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32 Cards in this Set
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Psychology Def. |
The science of behavior and mental processes |
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Perspectives for describing psychological phenomena |
Cognitive, Behavioral, Neuroscience, Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Evolutionary |
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Hindsight Bias |
The mind builds its current wisdom around what we have already told |
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Case Study |
examines one individual group in depth in the hope of revealing things true if us all |
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Naturalistic Observation |
observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without controlling the situation |
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The Control Group |
a group that is the same in every way except the one variable we are changing |
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The Limbic System |
manages emotions and connects thought to the body. coordinates emotion, basic drives such as hunger and sex, and formation of episodic memories |
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The Medulla |
controls the most basic functions such as heartbeat and breathing |
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The Pons |
help coordinate automatic and unconscious movement |
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Thalamus |
sensory router. all sensory messages, except smell, are routed through the thalamus on the way to the cortex |
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Reticular Formation |
enables alertness |
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Cerebellum |
help coordinate voluntary movement such as playing a sport |
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The Hippocampus |
processes conscious, episodic memories |
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Amygdala |
consists of two lima bean sized neural clusters, helps process emotions, especially fear and aggression |
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Hypothalamus |
regulates body temp. and ensures adequate food and water intake and involved in sex drive |
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The Cerebral Cortex |
wrinkled part of brain that has 20 bil. neurons |
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Frontal Lobe |
involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgment |
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Parietal Lobes |
contains sensory cortex |
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Occipital Lobes |
include the visual areas, they receive visual information from the opposite visual view |
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Temporal Lobes |
auditory senses |
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Plasticity |
refers to the brain's ability to modify itself after some types of injury or illness |
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Left Hemisphere |
contains thoughts and logic, details, language, and calculation |
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Right Hemisphere |
contains feelings and perception |
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What does parenting have an influence on? |
Religion, beliefs, values, manners, attitudes, politics, and habits |
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Evolutionary Psychology |
the study of how evolutionary past help explain the origin and function of the human mind, traits, and behaviors |
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Sensation |
the process by which our sensory receptors and represent stimulus energies from our enviornment |
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Perception |
the process of organizing and interpeting sensory information |
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Bottom Up Processing |
taking sensory info and then assembling and integrating it |
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Top Down Processing |
using models, ideas, and expectations to interpret sensory info |
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Retina |
the light sensitive innersurface of the eye containing receptor rods and cones |
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Optic Nerve |
Carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain |
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Fovea |
central point in the retina around which the eye's cones cluster |
