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What is Reliability?
The tendency of a test to produce the same score again and again each time its given to the same people.
What is Validity?
The degree to which a test actually measures what it's suppost to measure.
what is a branchlike structure that recieves messages from other neurons?
dendrites
what part of the nervous system includes the brain and the spinal cord
the central nervous system.
what is the peripheral-somatic nervous system?
All nerves and neruons that are not contained in the brain and spinal cord but that run through the body itself.
This is a divison of the peripheral-somatic nervous system?and controls all of the involuntary muscles,organs and glands?
autonomic nervous system
Parasympathetic division is?
Part of the ANS that restores the body to normal functioning of the organs and glands.
this part of the autonamic nervous system is responsible for reacting to stressful events and bodily arousals?
Sympathetic division
what is the process by which activities are started,directed, and continued. so that physical and psychological needs or wants are met.
Motivation
this is the tendency of the body to maintain a steady state
Homeostasis
what type of motivation in which a person performs an action because the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in some internal manner.
intrinsic motivation
This type of motivation in which a person performs an action because it leads to an outcome that is seprate from or external to the person.
Extrinsic motives
what is the name for the physiological reaction and the emotion are assumed to occur at the same time?
Cannon-Bard theory of emotions
what is the theroy that leads to the labeling of an emotion?
James-lange theory of emotion.
what is a sample?
group of subjects selected from a larger population of subjects randomly
what are the descriptive methods?
predict,explain,control and describe
this is to sensative to pressure or temputure?
pain
this is the minium change in stimulas detected half the time?
difference threshold
things like sex, food, shelter and water are what?
primary motives
these are novel stimuli, arousel are called what?
secondary motives or psychogocail motives
Maslow said these are our heiarchy of needs?
1.biological needs
2.safety
3.belonging
4.self-esteem
5.self-actualization
a thought interpretation is a what?
cognitive
a postive or negative feeling resulting from perception is caleed what?
emotion
This system consists of the brain and the spinalcord?
Central Nervous System
This system follows orders from the central nervous system?
peripheral nervous system
This system controls movements?
Somatic Nervous System
This regulates viscearl organs?
Autonamic Nervous System
This keeps the body relaxed and relaxes body after stress?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
This Activates the body to fight or flight?
Sympathetic nervous system
What part of the body doesn't feel pain?
The Brain
What part of the brain regulates breathing and the heart?
HinderBrain
this part of the brain regulates emotion and memory?
Hippocampus
This part of the brain regulates relay sensory information?
Thalamis
what lobe deals with vision?
occipatal lobe
what lobe proceses balance?
Temporal lobe
this lobe is where the thought process is interpatation?
frontal lobe
this lobe is where movement and touch is processed?
pariatle lobe
this part of brain is incharge of involuntary movement?
cerebellum
this is released when under huge amounts of stress?
Endorphins
this has a extra threshold to pain?
oxytocin
this is released when under huge amounts of stress?
Endorphins
this has a extra threshold to pain?
oxytocin
this is released when under huge amounts of stress?
Endorphins
this has a extra threshold to pain?
oxytocin