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spinal cord,
receiving, processing, interpreting and storing incoming sensory info. |
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spinal cord, automatic
Ex: erections in men |
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| autonomic v. somatic nervous system |
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somatic: conencts to sensory receptors and skeletal muscles - voluntary
Autonomic: internal organs and glands - involuntary |
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| autonomic, peripheral nervous system...either fight or run depending on situation |
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| erection of the skin, goosebumps |
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| fundamental unit of nervous system, transmit to and from and within nervous system |
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| flexible in adapting to new situations and recovering from trauma |
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both brain cooporate, but can be one side dominant
left: more logic oriented
right: more creative |
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| sex differences in the brain |
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| stereotype, result rather than cause of behavior differences |
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| small open area between the transmitter and the receptor of the neurons |
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| electrical current (impulse) jumps from node to node |
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| chemicals that speed up or slow down between neuron and cell. |
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| major excitatory transmittor |
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| inhibatotry neuro transmittor |
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| major neurotransmitter, controls muscle movements, cognitive functioning, memory and emotions |
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| major neurotransmitter, learning and memory |
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| major neurotransmitter, sleep apetite and mood |
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| major neurotransmitter, heartrate, slowing of intestional activity, dreaming and waking |
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chemical substances in brain that act like opiates, involved in pain reduction, pleasure and memory
ex: lady falling from the cliff felt no pain |
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angrogen - masculanizing
estrogen - feminizing |
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medulla: heartrate and breathing
Pons: sleeping, waking and dreaming
RAS: receives sensory info, screens incoming info, connections to higher areas of brain and alerts when attention needed |
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| Feeding, fleeing, fighting and sex. |
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processing and memory of emotional reactions
- Limbic System |
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Occipital Lobe: back of brain, vision
Parietal lobe: above Occipital, controls symata sensory: pain, touch, pressure
Temporal lobe: controls auditory functioning (language)
Frontal lobe: organization, higher functioning, inhabition, social judgement, goal setting and planning |
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| steel rod went through his head and hit the frontal lobe, he was no longer himself and lost his job |
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| govern waxing and waning of hormone levels, urine volume, blood pressure and responsiveness of brain cells to stimulation |
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biological clock, controlled by SCN in hypothalamus,
ex: sleep-wake cycle, body temperature
melatonin: responds to light and dark, increases with darkness |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| problem with melatonin levels, people get depressed in winter, can be treated with phototherapy |
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| can be associated with anti-social behavior or can lead to it. |
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| can help elevate mods and ability to relax, reduce muscle tension and increase seratonin |
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| exact function uncertain, provides time for rejuvination and repair, when we don't sleep - operate abnormally and lose mental function |
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| lack of breathing for few minutes during sleep, sometimes associated with obesity |
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| problems with falling or staying asleep |
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| uncontrolable and unpredictable attack of sleep during the day |
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| light sleep, activity slows down, small rapid waves |
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| breathing and heartrate slow, small irregular waves |
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| deep sleep begins, sleep spindles in waves |
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| very deep sleep, limited muscle activity, delta waves |
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| rapic eye movement, rapid irregular waves, dreaming |
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| meaning behind the images - symbolism |
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| current concerns in dreams |
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| dreams that are related to relative concerns |
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| procedure in which practinioner sugests changes in senstations, perceptions, thoughts, feelings and behaviors of subjects |
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| can everyone be hypnotised? |
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| not everyone can be, have to be willing, some people are more difficult to be hypnotised because they aren't able to focus attention or fantasize. |
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| not altered state of conscious, hypnotised people just follow social commands because they think they have to do what they say |
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| hypnosis does create altered state of conscious, dramatic effects |
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| combination of both role and state, hypnotized isnt state of mind conscious but when normal ideas break apart |
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| any drug that alters state of conscious |
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| caffeinte, nicotine, speed, cocaine, emphetamines |
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| alcohol, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, |
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pain releavers, opium, morphine
Opium used to induce sleep and recude pain |
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| heroine, mimic endorphines |
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| extremely addictive and hard to break |
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| gateway drug, addictive, can lead to behavioral changes, but beneficial in certain medical conditions like asthma, epilepsy, chronic pain and naisea from chemo |
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simplify or summarize info, we create so we can come to decisions quickly and accurately
ex: emotions |
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| typical examples of concepts |
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| representation that mirrors or resembles what it represents |
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mental inflexibility, being oblivious
ex: forgetting keys inside car |
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| formal v. informal reasoning |
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formal: logical, one solution, clear cut
informal: multiple approaches, not just one solution (rule of thumb) |
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| deductive v. inductive reasoning |
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deductive: all humans are mortal, I am human therefore I am mortal
Inductive: specific to general, but conclusion could still be false |
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| likelyhood of rare event, either really fantastic or seriously horrible |
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| use familiar objects in familiar ways unable to use in a creative, new way |
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overestimate your ability to predict the outcome once its known
"I knew that all along," |
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| simultaniously hold two ideas that are inconsistant |
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| Alfred Binet and Lewis Terman |
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| developed by Binet to test intelligence of children , now distributed to ages 2-99, lower than 70 - MR and higher than 130 is GT |
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| doubt their performance due to negative stereotypes about groups they belong to |
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| Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence |
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| posession of knowledge, being able to use knowledge to reason about the world, and ability to use reasoning to adopt to different enviroments |
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| identify own and other's emotons and ability to express them clearly and control them |
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| increase in IQ scores for the general population over time |
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| studdied top 100 of most successful men v. least successful men from top 1% - main difference in success was motivation |
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