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Behaviour genetics

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The study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences

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Heredity

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Genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring

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Environment

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Every non genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us.

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Chromosome

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Threadlike structures made of DNA Jolie led that contain the genes

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DNA

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DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID

a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosome

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Genome

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Complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in the organisms chromosomes

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Genes

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Bio chemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes, small segments of DNA capable of synthesizing proteins

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Identical twins (monozygotic)

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Develop from a single fertilized egg that splits. Genetically identical!

  • same genes but not always the same number of copies of those genes repeated in the genome.
  • share placenta 2/3 of time
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Fraternal (dizygotic) twins

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Develop from two separate fertilized eggs. As genetically similar as siblings.

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Identical twins are more similar in..

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Openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness,extra version, and temperament

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Temperament

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A persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

-genetically influenced

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Heritability

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The proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes

  • intelligence is 50-80% heritable
  • height is 90% heritable
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Interaction

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The interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor (such as heritability).

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Molecular genetics

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The sub field of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes

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Molecular behaviour genetics

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The study of how the structure and function of genes interact with our environment to influence behaviour

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Epigenetic

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“Above” or “in addition” genetics

The study of the molecular mechanisms by which environments can influence gene expression (without a DNA change)
-diet, drugs, and stress

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Evolutionary psychologists

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The study of the evolution of behaviour and the kind, using principles of natural selection

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Natural selection

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The principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

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Mutations

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A random error in general replication that leads to a change

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What percent of genetic variation exists within populations?

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95%

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Which sex thinks, engages and dreams of sex more?

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Males

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What do men and women prefer in a mate

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Men: smooth skin, youthful shape, smaller waist than hips.

Women: tall, thin waist: broad shoulders, money to support them

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Social scripts

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A culturally modelled guide for how to act in various situations

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Sexual over perception bias

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Men believe dating partners are expressing more interest in them than they really are.

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Prosopagnosia

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Face blindness due to a damaged right hemisphere where the brain can not recognize faces.

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Sensation

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The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment

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Sensory receptors

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Sensory nerve ending that respond to stimuli

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Perception

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The process by which our brain organized and interprets sensory information, enabling us to recognize objects and events as meaningful.
-under normal circumstances sensations no perception blend into a continuous process

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Bottom up processing

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Information processing that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information.

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Top down processing

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Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations

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Transduction

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Conversion of one form of energy into another

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Psychophysics

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The study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity and our psychological experience of them.

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Absolute threshold

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The minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time.

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Signal detection theory

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A theory predicting how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) amid background stimulation (noise). Assumes there is no single absolute threshold and the detection depends partly on a persons experience, expectations and motivation

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Subliminal

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Belies ones absolute threshold for conscious awareness

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Difference threshold

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The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50% of the time. We experience this as a just noticeable difference.

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Weber’s law

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The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage greater than a constant amount.
Ex: 2 lights must differ in intensity by 8%

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Sensory adaption

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Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation

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Perceptual set

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

  • optical illusions
  • does Mac D’s taste better in container or plate?
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Wavelength

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The distance from the peak of one light or sound wave to the peak of the next. Electromagnetic wavelengths vary from the short gamma rays to the long radio waves

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Hue

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The dimension of colour that is determined by the wavelength of light.

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Intensity

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The amount of energy in a light wave or sound wave. Which influences what we perceive as brightness or loudness. Intensity is determined by the waves amplitude (height)

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Retina

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Light sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neruons that begin the processing of visual information.

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Accommodation

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The process by which the eyes lens change shoots to focus on near or far objects on the retina.

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Rods

Cones

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Retinal reception that detect black, white and Grey and are sensitive to movement. Rods are necessary for peripheral and twilight vision, when cones don’t respond.

Retinal reception that are concentrated near the Center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-light conditions. Detect fine details and give rise to colour sensations.

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Optic nerve

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The nerve that carriers neural impulses from the eye to the brain

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Blind spot

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The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a “blind spot” because no receptor cells are located there.

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Fovea

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The central focal point in the retina, around which the eye’s cones cluster

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A cone can transmit its message to a_____

While rods…

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Single bipolar cell which relays to the visual cortex. Rods work together for one bipolar cell.

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Young-hemholtz trichromatic theory

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The theory that the retina contains 3 different types of colour receptors. One most sensitive to red, to green, and to blue. Which when stimulates in combination, can produce the perception of any colour.
Red+green=yellow

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Opponent process theory

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The theory that opposing retinal processes (red-green, blue-yellow, black-white) enable colour vision.
Ex: some cells stimulated by green and inhibit red.

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Feature detectors

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Nerve cells in the brains visual cortex that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle or movement

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Parallel processing

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Processing many aspects of a stimulus or problem simultaneously

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Gestalt

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An organized whole, our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.

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Figure-ground

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The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

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Grouping

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The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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Depth perception

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The ability to see objects in 3-D, although the images that strike the retina are 2-d; allows us to judge distance

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Visual cliff

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A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infancy and young animals.

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Binocular cues

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A depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of two eyes.

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Retinal disparity

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A binocular cue for perceiving depth, by comparing retinal images form the two eyes, the brain computes distance.

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Monocular cue

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A depth cue such as interposition or linear perspective, available to either eye alone

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Phi phenomenon

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An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession

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Perceptual constancy

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Perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent colour, brightness, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images change.

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Perceptual adaption

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The ability to change sensor input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.

-wear glasses that make everything 40° left, in minutes you’ll adapt

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Audition

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The send of or act of hearing

  • can hear 10x faster than we can see
  • amplitude perceives loudness
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Frequency

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The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time

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Pitch

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A tones experienced highness or lowness: depends on frequency

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What is the absolute threshold of hearing

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0 decibels

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How do we hear

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Sound waves strike your eardrum, causing the tight membrane to vibrate

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Middle ear

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The chamber between the eardrum and the cochlea containing three tiny bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup) that concentrate the vibrations of the ear drum on the cochlear window.

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Cochlea

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A coiled, bony, fluid filled tube in the inner ear where sound waves traveling through the cochlear fluid trigger nerve impulses

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Inner ear

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The innermost part of the ear, containing the chickens , semicircular canals, and vestibular sacs.

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Pathway of hearing

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Vibrating air-tint moving bones- fluid waves-electrical impulses-auditory nerve- thalamus-auditory cortex in temporal lobe.

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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The most common form of hearing loss, caused by damage to the cochlea’s receptor cells or to the auditory nerve;also called nerve deafness.

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Conduction hearing loss

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A less common form of hearing loss, caused by damage to the mechanical system (eardrum/middle bones) that conducts sounds waves to the cochlea.

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Cochlear implant

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A device for converting sounds into electrical signals and stimulating the auditory nerve through electrodes threaded into the cochlea

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Place theory

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I’m hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlear membrane is stimulated.

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Frequency theory

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I’m hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses travelling up the auditory nerve matches the frequent of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch

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How can we hear frequencies above 1000 waves/second?

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Nerve cells alternate firing to schedule combined frequency above 1000 waves/ second

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Nociceptors

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Sensory receptors mostly in skin the detect hurtful temperatures, pressure or chemicals

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Gate control theory

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The theory that the spinal cord contains a “neurological gate” that blacks lain signals or allows them to pass in to the brain. Gate it opened by the activity of pain signals travelling up small nerve fibers and is closed by activity in larger fibers (massage)

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Hypnosis

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A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts or behaviours will spontaneously occur.

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Dissociation

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A split in consciousness, which allows some through and behaviours to occur simultaneously with others.

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Posthypnotic suggestions

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A suggestion made during a hypnosis session that is to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized.

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Guststion

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Our sense of taste

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Taste senses

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Sweet, sour, bitter and umami

  • reproduce every two weeks
  • as you age the number of taste buds decrease
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Olfaction

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Our sense of smell (chemical sense)

  • receptors in nose (by pass thalamus)
  • odour molecules bind to a combination of receptors
  • hard to describe smells
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Kinesthesia

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Our movement sense- sensory position and movement of individual body parts

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Vestibular sense

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Our balance sense- our sense of body movement and position that enables
our sense of balance.
-movement of fluids in the inner ear

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Sensory interactions

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The principle that one sense can influence another, as when the smell of food influences its taste

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Embodied cognition

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The influence of bodily sensations, gestures and other states in cognitive preferences and judgements
-people feel socially warm and friendly on warm days

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Extra sensory perception (ESP)

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The controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input. 
Includes telepathy (Ming to mind communication), clairvoyance (perceiving remote events) and precognition
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Parapsychology

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The study of paranormal phenomena including ESP and psychokinesis

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Consciousness

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Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

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Altered states of consciousness

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Occur spontaneously: day dream, drowsiness, dreaming

Physiologically induced: hallucinations, orgasm, food/oxygen starvation

Psycho-Logically induced: sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation

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Cognitive neuroscience

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The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (perceptions, thinking, memory and language)

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Selective attention

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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
Ex: cocktail party effect: at a party you hear only the person talking to you, but if you hear your name, you become aware of others

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Inattentional blindness

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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is distracted elsewhere
Ex: pick pockets bump into you to distract you from taking your money

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Change blindness

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Failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness

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Dual processing

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The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

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Blindsight

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A condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it

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Sequential processing

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Processing one aspect of a stimulus or problem at a time; generally used to process new information or to solve a difficult problem

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Sleep

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A periodic, natural loss of consciousness as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a constant, herbal anesthesia or hibernation.
-brains activity cortex responds to stimuli even during sleep

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Circadian rhythm

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Our biological clock; regular bodily rhythms for example of temperature and wakefulness that occur in a 24 hour cycle

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REM sleep

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Rapid eye movement sleep; a reoccurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed but other body systems are active.

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Alpha waves

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The relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

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Hallucinations

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False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

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Delta waves

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The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

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Regardless of sexual context, gentians become ______ in REM sleep

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Aroused

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Suprachiasmatic nucleus

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A pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm in response to the light. The SCN cussed the pineal gland to adjust melatonin production, thus modifying our feelings of sleepiness.

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Why sleep

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Protects from danger, recuperate brain, restore memories, feeds creative thinking, supports growth

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Insomnia

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Reoccurring problems in falling or staying asleep

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Narcolepsy

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A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. Sufferers also into REM sleep randomly

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Sleep apnea

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A sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessation’s of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings

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Night terrors

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Sleep disorder where high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; occur during N3 sleep, within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep and are seldom remembered

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Dreams

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A sequence of images, emotions and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons mind.

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Manifest content

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According to freud, the symbolic, remembered story line of a dream

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Latent content

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According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream (not the manifest content)

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REM rebound

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The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation

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Psychoactive drugs

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A chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods

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Substance abuse disorder

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A disorder characterized by continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruption and or physical risk

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Tolerance

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The diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take a larger dose

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Addiction

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An everyday term with regular use of that continues despairs harmful consequences

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Withdrawal

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The discomfort and distress that follows discontinuing an addictive drug or behaviour

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Depressants

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Drugs such as alcohol and opiates that reduce neural activity and slow body functions

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Opiates

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Depress neural functioning (heroin, meth, codes, oxytocin, morphine)

Repeated use stops brain from producing endorphins

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Stimulant

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Drugs like coffee, nicotine, cocaine, ecstasy and meth that excite neural activity and speed up body functions

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Nicotine

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A stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco products

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Cocaine

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A powerful and addictive stimulant derived from the coca plant: temporary increased alertness and euphoria

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Methamphetamines

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A powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the CNS with accelerated body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, reduced baseline dopamine levels

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Ecstasy

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(MDMA) a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen that produced euphoria and social intimacy. Causes long term harm to Serotonin producing neurons and to mood and cognition

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Hallucinogens

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Psychoactive drugs such as LSD that district perception and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.

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Near death experience

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An altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with dearth- often similar to drive induced hallucinations

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Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

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A powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid

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Marijuana

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Marijuana leaves contain THC which triggers a variety of effects including mild hallucinations.

THC lingers in the body for a week

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Biological influences of drugs

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  • genetics making you more susceptible
  • if identical twins is diagnosed with alcohol use disorder, other is at increased risk
  • adoption studies: children of biologically drug-abusing parents had doubled risk of drug abuse
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Psychological and social influences of Durga

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P: lacking sense of purpose, significant stress, psychological disorders (depressions)

S: difficult environment, cultural acceptance, negative peer influence

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Sleep stages

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N1- lasts (1-5 minutes) dozing off
N2- lasts (10-60 minutes) slowed breathing and heart ate
N3- lasts (20-40 minutes) deep delta wave sleep
REM- lasts (10-60 minutes) brain activity picks up

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