Psychology (87.88) Flashcards
What do Dendrites do
Receive information from neurons
What are neurotransmitters
Chemicals
How is the information sent
Action potentials
What do Axons do
get information sent from neurons
What is Phrenology
The early belief that head shad determined personality and function
What is Broca’s Area
A region if the brain concerned with the production of speech
What is the main function of the Cerebral cortex
Complex mental action, Sensations, Cognition, and control
What is the main function if the frontal lobe
Thought, planning, and movement
What is the main function of the Occipital lobe
Vision
What is the main function of the Parietal lobe
Touch and Spatial relations
What is the main function of the Temporal lobe
Hearing and Memory
What is the main function if the Subcortical Region
Appetite, emotion, and behavior
What is the main function if the Hypo campus
Short term and long term memory
What is the Thalamus
The body information station
What does the Basal Ganglia do
controls your body’s voluntary movements
Who was Phineas Gage
He had a rod go through his head
What is the amygdala
A major processing center for emotions
What does the Hypothalamus do
Keeps your body in homeostasis
Peripheral Nervous system
Not in the brain
Sympathetic
stress
Para Sympathetic
Chill
Endocrine system
glands send hormones through body that help you do things
what is consciousness
ones subjective experience/ awareness of the world resulting from brain activity
What is Flow
When completing a task provides an optimal experience of pleasure/ satisfaction
can everyone be hypnotized ?
no, weather you can or not depends on certain personality traits and suggestibility
What are 4 examples of brain damage
concussion, locked in syndrome, coma, brain death
What does the pineal gland do
releases the hormone melatonin
What is Sleep?
When the body rests and the brain is still active to some extent
Why do we dream
no body really knows
What is Activation synthesis theory
Sleep is adaptive, It was evolutionarily selected for survival of the fittest
Why is it assumed that during rem sleep you have weird dreams
Because our prefrontal cortex is deactivated during rem sleep
What order do Transduction, Stimulus, Sensation ,and perception go in
Stimulus, Sensation, Transduction, and Perception
What is Bottom up processing
assumptions with no past experience to look to
What is Top down Processing
From past experiences and context
how do sensory receptors respond different to Qualitative and Quantitive
Qualitative by firing at different combinations and quantitative by firing at different rates
Explain signal detection theory
You either see something or you don’t, and there either is something or not
What is your retina covered with
Rods and Cones
What is color perception
Color is just different wavelengths of light
What are rods and cones
cells that detect light that they send to ganglion cells
opponent process theory
Certain colors you cant think of, we code certain colors with opposites
what is Audition
sense of hearing
what is vestibular sense
sense of balance
what is olfaction
the sense of smell
what is Gustation
sense of taste
what is the Haptic sense
sense of touch
Gate control theory
there is only so much information that can go through nerves at once meaning you can temporarily stop the pain signals from going to the brain
