Physiological Psychology Mk2

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What are rods for?

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Nightvision (low level illumination

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Central portion of the retina that's saturated with photoreceptors

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Phovocentrialis (phovia?)

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information from optic track first relayed to

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lateral giniculate nucleus

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alarming visual stimuli works on the

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superior colloculi

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info about position and movement in body that's sent to brain

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procreoception

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the motor homuncolus lies in the

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primary motor cortex

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impairment in the ability to execute skilled voluntary movement even when no motor paralysis

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apraxia

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basal ganglia activity correlates with activity in

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primary mortor cortex

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degenerative neurological disorder characterized by tremors at rest, involves dopamenergic depletion

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parkinsons

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leading authority on facial expressions

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paul eckman

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the dorsal and ventral visual streams are important for identifying

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what (identifying a boat as a boat)

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group of nuclei in medial anterior temporal lobe that are important for mediating fear

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amygdala

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left hemisphere strokes typically come with

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depressed mood

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which hemisphere is more important for expression

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right side

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aggression typically accompanies

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lowered seratonin levels

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condition consisting of temporal lobe disorders like aggression

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discontrol syndrome

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hallucinations experienced by schizophrenics

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audial

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ventricles of those with schizophrenia

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enlarged

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underactivation of frontal lobes

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hypofrontality hypothesis

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the capacity for long term memory is regarded as

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enormous, unlimited

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the amino acids involved with schizophrenia

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glutimate hypothesis

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drugs that are antagonitstic to dopamine

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anti-psychotics

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pet scans of depressed people show to have more activity in

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amygdala (medial orbit gyrus?)

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effectiveness of anti-depressents as said by the book

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aren't very effective, only mask problems

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intense irrational fear that causes avoidance behavior

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phobia

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memory that's stated or described

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declarative

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which is not a form of nondeclarative memory

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episodic

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korsokov's patients have shrunken

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mammilary bodies

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juggling short term thoughts

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working memory

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verbal memory relies on

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left hemisphere

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Recalling the name of your first pet would be

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episodic memory

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recalling the name of a president in WWI

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semantic memory

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animals that depend heavily on remembering things

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have enlarged hippocampi

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learning to mirror trace relies on

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motor functioning

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difficulty in recalling memories before amnesia is

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retrograde amnesia

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something about broca's aphaysia

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broca's aphaysia

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impaired comprehension and repetition but with intact speaking

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wernicke's aphaysia

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inability to identify objects

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anomia

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inability to recall recent information

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amnesia

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area for recognizing faces

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fusiform gyrus

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condition characterized by an inability to recognize faces

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prosopagnosia

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patient ignores objects on one side of body

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hemispacial neglect

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damage to pre-frontal cortex
orbofrontal damage =
fronto-medial =
dorsolateral =

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disinhibited
apathetic
dysexecutive

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HM's amnesia was confined to

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declarative memory

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order these, the portions of the brain that are used for reading something then speaking it

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1) primary visual cortex
2) angular gyrus
3) wernicke's
4) broca's
5) primary motor cortex