Psych 101

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What is a Case study?

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Case studies are observations of a single or small group of people. They are a type of descriptive research.

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What are naturalistic observations? Give an example.

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Observations made of a natural organism in its natural environment; from a far

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William Wundt

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Early Pyschologist, first psychological laboratory, Ball drop experiment

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William James

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Wanted to focus on why things happen, functionalist

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Ivan Pavlov

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Russian Physiologist, conditioned reflex

salivating dog study

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What is GABA?

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Gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, is a neurotransmitter that sends chemical messages through the brain and the nervous system, and is involved in regulating communication between brain cells. The role of GABA is to inhibit or reduce the activity of the neurons or nerve cells.

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What types and where does aphasia occur?

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Expressive aphasia involves difficulty in conveying thoughts through speech or writing. The patient knows what he wants to say, but cannot find the words he needs.

Receptive aphasia involves difficulty understanding spoken or written language.

Broca is related to speechproduction

Wernicksis related to speechcomprehension.

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What is Trepanation?

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Old practice, cutting into skull to look at brain

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MRIs?

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Imaging of soft tissue

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PET Scans?

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give accurate imaging of living vs dead neurons

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Endocrine System?

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The endocrine system is made up of the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, pancreas, ovaries (in females) and testicles (in males)

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Fovea?

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a small depression in the retina of the eye where visual acuity is highest. The center of the field of vision is focused in this region, where retinal cones are particularly concentrated.

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Ganglion Cells?

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Ganglion cells collect visual information in their dendrites from bipolar cells and amacrine cells and transmit it to the brain through out their axon to the brain.

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Visual Agnosia

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seeing things but not being able to piece them together

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Visual Spectrum?

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400-700

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The Opponent Process Theory?

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visual stimuli is analyzed in terms of their opposite colors

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feature detector neurons?

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neurons that fire when a very specific stimuli is present

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Transduction?

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when an outside stimuli is turned into a neural impulse

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What is thefunction of glialcells?

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Important helpercells that nourishand protectneurons.

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DeepBrain Stimulation?

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treats depression.

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What comprises of theLimbic System?

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Hippocampus, amygdala,hypothalamus

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What arephotorecptors?

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Photoreceptors arelocated in the retina andthey detect light. Rodsdetect shades and aresensitive to high light andcones detect color anddetail and are sensitive tolow light.

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What is thesuprachiasmaticnucleus?

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Master conductorof all bodilycycles. It istriggered bylight.

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Gate control theory?

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The gate control theory of pain asserts that non-painful input closes the "gates" to painful input, which prevents pain sensation from traveling to the central nervous system.