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Primary functions of the cerebellum
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Allows the body to execute smooth movements and regulates muscle and posture
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Movement
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What are the crucial functions handled by the brainstem?
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Medulla, Reticular Formation, Pons
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3 things
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What are the neurons and what are it's 3 parts?
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A cell that conducts impules through the nervous system Cell body, Dendrites, and Axon
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What's a Glutamate
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Primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain
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What's a GABA
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Main inhibitory neurotransmitter
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What's a Serotonin
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Plays an important part in regulating mood, sleep, aggresion, impulsivity, and appetite
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What's a Norepinephrine
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Affecting eating and sleep
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What are some of the ways neurotransmitters affest behavior and what are some of the major neurotransmitter?
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Regulates the actions of glands and muscles. Affects learning and memory
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what are Neurotransmitters and what role do they play in the transmission of signals from one nueron to another?
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One or more large groups of chemical substances that help messages transmit between nuerons.
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How do nuerons communicate? How do they send and recieve their messages?
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Cells in the brain, spinal cord, and muscles generate electrical potentials these tiny electric charges play a part in all bodily functions
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What is a Synaptic Cleft?
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Tiny fluid filled gaps that seperate axon terminals from recieving nuerons
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What is a Synapse?
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The juction where axon terminal of a sending nueron communications with a recieving nueron across the synaptic cleft.
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The lobes of the brain
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Frontal - Motor
Parietal - Touch Occipital - Vision Temporal - Auditory |
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What is Consciousness
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Awareness of one's own perceptions, thoughts, feelings, sensations, and external enviroment
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What is Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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What is the main advantage of the experimental method
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The only research that can identify with cause - effect relationships
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What is the difference between the independent variable and the depenpendent variable
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Independent - equal to the treatment
Dependent - The result |
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How does the experimental group differ from the control group
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Experimental uses idependent variable (treatment)
Control is not exposed to the treatment |
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What is selection bias and what techniques do researchers use to control for it
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The assignment of participants to experimental and control groups in such a way that systematic differences among the groups are present at the beginning
Random assignment |
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Acetylcholine
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Plays a role in learning, memory, and rapid eye movements (REM) sleep and causes the skeletal muscle fibers to contract
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What is the placebo effect and how do researchers control for it?
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When a person's response to a treatment or reponse on the dependent variable in an experiment is due to expectations regarding the treatment rather than to the treatment itself. Placebo
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What is the correlatonal method and when is it used?
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A research method used to establish the degree of relationship between two characteristics, events or behaviors.
Predicting the probable performance of a group |
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What does reliability mean?
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Constantly fin nearly the same results upon re-testing
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What does validity mean?
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Test ability to measure what it's suppose to measure
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What does replication mean?
What is it done in research? |
Repeating a study with different participants and perferably a different investigation to verify research finding.
To verify researcg findings. |
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What is meta-analysis?
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A complex statistical technique used to combine the results from many studies on the same topic in order to determine the degree to which a hypothesis can be suported
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Is the diversity of the us population reflected in psychological research?
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No cause of where the research is done.
White middle class male college students |
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What is the scientific method?
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Orderly, systematic procedures that researchers follow.
Identify a research problem. design a study to investigate the problem, collect and analyze date, draw conclusions, and communicate their findings. |
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Is Psychology science or common sense?
Why? Has this always been the case? |
A science cause of the scientific method and no this hasn't.
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What is a theory?
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A general principle or set of principles proposed to explain how a number of seperate facts are related.
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what is a naturalistic observation and what are some of it's benefitss and limitations?
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Observe and record behavior in a natural setting without attempting to influence or control it.
Benefits - Study behavior in normal settings Limitations - Researchers must wait for events to occur |
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What are 4 goals of psychology?
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Description - describing something
Explanation - why something occured Prediction - specify the conditions under which a behavior or events is likely to occur. Control - prevents unwanted occurances or to bring about desired outcomes |
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What is the case study method and for what purposes is it well suited
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One or more people are studied in great depth over a long period of time.
Studying people who have uncommon psychological or physiological disorders or brain injuries. |
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Hypothalamus
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Maintains all bodily functions excpet bood pressure, heat rythm, and breathing
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Thalamus
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Realy station for information flowing into and out of hiher brian centers.
Production of language, regulates sleep patterns |
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Glial Cells
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Specialized cells in the brain and spinal cord that form the myelin sheath and perform many other important functions
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Endorphins
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Chemicals produced naturally by the brain that reduces pain and positively affects mood
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What are the 2 parts of the nervous system
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Central Nervous System
Peripheral nervous system |
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Left hemishere
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Controls the right side of the body
Helps with Logic, language |
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Right Hemisphere
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Controls movement and feeling on the left side of the body
Creativity and intuition Visual spatial tasks |
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