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Study of human continuity and change, seeking to analyze the past, develop insight into the contemporary social life, and understand the impact of individual and social actions on the future.
*provide insight into personal behavior
*develop understanding of society and the world as part of larger human experience in time and place
*analyze social, political, cultural, historical, and economic institutions and relationships that both linkand seperate societies throughout the world.
*develop analytical thinkning, and communication skills necessary in order to understand the world in which we live. |
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| another name for the combination of the medulla and the pons |
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| transmitts messages from within the cell |
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| located behind the medulla and the pons, this is a large structure with a great many deep folds. It is responsible for the regulation and coordination of complex voluntary muscular movement, as well as the maintenance of posture and balance. |
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| A sudden, drastic shift in the responses of the body's systems that prepares it for the immediate action; this occurs in reaction to a perceived external threat, or to internal stress. |
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| extending from the central suclus to the rear end of the brain, this lobe contains the precentral gyrus, Broca's area and the prefrontal cortex. |
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| the layer of the brain that is considered to be more primitive that is concerned with digestion, reproduction, circulation, breathing, and the execution of fight-or-flight responses. It is composed of the medulla, the pons, and the cerrebellum. |
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| What is the hindbrain's nicknames? |
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| R complex and repitilian brain. |
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| a state of balance among the various systems of the human body |
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| a small almond-shaped structure located in the limbic system, it is important in the association of events with emotion |
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| one of Jung's archetypes, it represents the feminine side of a man's personality. |
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| one of Jung's archetypes, it represents the masculine side of a woman's personality |
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| a universal thoght form or ideal that contains a large element of emotion. According to Jung, these are "psychological organs"that provide a structural view of psychological life, and have evolved over time in much the same way that physical organs have. |
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| an area of the left frontal lobe that is critical for language production |
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| a brain fissure seperating the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex from the parietal lobe. |
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| a structure on the surface of the cerebral hemispheres; the cortical part of the limbic system. |
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| one of the most original-and controversial-featurs of Jung's theory of personality, it is the strongest, most influential system of the psyche. The collective unconcious is a storehouse of latent memory, the psychic residue of human evolutionary development. This residue has built up as a result of recurring experiences over many generations, and it's almost entirely detached from any personal aspects of an individual. It is nearly universal among humans; all have more or less the same collective unconscious, which is caused by a common evolution. |
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| An organized group of feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and memories within the personal unconscious; each such group has a nucleus that acts as a kind of magnet attracting feelings, thoghts, perceptions, and memories to it. The nucleus, and many of the associated elements are unconcious at any particular time; however, any of the associations can and often do enter the consciousness. |
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| another name for the conscious mind, it consists of conscious perceptions, memories, thoughts, and feelings. it's responsible for a person's feelings of identity and continuity; from the viewpoint of the individual, it is regarded as being at the center of consciousness. |
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| an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a movement that advocated the idea that unconscious motives control much of behavior. |
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| according to Jung, these are the four ways in which we deal with the world, both inner and outer. the four functions are sensing, thinking, intuiting, and feeling. |
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| a part of the limbic system that converts information into long term memory, and affects memory recall. Repeated use of specialized nerve networks in the hippocampus elevates memory storage; thus, this structure is involved in learning, both from experience and from study. To aid in memory and recall, the hippocampus helps select which memories are stored, perhaps by attaching an "emotion marker" to some events so they are likely to be recalled. |
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| a small area of the limbic system located near the base of the brain. It has widespread connections with the rest of the forebrain and midbrain, nd contains a number of distant clusters of neutrons, called nuclei.It regulates the secretion of hormones by the pituitary gland. The hypothalamus contains receptors for specific hormones; in response to changes in the levels of those hormones, the hypothalamus sends messages to the pituitary gland- through nerves as well as hypothalamic hormones- to alter the pituitary's release of hormones. |
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| according to Freud, this is the division of the psyche that is totally unconcious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for the immediate satisfaction of primitive needs. |
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| poorly developed and completely unconcious function. |
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| a kind of perception that works outside of the usual concious process. It is irrational or perceptual, like sensing, but comes from the complex integration of large amounts of information, rather than simple seeing or hearing. Jung said it was like seeing around the corners. |
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| according to jung, this is a method of evaluating information that involves perception rather than judging of information. |
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| A Swiss psychiatrist who worked with Freud, and developed the Theory of Personality. |
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| traces of memories inherited from one's ancestral past, including not only the history of humans as a separate species, but their animal predecessors as well |
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| According to Freud, this is the pychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives, most often with sexual desire. |
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| a group of interconnected brain structures, common to all mammals, and involved in olfaction, emotion, motivation, behavior, and various autonomic functions. Includes the amygdala and the hippocampus |
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| also known as the medulla oblongota, it's located just above the spinal cord, and controls breathing, heart rate, vomiting, salivation, coughing, sneezing, and other vital reflexes |
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| the mysterious relationship between the mind and the brain in humans. |
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