded behaviourism

- believed that humans are products of learning

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Who is Sigmund Freud

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  • pioneered psychoanalysis
  • trained as a medical doctor
  • was trying to understand “hysteria”
  • determined that they must be psycholgical
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Who is William James

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  • founded second psychology lab
  • wrote first textbook
  • wrote a lot about behaviour
  • was a functionalist
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Who is Wilhelm Wundt

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  • Father of psychology
  • started giving out degrees in psychology
  • first psychological lab
  • was structuralist
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What is Cognitive Perspective

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  • examines mental processes

- Gestalt Psychology: based on idea that the mind perceives things as a whole rather than in parts

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What is Biological Perspective

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  • examines how brain processes and other bodily functions regulate behaviour
  • Sociobiology: social behaviours are the products of evolution, as they better allow the passing of genes (aggression, competition, nurturing)
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What is Sociocultural Perspective

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  • examines how social environment affects behaviour, thoughts, feelings
  • Cultural Psychology: examines how culture (values, beliefs, behaviour, traditions) are passed on
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What is Humanistic Perspective

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  • pioneered by Carl Rogers
  • focus on values and choice
  • helps people “fulfill their full potential”
  • came up with the idea of “self conception”
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What is Psychodynamic Perspective

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  • was pioneered by Freud
  • studies behaviour within the inner working of the mind
    emphasizes unconscious processes
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What is Behaviourism Perspective

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  • forget the “mind”, focus on actual observable behaviour
  • discuss how behaviour changes under various conditions
  • focus on external environment
  • Law of effect: learning us key to how experiences shapes behavior
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What are the 6 Modern Psychological Perspectives

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  1. Behaviourism
  2. Psychodynamic
  3. Humanistic
  4. Sociocultural
  5. Biological
  6. Cognitive
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Structuralism Vs. Functionalism

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Structuralism
- analysis of the brains basic structure in terms of basic elements

Functionalism
- study of functions of consciousness rather than structure. how do mental processes help us adapt.

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What is British Empiricism

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all ideas and knowledge are gained through the senses

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What is Monism

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Mental events corresponds to physical events in the brain. This philosophy allows us to learn about the mind by studying the brain

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What is Mind-Body Dualism

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When you believe the mind is a spiritual entity separate from the body. Impossible to learn about the mind from the brain if you believe this.

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3 levels of psychology

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  1. Biological
  2. Psychological
  3. Environmental/Cultural
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what are the psychology goals

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  • Describe how people behave
  • Explain causes of behaviour
  • Predict how people will behave
  • Influence behaviour to enhance human welfare
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2 kinds of experimental psych w/ definitions

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  1. Cognitive Psychology
    - mental processes, mind as info processor
  2. Biopsychology
    - the effect of genes & hormones on behaviour
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what is personality psych

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identify core personality traits and how they relate and influence behaviour

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what is developmental psych

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study of human physical, physiological and social development across a lifespan

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what is social psych

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  • peoples influence on each other
  • behaviour in groups
  • impressions, love, predjudice
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what is industrial-organizational psych

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leadership, teamwork, satisfaction motivation and performance

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what is experimental psychology

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study of learning, senses, perception and motivation through experiments… opposite of Clinical Psychology

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what is educational psych

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how do ppl learn and how can they be helped

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What is Clinical Psychology

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The study and treatment of mental disorders

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What is Psychology

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The study of behaviour and the mind

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Who is Thorndike

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  • discovered that organisms learn through the consequences of their actions (law of effect)
  • behaviourist
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Who is Ivan Pavlov

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  • Medical researcher
  • realized that dogs salivate before food is shown to them because they learn to associate him with food
  • discovered “Classical Conditioning”
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Who is Skinner

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  • says learning is about punishment and reward
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Who is Piaget

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  • studied how kids develop intelligence
  • said kids don’t think like adults
  • Piagetian Theory is named after him
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Who is Carl Rogers

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  • humanistic

- created Rogerian therapy

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What is the Scientific Process

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  1. Identify
  2. Gather
  3. Test
  4. Analyze
  5. Build
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What is Naturalistic Observation

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observe behaviour in a natural setting, attempting to avoid influencing behaviour

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What is a Case Study

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in-depth study of one individual, group, or event

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What are some survey methods and what do they do

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Population: all individuals we are interested in

Sample: subset drawn from the larger population

Representative Sample: reflects important characteristics of population

Stratified Random Sampling: if 45% of the population is male, then 45% of random sample spaces would be for males

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What is a Bidirectionality Problem

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does “X” cause “Y” OR does “Y” cause “X”… Maybe they both influence eachother

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Meaning of Control between subjects

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Control and experimental groups are separate people

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What is Double-Blind

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When neither subject nor tester know which experimental condition the subject is under (this is the gold standard)

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What is Meta-analysis

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Statistically combining the results of different studies ti examine their overall significance

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What is incomplete disclosure

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Not telling subject what you are actually testing them about

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What do dendrites do

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Collect messages from other neurons and send them to the cell body

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What do the Axons do

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Sends electrical impulses to other neurons, muscles, glands. They generate “action potential”

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What do the Glial Cells do

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Hold neurons in place, make food for neurons, absorb toxins

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What is the function of the Cell Body

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Biochemical structures that keep the neuron alive, carries genetic info

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What is the Myelin Sheath

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Insulation layer derived from glial cells that cover some axons. Makes action potential travel down the axon faster. Broken up into nodes of ranvier

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What do neurons communicate through

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Action potentials

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What is resting potential

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When there is no communication happening, the charge inside the neuron is negative and the surrounded by positively charged sodium

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Process of Neuron Communication

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  1. ) Neuron is electrically stimulated
  2. ) Once and only once the threshold of -55mv is reached, the sodium channels open
  3. ) Sodium flows in, depolarizing the neuron
  4. ) Neuron goes through an “absolute refractory period” where it can not be excited until resting potential is restored
  5. ) Sodium channels are closed and the potassium channels are opened. Potassium is also positive and the cell is trying to dump positive charge to restore equilibrium “repolarization”
  6. ) Cell will briefly go below its resting potential. This is called “hyperpolarization”
  7. ) Cell then enters relative refractory period where it is able to fire agian
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What is synapse

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It is the space between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of the connection neuron

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What are Neurotransmitters

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Chemicals that travel across the synapse to excite (EPSP) or inhibit (IPSP) other neurons. Whether they excite or inhibit depends on the neurotransmitter and the receptor receiving it

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What is the Life Cycle of a Neurotransmitter

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  1. ) Formed in the neuron
  2. ) Stored in synaptic vesicles in axon terminals
  3. ) When the action potential comes down axon, they are released into fluid between neurons
  4. ) They then bind to receptor sites of the receiving neuron’s membrane (specific transmitters fit specific receptors)
  5. ) Receiving neuron either;
    - is excited (inflow of positive ions)
    - is hyperpolarized by inhibitor transmitters (outflow of positive ions or inflow of negative ions)
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What is Glutamic Acid

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  • Excitatory

- Involved in all behavior, learning & memory

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What is Dopamine

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  • Motivation, reward, pleasure
  • Voluntary motor control
  • Thought process
  • Not enough is related to Parkinson.s and depression
  • Too much causes schizophrenia
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What is GABA

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  • Inhibitory
    Anxiety & Motor Control
  • Alcohol makes the brain more sensitive to it
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What are Endorphins

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  • Reduce pain, increase well being
  • Bind to same receptors as opiates
  • Act as pain-relievers in severe injury
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What is Acetycholine

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  • Memory & muscle activity
  • Lack of it causes Alzheimer’s
  • Botulism blocks its release from axon, causes paralysis
  • Black Widow venom causes a torrent of it, causing convulsions
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What are Neuromodulators

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  • Circulate brain and decrease/increase sensitivity of neurons
  • Involved in eating/sleep/stress
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What is Norepinephrine

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  • Involved in arousal and eating

- Inhibitory & also excitatory depending on receptor

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What is Serotonin

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  • Mood, eating, sleep, sex
  • Depression & sleep/eating disorders are treated by blocking reuptake, deactivation of serotonin so that it’s effects keep going
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Antagonist VS. Agonist

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Antagonist
- drug that inhibits activity of a neurotransmitter

Agnostic
- drug that increases activity of a neurotransmitter

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What does alcohol do to the body

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  • Stimulates GABA
  • Inhibits glutamic acid
  • Causes slowing of neural activity
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What does Caffeine do to the body

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  • Antagonistic for adenosine, a chemical that inhibits excitatory transmitters (and causes tiredness)
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What does Rohypnol & GHB do to the body

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  • Date rape drugs

- Powerful sedative that enhance GABA

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What does Amphetamines do to the body

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  • Increase dopamine and norepinephrine activity

- Does this by increasing production and preventing reuptake

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What does Nicotine do to the body

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  • Mimics ACh and stimulates dopamine

- The feeling received from dopamine is what causes the addiction

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What does Cocaine do to the body

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  • Stimulates release of dopamine

- Prevents its re-uptake

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What are sensory neurons

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neurons that send messages from sense organs to brain

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What are Interneurons

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The most abundant neurons, have a connective function

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What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

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Neurons that connect muscles, glands, and sensory receptors

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What is the Somatic Nervous System

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  • voluntary movements

- consists of sensory and motor neurons

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What is the Autonomic Nervous System

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  • make up of glands and the involuntary muscles of organs

- also involved in motivation, emotional behavior and stress response

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What are the 2 types of ANS and their functions

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  1. ) Sympathetic Nervous System
    - responsible for “fight-or-flight”
    - Ex. speeds up heart, dilates pupils, increases oxygen
  2. ) Parasympathetic Nervous System
    - slows down body, returns you to rest
    - both work together to maintain “homeostasis”
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What is the CNS

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Central Nervous System and consists of neurons only in brain and spinal cord

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Part function of the spinal cord

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  • nerves enter and leave the CNS through spinal cord

- the vertebrae protects the nerves

75
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What are spinal reflexes

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It is when your body can react to certain situations before the signal even reaches your brain
- Ex.) touching a hot stove

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Components of Hindbrain and their functions

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  1. Medulla
    - right off of spinal cord
    - regulates heart rate, respiration
  2. Pons
    - bridge between the nerve impulses of the higher and lower levels of the nervous system
    - involved in sleep/dreaming
  3. Cerebellum
    - muscular movement coordination, learning & memories
    - regulates movements that require timing
    - alcohol affects this and makes you uncoordinated
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Function of the Midbrain

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  • cluster of sensory & motor neurons, and fibre tracts
  • relay centre for visual/auditory system
  • control eye movements
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What is Reticular Formation

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  • Gatekeeper of the brain
  • Alerts higher brain messages, and decides where to block/allow them
  • Some anesthetics disables the part that sends messages to the higher brain
  • The blocking/allowing function helps you block out distraction
  • Stimulation can produce instant sleep or wakefulness
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Components of the Forebrain (Cerebrum) and their functions

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  1. Thalamus
    - sensory relay station/switchboard
    - from here, sensations go to higher brain regions and for perceptions
  2. Basal Ganglia
    - controls voluntary motor control
    - in Parkinson’s the neurons that supply it with dopamine die
  3. Hypothalamus
    - controls biological drives (sex drive, temperature regulation, hunger, eating, drinking, aggression)
    - controls hormone secretions
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What is the job of the Limbic System

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  • help to satisfy motivation and emotional urges caused by the hypothalamus
  • responsive for goal directed sequences
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Function of the Hippocampus

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  • forms and retrieves memories

- damage can prevent long term memory

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Function of the Amygdala

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  • organizes emotional response patterns (aggression, fear)

- can produce unconscious emotional responses

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Cerebral Cortex consists of what parts

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  • Frontal Lobe
  • Parietal Lobe
  • Occipital Lobe
  • Temporal Lobe
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Components of the Frontal Lobe and their functions

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  1. Motor Cortex
    - each part of it controls a part of body’s voluntary movements
    - right controls left side of body and vice versa
  2. Prefrontal Cortex
    - “executive function” is goal setting and judgement
    - murderers lack this function
  3. Broca’s Area
    - controls speech, motor movements of speech and grammar/word choice
    - damage still lets you understand speech but you cannot speak it yourself
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Function of the Somatic Sensory Cortex in the Parietal Lobe

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  • same thing as motor cortex but regarding touch
  • specific areas are responsible for specific body parts
  • more sensitive areas of the body have more cortex devoted to them (fingers, lips, tongue)
  • sensory cortex learns from experience… If you learn braille, the fingertip portion gets bigger
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Parts and functions of the Occipital Lobe

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  1. Dorsal side
    - sends information about orientation and movement of objects to the parietal lobe
  2. Ventral side
    - sends information about recognition to the temporal lobe
    - cases reported that when damaged people can pick up objects but not recognize what they are
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Component and function of the Temporal Lobe

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Wernicke’s Area

  • responsible for learning comprehension
  • in contrast to Broca’s area on the frontal lobe, which is responsible for language production
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What is the Association Cortex

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  • involved in thought, memory, and perception (highest level mental functions)
  • called “silent areas” because electrical stimulation does not cause experiences.responses
  • this is the source of the MYTH that we only use 10% of our brains
  • makes up 75% of the cerebral cortex
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3 types of brain imaging and quick description of each

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  1. CAT scans
    - x-rays, pictures
  2. PET scans
    - inject radioactive glucose into the blood to see brain activity
  3. MRIs
    - expose to very strong magnetic field
    - presents best structural information
    - can watch the brain live
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What is the Corpus Callosum

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It connects the two hemispheres of the brain

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What is Lateralization

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Greater localization of a function on one side of the brain

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Things controlled more efficiently by the Left & Right Hemisphere

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LEFT

  • verbal/speech, language
  • math logic
  • positive emotions

RIGHT

  • mental imagery
  • music and artistic functions
  • spacial relationships
  • negative emotions
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Why do Chinese people process language more in the right hemisphere?

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They process their language more in the right hemisphere because Chinese is more picture like than English language for example

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What is Plasticy

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Neurons reassigning functions to fix brain damage early on in life

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What are the effects of the following Neural Disorders; Apraxia, Agnosia, Aphasia

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Apraxia: inability to perform smooth motor movements

Agnosia: inability to interpret sensory information

Aphasia: speech disorder

  • Broca’s expressed Aphasia results in difficulty stringing words together (apraxia)
  • Wernicke’s expressed Aphasia results in difficulty in understanding (agnosia)
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What is Hemispatial Neglect

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  • caused by a stroke to the right hemisphere
  • parietal and temporal lobes are affected
  • only found in humans
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What is Split Brain Operation

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  • person suffering from severe epilepsy
  • corpus callosum is severed deliberately to prevent seizures from spreading across hemispheres
  • if you flash something in front of their right visual field, they can tell you verbally what it was
  • if you flash something in front of their left visual field, they can only write down what it was
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What is a Genotype

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Specific genetic makeup of an individual

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What is a Phenotype

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The resulting characteristics/behaviour caused by their genotype

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What is Polygenic Transmission

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Several genes influence one phenotype

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What are Recombinant DNA procedures

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Combine DNA from two organisms and put them back into one

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What is Gene Knockout

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When a specific gene is altered so it stops doing anything

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What is Concordance

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The inheritance of the same trait by two related individuals

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What is Adoption Study

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Compare adopted people to their biological parents vs adopted parents

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What are Twin Studies

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Study of identical or fraternal twins to determine heritability of certain traits

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What are Alleles

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Alternate forms of a gene that produce different characteristics

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Meaning of Homozygous

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Alleles have a predictable phenotypic outcome

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Meaning of Heterozygous

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Alleles have different possible outcomes

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What is a Dominant Allele

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Alleles that produce their effect in either homozygous or heterozygous mode

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What is a Recessive Allele

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Alleles produce their effect on in homozygous mode

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Explain the Minnesota Twin Study

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  • Landmark study following twins that were separated at birth
  • Genetic factors accounted for 39-58% of personality variation
  • Unique personal experiences accounted for 36-56%
  • Family environment did not matter
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Who is Galton and what did he do

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  • Studied the relatives of intelligent people
  • Believed natural son of smart people did better than adopted ones
  • Measured simple motor and sensory abilities
  • Believed that intelligence was unitary (mental quickness)
  • Results were disappointing, but he did invent the correlation coefficient in the process
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Who is Sir Cyril Burt

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  • Conducted a large scale study of twins reared apart
  • He reported that the heritability coefficient of intelligence was 1 (ex. all variation in intelligence is due to genetics)
  • Turns out HE MADE THE DATA UP
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Who is Bouchard

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  • Estimated that the heritability coefficient of intelligence was 0.72 by studying twins
  • Scarr & Carter later responded that simply believing you are an identical twin is a big environmental factor. Twins who weren’t identical, but thought they were, had more similar intelligence
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What are Biological Based Mechanisms

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Receive input from environment, process info and respond to it

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What is Evolution

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Change over time in the frequency of certain genes in a population

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Change over time in the frequency of certain genes in a population

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Natural Selection is characteristics that increase likelihood of survival and ability to reproduce will become more common over time

118
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What is PKU

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  • Results in brain damage and mental retardation
119
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Tay Sachs Disease

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  • Causes blindness, deaf, unable to swallow

- Fatal by age 4

120
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What is Huntington’s Disease

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  • Breaks down muscle control
121
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What is the Evolutionary Personality Theory

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Basic human personality traits are sculpted by natural selection
- Ex.) how well they help you survive. There are very few basic personality traits and they are found in every culture

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What is Polygyny

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this is when male species has more sex with a wider range of different females. The females typically are discriminating of their mates
- Ex.) typically humans

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Meaning of Monogamy

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equal sex for the man and the woman

- Ex.) birds

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Meaning of Polyandry

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Opposite if Polygyny, where females have sex with a wider range of males. Males don’t have sex with many different women and this is very rare
Ex.) fish/insects

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Meaning of Polygyandry

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When everyone has sex with everyone

Ex.) Bonobos

126
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What Men vs. Women prefer in mates

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MEN

  • youth (reproductive potential)
  • hot
  • fit

WOMEN

  • older
  • rich
  • sign of high parental investment
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Cooperation vs. Altruism

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Cooperation: helping someone for mutual benefit
Altruism: helping someone at personal cost

128
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What is the Kin Selection Theory

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Argues altruism development to increase survival of relatives. Higher relatedness between people result in higher rates of altruism

129
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What is the Theory of Reciprocal Altruism

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Argues that altruism is long term cooperation, and that it is practice with the hope to be repaid in the future
Ex) hoping for favour in the future

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List things about aggression

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  • Competition for mates (arguing over hottest girls)
  • Aggression is built in and triggered by certain cues
  • Murder rates are correlated with income inequality (not unemployment or total wealth
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What is Genetic Determinism

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Genes have unavoidable effects that cannot be altered

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What is Social Darwinism

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  • Those at the top of the social latter are genetically the “best”
  • Evolution has no “plan”
  • The influence of culture and learning
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What are Proximal Causes of Behaviour

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Immediate mechanisms to meet those needs

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What are Distal Causes of Behaviour

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Evolutionary processes to meet those needs

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What is a Genetic Drift

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It is when a disease travels until it reaches a place where it becomes isolated

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Meaning of Correlate of Structure

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Because one trait is selected, other related traits are selected. Opposable thumb selection results in larger brain parts, shorter other fingers, etc…