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65 Cards in this Set
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Glutamate
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excitatory neurotransmitters
assist in learning/memory MS-glutamate eats away at myelin sheath causing action potential to slow |
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GABA
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decrease anxiety
inhibitory neurotransmitters too little-epilepsy-can't stop uncontrollable firing of action potential alcohol and anxiety medications bond with gaba receptors |
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Peripherial Nervous System
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connects the central nervous system to the rest of the body
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Central Nervous System
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Brain and spinal cord
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Neural Networks
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neuron clusters
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EEG
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electroencephalogram
amplified recordings of electrical waves measured by electrodes |
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PET
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positron emmision tomography
visual display of brain activity-detects radioactive form of glucose |
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(f)MRI
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magnetic resonance imaging
uses magnetic fields to distinguish types of brain tissue (f)MRI-measures blood flow change |
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Medulla Oblongata
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controls heartbeat and breathing
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Broca's area
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controls speech muscles-motor cortex
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Angular's Area
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transforms visual representation into auditory code
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Endorphins
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pain killer
cause euphoria |
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Serotonin/Norepinephrine
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too little-depression
affects mood |
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Dopamine
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too much-Schitzophrenia
too little-Parkinson's (poor motor/shaking) "reward center"-drug addiction |
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Acetylcholine
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learning/memory
too little-alzheimers (memory loss) |
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4 kinds of attachment
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secure
insecure avoidant insecure anxious uninvolved |
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Secure Attachment
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use mom as secure base from which to explore
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Insecure Avoidant
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explores easily
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Insecure Anxious
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clings to mother
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Secure-later in life
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more trusting, self confident, see others as dependable, see self as deserving of love
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Deprivation of Attachment
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neglect, abuse, frightened easily, unable to develop speech
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Right Brain Functions
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non-verbal tasks
facial recognition, music, patterns, movement, non-verbal memory, direction, distance |
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Left Brain Functions
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verbal tasks
words, letters, language, verbal memory, speech, reading, writing, arithmatci |
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Cognitive Development
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mental activities associated with thinking, knowing and remembering
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Schema's
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"mold" we pour our experiences into to help us categorize and understand things
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Assimilation
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incorporate new experiences into current understanding/schema's
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Accommodation
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experiences that cause us to change a schema we understand.
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Stages of Cognitive Development
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Sensorimotor
Preoperational Concrete Operational Formal Operational |
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Sensorimotor Stage
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0-2
experience world through senses/actions |
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Preoperational Stage
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2-7
recognize words/images theory of mind egocentric |
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Concrete Operational
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7-11
thinking logically mathematics |
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Formal Operational
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12-adulthood
abstract reasoning logic |
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Plasticity
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brains ability to change/reorganize based on experience
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Agonist Molocule
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excites
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Antagonist Molocule
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inibits
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Nucleus Accumbens
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reward center
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Types of Children Temperament
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Easy- +mood, +socialbility, +adaptability
Difficult- -mood, -sociability, slow to adapt Slow to Warm Up- low intensity, slow to adapt, low activity |
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9 Traits of Assessment Temperament
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RAMPS SAID
Regularity Activity Mood Persistence Sociability Sensitivity Adaptability Intensity Distractability |
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Ways to Study the Brain
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case studies
EEG PET (f)MRI |
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Ways to Control Factors in Experiment
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random assignment
double blind control group |
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Operational Definition
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statement of procedure to define research variables
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Erickson's Stages of Development
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Infancy
Preschooler Elementary Schooler Adolescence Young Adulthood Middle Adulthood Later Adulthood |
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Infancy
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trust/mistrust
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Toddlerhood
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Autonomy/Shame and Doubt
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Preschooler
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Initiative/Guilt
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Elementary Schooler
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Competence/Inferiority
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Adolescence
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Identity/Role Confusion
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Young Adulthood
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Intimacy/Isolation
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Middle Adulthood
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Generativity/Stagnation
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Late Adulthood
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Integrity/Despair
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Identity Moratorium
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no commitment
crisis experienced |
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Identity Diffusion
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no commitment
no crisis |
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Identity Foreclosure
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commitment made
no crisis |
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Identity Achievement
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commitment made
crisis experienced |
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Thalmus
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directs message to sensory area of cortex
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Cerebellum
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controls learning and motor task
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Amygdala
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controls emotion
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Hypothalmus
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feeding, fleeing, fighting, fucking
4 letter prefix, 4 f's |
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Hippocampus
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process for memory
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Cerebral Cortex
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frontal lobe
parietal lobe occipital lobe temporal lobe |
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Frontal Lobe
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motor cortex
planning, judgement, focus, personality, moral reasoning |
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Parietal Lobe
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somatosensory cortex
detect movement, spatial and mathematical reasoning |
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Occipital Lobe
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visual cortex
process visual information |
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Temporal Lobe
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auditory cortex
process auditory info |
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Neurotransmitters
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chemicals that travel across synapse to generate action potential
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