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| Most recently developed part of the brain in charge of sensory, motor and cognitive process (thinking, planning, and problem solving). It is the largest brain structure. |
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- Pons (involved in sleeping, waking, and dreaming)
- Medulla- responsible for certain automatic functions such as breathing and heart rate.
- Involved with balance and movement
- Reticular Activating System- Screens incoming info; important for alertness
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| Name the three main parts of the brain |
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- Forebrain
- Midbrain
- Hindbrain/Brainstem
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| Name the four degrees of Conciousness |
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- Coma
- Vegetative state
- Persistent vegetative state
- Brain death
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- profound or deep state of unconsciousness
- affected individual is alive but is unable to react to stimuli
- may be an expected progression or complication of and underlying illness, or following trauma
- damage to forbrain
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- lack of cognitive function and awareness of environment
- Non-cognitive function and preserved sleep-wake cycle
- may follow coma
- described as when a person is alive, but their brain is dead
- damage to forebrain but brainstem is intact
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| Persistent Vegetative state |
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- Like vegetative state but lack sleep-wake cycle
- complete lack of awareness
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- Irreversible brain damage
- brainstem damage prevent survival functions
- artificial support is necessary to maintain survival
- clinical definition dependent on battery of neurological tests
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| Responsible for thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Uses electrical and chemical functions, organ in the body |
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| The awareness of the brain's functioning. What the brain does |
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No such thing as right or wrong way to do things. Each culture has their own reasons for doing things.
ex: Europe they kiss on cheeks |
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Going to cultures and participating and observing these cultures.
ex: Christmas in Kalahari |
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Treating someone as if they don't have human characteristics; as an object
ex: feminist view of pornography as objectification |
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Moment of disorientation, where one may feel uncomfortable in their new/different situation, anxiety.
ex: traveling abroad, craving something from home |
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What people have to know and do in order to make a system work in a particular setting.
ex: Christmas in Kalahari |
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| Process of remembering and forgetting |
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| Study of how people use language, mostly interested in power relations/ heirarchy |
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| How meaning is constructed and understood; linguistics most interested in signs and symbols. |
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| Examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept |
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| The norms of behavior are strongly defined by economic and historical values |
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| Says what it says in the moment it is spoken |
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| Produces effects as consequences. Speech act isn't taken the same as the way the speaker ants it to come across. Hate speech- The speech acts themselves are meant to create a consequence. |
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| How you conceptualize and express yourself |
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| How society expresses who you are. |
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- Anthropologist and doctor
- Formed partners in health
- reshaped health organizations the way they looked at medicine
- believed free health care is a human right
- created largest hospital in haiti
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- studied effects on men that have been tortured
- GLOBAL METAL- what it means where heavy metal isn't really looked up too. The meaning of metal across cultures where you're not allowed to express yourself.
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- Looks at the reason why people and what it means to be on facebook/myspace.
- Different people have different reasons for what they put up on these sites.
- 90% do it to solidify relationships already created
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- Professor at Kansas State
- Study culture of youtube: participant observation
- Most trafficking is through comments
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Ways to think about culture
- Man is in web of significance that he himself has spun.
- We put up the web, but because were inside we don't realize what is actually around us.
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- Culture is stage/ stage setting/ cast of characters/ stage directions
- Translates too: Space/ setting/ individuals that relate/ norms of behavior
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- Culture is account of a particular process practiced by particular people in a particular setting.
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RIGHTS OF PASSAGE/ Disorientation
Three sections
- Separation- when you are first separated from your parents at school
- Marginalization- Introduced to situation alone and have to find out everything for yourself; test the waters ect. TRANSITION STATE not a social status.
- Aggregation/ Reassemilation- transformed person is inserted back into society may experience state of aggression from the individual who feels overwhelmed or anxious
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