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Psychology Test 1B
Chapter 3 (some from 1 and 2)
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/13/2014

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Term
Demand Characteristics
Definition
Cues that participants pick about a study
Term
Experimenter Biases
Definition
Cues that an experimenter emits in a study
Term
Double-Blind Procedure
Definition
Participants and the experimenter are unware of the hypotheses and which group receives the placebo and the drug
Term
Institution Review Board
Definition
  • Human Ethics
  • Looks at a study to make the results outweighs the best
Term
Informed Consent
Definition
  • Tells you your rights as a participants
  • right to widthdraw from the study
Term
IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Comittee)
Definition
Ethics for animals
Term
Descriptive/Correlational Research methods
Definition
  • Case Study
  • Brain Imaging
Term
Leisions
Definition
  • Localized brain injuries
  • shutting down a part of the brain
  • Discovery of the Hypothalamus 
Term
Stimulation
Definition
activation of an area of the brain
Term
rTMS
Definition
  • reversible leisions
  • uses a MAGNET to shut down stimulation
  • like a leision but temporary
  • once turned up the stimulation starts again
Term
Function of the Nervous System
Definition
  1. Input: stimulation from 5 senses
  2. Processing: in brain
  3. Output: respinse
Term
Neurons
Definition
brain/nerve cells
Term
Dendrites
Definition
receives signals from the other neurons
Term
Axon
Definition
carries a signal from one neuron to another; delivery
Term
Myelin Sheath
Definition
  • insulates the axons
Term
terminal buttone
Definition
secrete neurotransmitters
Term
Synaptic gap
Definition
gap between the terminal button of one neuron and the cell body of another neuron
Term
Multiple Sclerosis
Definition
  • Myelin Sheath dies
  • Brain disease
Term
Central Nervous System
Definition
Brain and Spinal Cord
Term
Peripheral Nervous System
Definition
All the nerves that lie outside the brain and the spinal cord.
Term
2 Components of the Nervous System
Definition
  1. Central Nervous System
  2. Peripheral Nervous System
Term
Agonist
Definition
chemical that mimics the action of a neurotransmitter
Term
Antagonist
Definition
chemical that opposes the action of a neurotransmitter
Term
Somatic Nervous System/Somatosensory System
Definition
  • voluntary movement
  • sensing moving
Term
Autonomic Nervous System/Autonomic System
Definition
  • involuntary movement
  • Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Term
Sympathetic Nervous System
Definition
  • Fight or Flight
  • Mobalizes you for action
  • heart rate up

 

Term
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Definition
  • Rest and Digest
  • claming you down
  • heart rate down
Term
Spinal Cord
Definition
incharge of reflexes
Term
Corpus Callosum
Definition
communication between the right and the left hemipshere of the brain
Term
Brain Stem
Definition
  1. Medulla
  2. Pins
  3. Cerebellum

Above the Spinal Cord

Term
Medualla
Definition
  • Breathing
  • Heart Beat
  • Blood Pressure
Term
Pons
Definition
  • Bridges Structure
  • Sleep and arousal

 

Term
Cerebellum
Definition
  • Coordinates bodily movement 
  • Balance
Term
Reticular Formation
Definition
  • controls sleep and levels of sleep
  • controls levels of arousal: being awake and sleep patterns
Term
Thalamus
Definition
  • a relay station for sensory information
  • located above the pons
  • EXCEPT smell
Term
Hypothalamus
Definition
  • Eating and Drinking
  • Temperature regulation
  • sexual behavior
Term
Stimulation and Leision of the Hypothalamus
Definition
  • Stimulation: non-stop eating and drinking
  • Leision: never eating or drinking 
Term
The Limbic System
Definition
  • motivation and emotion
  • Hippocampus
  • Amygdala
  • Nucleus Accumbens
Term
Hippocampus
Definition
  • memory
Term
Amygdala
Definition
  • emotions
  • formation of emotional memories
  • aggression
Term
Nucleus Accumbes
Definition
  • the pleasure center
Term
implicit memory
Definition
unconscious memory
Term
Cerebral Cortex
Definition
  • outer layer of the cerebrum
Term
Cerebrum
Definition

4 lobes:

  1. frontal
  2. occipital
  3. temporal
  4. pareital
Term
frontal lobe
Definition
  • motor output
  • Planning: language, judgement and decision-making
  • personality
Term
temporal lobe
Definition
  • auditory processing
  • memory
  • audition
  • integrating vision
Term
occipital lobe
Definition
  • responsible for vision
Term
pareital lobe
Definition
  • bodily sensations
  • visual attention
  • integrating the senses
Term
Acetylcholine
Definition
  • learning and memory
  • Alzheimers 
  • muscle movement in the peripheral nervous system
Term
Dopamine
Definition
  • reward circuits
  • Parkinsons disease
  • schizophrenia
Term
Norepinephrine
Definition
  • Arousal
  • Depression
Term
Serotonin
Definition
  • Aggression
  • Depression
  • Schizophrenia
Term
Glutamate
Definition
  • learning
  • major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain
Term
GABA
Definition
  • Anxiety disorders
  • epilepsy
  • major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain
Term
Endorphins
Definition
  • Pain
  • analgesia
  • reward
Term
L-dopa
Definition
  • agonist for dopamine
  • for Parkinsons disease
Term
Adderall
Definition
  • agonist for dopamine and norepinephrine
  • for ADHD
Term
Ritalin
Definition
  • Agonist for dopamine but mostly norepinephrine
  • for ADHD
Term
Aricept
Definition
  • agonist for acetylcholine
  • for Alzheimers
Term
Prozac
Definition
  • agonist for serotonin
  • for depression, OCD
Term
Seroquel
Definition
  • antagonist for dopamine and serotonin
  • for Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Term
Revia
Definition
  • antagonisty for opioids
  • for alcholoism and opoid addiction
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