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Chapter 1 Intro to the Science of Physcology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/19/2012

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Phineas Gage
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Natural damage to the brain (accident)
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Animal research
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Remove parts and study brain and any natural damage
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Recording techniques
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Electroencephalograph- record activity to the brain
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Brain stimulation
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poking to see what happens
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Genes
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A stretch of the DNA molcule that produces a specific protein
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Genotype
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is the genetic code
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Phenotype
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observable trait
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Evocative/ Reactive
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Genetically influenced characteristics draw out behaviors from other people/ tattoos , influenced by people and surrounding
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Passive
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Genetically shaped tendencies of parents or siblings produce an environment that is passively received by the child/music , dance, baking shaped by family
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Cerebral Hemisphere
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Each half of the brain
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Cerebral Cortex
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Where most mental processes arise, under the blood vessels on the surface of the brain: nicknamed "gray matter" because of the color
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Corpus Callosum
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Nerve fibers that connects each half of the brain
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Split Brain
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Surgery for split brain server cases cause epilepsy. This is a disease that causes massive uncontrolled neutral firing parts of the brain
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Occipital
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Located in back and creates vision
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Temporal
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Located lower front controls sound memory language and hearing
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Partietal
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Located top back- Processing somatosensory, spatial location and attention
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Frontal
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Located top front - Controls speech, search for memories, reasoning and emotions
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