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25 Cards in this Set
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Psychology |
Scietific study of behavior and mental processes |
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Neurons |
Individual cells that are the smallest unit of nervous system |
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Axon |
Long fibers that carries outgoing messages |
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Dendrites |
Short fibers that pick up incoming mesages |
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Sensory neurons |
Carry messages to spinal cord or brain |
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Glial cells |
Cells that instulate & support neurons, gives nourishment |
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Neural plasticity |
The ability to change in response to eperience |
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Hind brain |
Area of the brain that contains the medulla |
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Association areas |
Areas of cerebal cortex where messages from seperate senses are combined into meaningful impressions |
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Motor neurons |
Carry messages from spinal cord or brain to muscle glands |
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Polarization |
Condition of neuron when inside is negatively charged relative to outside |
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Primary motor complex |
Section of frontal lobe resposible for voluntary movement |
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Aphasias |
Impairment of the ability to use or understand language as a result of brain damage |
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Hormones |
Chemical substances released by glands that help regulate bodily activities |
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Genes |
Elememts that control transmission of traits |
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Chromosomes |
Paira of threadlike bodies, containes genes |
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Polgenic inheritance |
Procces of several genes interact to produce a certain trait |
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Natural selection |
Proposed by darwin, theory of evolution |
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Wade nobles |
Black scholar who termed "black psychology" that uses african psychology as its model |
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W.E. Cross |
Leading Theorist on black identify, also created the 5 stages of blacks from weak negro to strong & postive image of blacks |
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Scientific racism |
The attempt to develop a spurious justification for the claim that some racial groups are superior to others |
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Thalmus |
In the forebrain region that relays and translates incoming messages from the sense receptors, except those for smell |
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Werniches area |
Located in the left hemi, this area is involved in understanding of spoken or written language.damage to this area affects comprehession of language |
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Broca area |
Located on the left hemi, damage to this area affects the ability to talk |
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Johann freidrich blumebach |
Coined the word "race", classify humans in 5 division "Caucasian, Malayan, Ethiopian, American, Mongolian. |
