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Phrenology

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bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and character traits

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Biopsychology

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The mind thinking about the brain (biology, behavior, mental process)

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Neuroscience

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Focuses on mind and behavior
-biological approach

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Nervous system

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sends messages to the brain for body movement

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Neurons

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Send messages to and from the brain
-RECEIVE, PROCESS & TRANSMIT INFO

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2 primary functions of the nervous system

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-Central nervous system
-Peripheral nervous system

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Sensory/Afferent neuron

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Takes info from the organ to the brain

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Interneurons

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interpret messages

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Motor/Efferent neuron

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reaction messages away from the brain to the muscles, organs, and glands

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Action Potential

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when the neurons fire/go

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recharging period

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when the neuron charges
-neuron can’t fire until fully charged

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resting potential

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neuron has the potential to fire/go

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absolute threshold

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tipping/breaking point before it fires

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all or nothing

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either fires or does not

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depolarization

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aftermath effect of action potential

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synapse

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acts as an electrical insulator, preventing an electrical charge from racing to the next skill

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neurotransmitter

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chemical messenger
-used in natural communicaion

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netural communication

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the chimcals that our bodies produce work as agonist and antagonists

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agonists

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speed up

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antagonists

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slow down/block

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endocrine system

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bodys chemical messengar that relies on hormones

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pututiary gland

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controls all of the responses of the endocrine system and overall growth
-most important gland

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thyroid

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regulate energy level in the body

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adrenal

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help arose the body in time of stress (adrenaline)

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pancreatic

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regulate blood sugar in blood (diabetes)

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sex

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overies and testes are the glands that influence emotion and physical development

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brain stem

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made up of 4 regions
-oldest part of the brain

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medulla

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egulated body/life-support functions including breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate

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pon

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sleep
-what happens when you are sleeping
-why you don’t pee the bed
-why you can still breath

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reticulsr

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keep brain alert
-reactions
-damage leads to coma

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thalamus

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central processing chip incoming and outgoing sensorys

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cerebellum

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coordinaes with motor skills and movemnt we preform without thinking
-reading, talking, breathing, walking

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limbic system

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give humans capability for emotion and memory
-middle layer of brsin that wraps around the thalmus

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hippocampus

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memories
-process new memory for permanemt storage

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amygdala

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fear and anger

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hypothalamus

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body thermostate
-regulate body temp, fluid levels, and nutrients
-body temp, when you get hungry, when you get thirsty

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cerebal cortex

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high order thinking and process
-covers the brains lower level structure

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frontal lobe

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-involves motor cortex
-making plans and judgement
-just behind forehead

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parietal lobe

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processing senses
-top of brain

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temporal lobe

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involving in auditory (listening)

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occipital lobe

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visual functions
-back of the brain

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corpus callosum

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connects the brain
-sometimes cut to prevent seizures

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Broca’s area

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expressive language, muscle movement, important to speech
-located in the left frontal lobe

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Wernicke area

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understanding of tone, sound of voice when sad, mad, happy
-located in the temporal lobe

45
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motor cortex

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movements
-ride side controls left
-left side controls right
back of the frontal lobe

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somatosesnory

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touch

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left hemisphere

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regulate positive emotions, control of muscles, used in psych, movement, speaking, and writing memory for words, speech writing, and language

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right hemisphere

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regulate negative emotion, respond to simple commands memory for music and shapes, spatial relationships, visual

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longitudinal fissure

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divide central cortex into right and left hemisphere

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split brain process

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helps people who have a lot of seizure
-cutting the brain in two by cutting the corpus callosum

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sensation

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stimulated receptor (eyes, ears ) create pattern of natural messages that represent the stimulus in the brain
-taking stuff in

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perception

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based on personal experiences
-how you perceive something

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top down percepion

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emphizez that percives expectation, concept memories, and other cognitive factors

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transduction

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the sensory process that converts energy such as light or sound waves into natural messages

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sensory adaptation (adjustments)

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vody getting use to ie like getting in a cold pool and getting used to the temp

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absolute threshold

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maximum level of stimulus necessary for a stimulus to be detected

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just noticable difference (JND)

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minimal amount of charge in the signal that is still recognizable

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cornea

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protective outer later of eye

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iris

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muscle controlling the pupil

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lens

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sharpen/focuse vision

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retina

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transduction happens in the light senstative layer of cell at back of eye

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photoreceptor

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light senor neruon

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rods

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sensitive to dim light, not color

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cones

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sensitive to color, not dim lights

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fovea

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sharpest visual point
-most detailed

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optic nerve

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carry visual info to brain/memory cortex

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blind spot

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point where theres no photoeceptor

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cochea

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snail shaped tube

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paralell processing

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picking up color, motion, form and depth to recognize something like a bird

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middle ear

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transmits the eardrum vibration

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auditory nerve

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movement of cells trigger the adjacen bever fibers and connects thalamus to temporal lobe

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sound localization

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determine where sound id coming from
-which ear hears it first
-which ear hears a louder sound

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conduction deafness

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inablility to hear, resulting for damage to the structure of the middle or inner ear

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nerve deafness

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inablility to hear, linked to a deficint in the body ability to ransmit impulse from the cochela to the brain
-sensorinerual deafness

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vestibular sense

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sense of body orientation with respect to gravity
-balance

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kinesthetic sense

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body sense
-knowing if your sore or hurt
-feedback your body gives you

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umami

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saveroy flavor

78
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taste recepors

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damaged from alchol and smoke

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skin senses

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pain, warmth, cold, pressure

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gate-control theroy

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explanaion for pain contro; saying we have neral gate that can block incoming pain

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extrasensory

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ability to gain information by some means other then ordinary senses

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clairvoyance

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perceiving objects or info without sensory

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telepathy

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involve the reading of someone else thoughts

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precognitive

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ability to foretell future events

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psychokinesis

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involving moving objects

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feature detectors

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specialized cells in the brain that identify specific features (line, curve)

87
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bottom-up

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analyze characteristics
-color, line, edge

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top-down

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expectation, memory
-reading

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perceptual consistency

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color, size, shape

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DC Psych Test 1 (4 decks)

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