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13 Cards in this Set
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Neuroscience
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How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.
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Evolutionary
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How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes.
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Behavior Genetics
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How much our genes and our enviroment influence our individual differences.
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Psychodynamic
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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
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Behavioral
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How we learn observable responses
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Cognitive
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How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
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Social-Cultural
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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
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Acetylcholine (ACh)
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Enables muscle action, learning, and memory.
Undersupply - Alzheimer's |
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Dopamine
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Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion
Excess - schizophrenia Undersupply - Parkinson's |
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Serotonin
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Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
Undersupply - depression |
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Norepinephrine
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Helps control alertness and arousal
Undersupply - depress mood |
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GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
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A major inhibitory neurotransmitter
Undersupply - seizures, tremors, and insomnia |
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Glutamate
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A major excitatory neurotransmitter; involved in memory
Oversupply - migraines or seizures |