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Central Nervous System

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Brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral nervous system

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Everything but brain adn spinal cord

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somatic NS

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Voluntary movement

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Autonomic NS

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Involuntary organs. contains sympathetic + parasympathetic NS

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Sensory neurons

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Recieve senses

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Motor neurons

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Signal to move

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Interneurons

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Resposible for the reflex arc (important stimuli skips brain and routes throuhg spinal cord for immediate reaction)

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GLIA

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support cells to neurons

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GABA

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Inhibitory NT

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Glutamate

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excitatory NT

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Dopamine

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Reward and fine movement

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Serotonin

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Moods, emotion, sleep

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Acetylchoine

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Memory and movement (assocaited with Alzheimer’s)

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Norephinephrine

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Sympathetic NS, too little assocaited with depression

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substance P

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Pain regulation

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Oxytocin

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Love, bonring, childbirth hormones

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Leptin

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makes you full

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Ghrelin

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Hungry

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Agonist

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drug that mimics a NT

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Antagonist

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drug that blocks a NT

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Reticular activating system

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Alterness, arousal, sleep, eye movement

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Cerebral cortex

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outer portion of the brain - higher order thoughts

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thalamus

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relay center for all byt smell

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Frontal lobe

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Decision making + planning

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Prefrontal cortex
Executative function
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Motor cortex
Back of frontal lobe
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Parietal lobe
senesation and touch (and assocaiation areas)
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Broca's area
Produciton of speech
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Wernike's area
Understanding of speech
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Dream activation synthesis theory
Brain produces bursts of energy to develop meaning in dreams
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Consolidation dream theory
Brain is combining and processing memories for storage
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Place ear theory
Place determiens where hair cells move and therefore sounds.
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Frequency theory
Rate at which action potentials are sent determiens sound
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Top down processing
perceptions from prior experiences
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Bottom up processing
Smaller parts to whole idea (dog of bunch of dots)
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Piaget Sensorimotor stage
Birth - 2 yrs. Exploring world. Object perminance
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Piaget pre-operational stage
2-6. Pretend play and mental symbols. Lack conservation, reversibility, are ecocentric and use animism (artificial objects have thoughts and feelings)
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Piaget concrete operational stage
7-11 use opteraional thinking, classification and logic
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Piaget formal operational stage
11-15. Abstreact and idealist thoughts
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Miucrosystem
Immediate environemtn wiht daily interactions
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Mesosystem
realtionship between microsystems
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Exosystem
Environment you're not directly a part of
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Macrosystem
societal and cultural influences
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Chronosystem
Life stage and historical events
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Cognitive dissonance
two opposing thoughts conflict with each other. Make us find ways to justifiy a situation.
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Repression
memories back into the unconscious mind
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Regrewssion
Go into earlier develoment period in the face of stress
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Denial
refuse to acknowledge reality
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Rationalization
Justify sometghing
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Displacement
Take feelings out on someone else
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Projection
Attribute personal shortcomings and faults on to tohers
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Reaciotn formation
Transform aunacceptatble motive into opposite
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sublimation
Replace unacceptable impulse with acceptable one.
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Neuroticism
Mood swings, easy streess
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Reciprocal determinism
Behavior, cognitions and enviooment make up you
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Instinct rtheory
Innate fixed pattrersn in response to stimuli
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Drive reduction theory
Psychological need creates around tension
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Biological perspective
Genese cause changes in brain
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Evolutionary
Increased survival
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Cognitive
Maladaptive thinking and emotions
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Behavioral
Maladative learned assocaitions
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Psycodynamic
Unconscious thoughts + childhood
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Humanistic
Lack of social support
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Sociocultural
Social/cultural dynamics
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Diathesis - stress
Poeple have gentci predisposition and then is turned on by stress
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ADHD
Inability to focus, hyperactivity
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ASD
Impeairment in social relationships and communication and reptitive behaviors
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Schizoid personality disorder
No interest in relationships, lack emotions
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Borderline
Instable interpersonal relationships and self-image
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Avoidant
Severe social anxiety, inadequate with a strong want for intimacy
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Dependent
Helpless and needs to be taken care of
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