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| The study of behavior and mental processes |
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| is a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain certain observations |
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| Psychoanaltic/psychodynamic |
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| Emphasizes unconsious processes and unresolved past conflicts |
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| this aproach emphasizes the mental processes involved in knowing how we direct our attention, how we percieve, how we remember, and how we think and solve problems |
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| the process of thinking and evaluating thoughts, feelings, and behavior so we can clarify and interpret them |
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| emphasizes a person's positive qualities, the capacity for positive growth, and the freedom to choose any destiny |
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| this aproach emphasizes the ways in which the social cultrural environments influence behavior |
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| this aproach emphasizes that the brain and nervous system, are central to understanding behavior, thought, and emotion |
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| this approach emphasizes the importance of adaption, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest" in explaining behavior |
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| thread like molecules of DNA that carrie genetic information |
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| the nerve cells that process information |
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| the brain and the spianl cord |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| network of nerves that connects the brain and the spinal cord to other parts of the body |
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| Systematic Nervous System |
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| nerves that connect to the sensory receptors and skeletal muscles |
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| the systematic and parasystematic responses |
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| consists of the medulla, the pons, and the cerebellum, lowest part of the brain |
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| a center for reflexes related to vision and hearing |
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| controls most of our cognitive, motivational, and emotional activity, highest part of the brain |
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| responsible for all higher mental processes and is divides into four sections |
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| our hormones are the chemical messengers specifically manufactured by this system |
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| drug taking that causes emotional physical harm to the individual or others |
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| broad term referring to feelings of compulsions |
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| desire or craving to achieve effects produced by a drug |
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| is not defined by what it investigates but by how it investigates |
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| an idea that is arrived at logically from a theory |
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| An in-depth look at a single individual |
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| the body's electrochemical communication circuitry made up of billions of neurons |
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| the brains special capacity for change |
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| sensory nerves, conveys information from the skin and muscles to the CNS |
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| this theory stresses that behavior is determined not only by environmental conditions but also by how thoughts modify the impact of environment on behavior |
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| this approach emphsizes unconscious aspects, conflict between biological instincts and society's demands, and early experiences |
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| this approach is the scientific study of behavior and that behavior is shaped by the environment |
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| this approach emphasizes social control and cultrual influences on behavior |
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| Symphathetic nervous system |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system |
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| provide support and nutrition to the nervous system |
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| directs the manufacture of substances that the neuron needs for growth and maintence |
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| branches of neurons that recieve information toward the cell body |
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| the part of the neuron that carries information away from the cell body |
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| layer of fat cells that encases and insulates, speeding up the transmission of the nerve impulses |
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| chemicals that carry information from one neuron to the next |
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| the process of recieving stimulus energies from the environment |
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| the brain's process of organizing and interpreting informaton |
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| the study of how people natually organize their perceptions according to certain patterns |
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| large bundle of axons that connects the brain's two hemipheres |
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| provides information about balance and movement |
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| the minimal amount of stimulus energy that an individual can detect |
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| stimulates the firing of the neurons and is envolved in the actions of muscles, learning, memory |
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keeps neurons from firing
anxiety
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| inhibits the firing of neurons in the central nervous system, excites the heart muscles |
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| helps control voluntary movement, effects sleep, mood, attention, and learning |
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| involved in regulation of sleep, mood, attention, learning |
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| shields the body from pain and elevates feelings of pleasure, stimulates the firing of neurons |
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| the midbrain system that consist of a diffuse collection of neurons involved in streotyping behaviors, such as walking, sleeping, or turning to attend a sudden noise |
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| the region of the brain that includes most of the hindbrain |
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