psychology themes and variations Flashcards
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| 5058940058 | Biopsychosocial Model | Behavior and mental processes best understood as a combination of biological, physical, and cultural factors. |  | 0 |
| 5058948095 | split brain person | Someone who's corpus callous has been severed | 1 | |
| 5058950744 | proximity | associate things close together in space | 2 | |
| 5058954478 | Central nervous system | brain and spinal cord |  | 3 |
| 5058960831 | Figure ground | what you focus on is the figure and everything else is in the background | 4 | |
| 5058964483 | sensation | getting info from the world into the brain (sensory process) | 5 | |
| 5058971715 | Binocular (rentinal) Dispority (3D perception) | each eye gets slightly different images of the object if close and if it is far it's identical | 6 | |
| 5058978255 | Amygdala | Involved in the ability to recognize and emotionally change memory | 7 | |
| 5058985639 | mind | mental processes and events including thoughts, perceptions, motivations, memories, and feelings. | 8 | |
| 5058989408 | Terminal Button | the part at which chemical communications are sent out to others neurons |  | 9 |
| 5058994695 | Broca's Area | located on the left side of the frontal lobe. Can understand what people are saying but not speak back. (Expressive Aphasia) |  | 10 |
| 5059004472 | Pons | Serves as bridge between cerebellum | 11 | |
| 5059018038 | Levels of analysis and perspectives | Biological Behavioral Cognitive Emotional Sociocultural | 12 | |
| 5059022668 | Sympathetic | Stomach: Inhibits digestion | 13 | |
| 5059025494 | Sympathetic | Eyes: dialates pupils and inhibits tears |  | 14 |
| 5059027842 | Survey | descriptive behavior, attitudes, or opinion of a large group of people | 15 | |
| 5059029904 | Closure | mind can fill in gaps to make whole (ex. shapes) |  | 16 |
| 5059033705 | Action potentials | cell has a resting potential and then when it has enough excitatory signals depolarization occurs and an electrical charge that goes down the length of an axon |  | 17 |
| 5059040400 | Positive correlations | both categories in a study vary in same direction | 18 | |
| 5059045232 | Cerebral Cortex | Structure and functions Left and right hemispheres connected by corpus callosum divided in to lobes thoughts and planning make sense of what you see |  | 19 |
| 5059050470 | Synaptic receptors | receptors are embedded in the membrane of dendrites to receive chemical messages from the terminals of other neurons | 20 | |
| 5059075120 | serotonin | effects mood, sleep, appetite, and sexual behaviors | 21 | |
| 5059079365 | Forebrain | Includes: limbic system, thalamus and cerebral cortex | 22 | |
| 5059086458 | Hypothalamus | feeding, fighting, fleeing, and ****ing | 23 | |
| 5059090748 | Reticular Formation | sleep and arousal | 24 | |
| 5059092372 | Motor Cortex | Located in the frontal lobe. moves your body |  | 25 |
| 5059097178 | Frontal lobe | problem solving, reasoning, and organizing |  | 26 |
| 5059101151 | Synaptic cleft | space between axon and dendrite | 27 | |
| 5059102686 | Temporal lobe | processes auditory information |  | 28 |
| 5059106222 | Sympathetic | Salivary gland: inhibits salivation |  | 29 |
| 5059111220 | Nucleus Accumbens | Reward center, dopamine, how much effort you are willing to spend to get pleasure. | 30 | |
| 5059119056 | Occipital lobe | Basic interpretation of visuals (crosses over in brain) | | 31 |
| 5059126129 | Thalumus | Sensory switch board: everything taken in by senses is relayed here except smell | 32 | |
| 5059143645 | Basal ganglia | regulates body movements | 33 | |
| 5059152143 | Excitatory Neurotransmittors | Ex. Dopamine: learning, memory, body movements,and brain's reward system (frontal lobe) | 34 | |
| 5059153170 | Inhibitory Neurotransmittors | Ex. Serotonin and norepinephrine: anti-depressant usually doesn't work | 35 | |
| 5059171220 | Negative correlation | vary in opposite directions | 36 | |
| 5059174009 | Hippocampus | invovled in learning and memory processes | 37 | |
| 5059177026 | Case study | describing and observing behaviors of an individual you want to study They know you are studying them | 38 | |
| 5059189230 | cell body | where energy is generated and information collected and integrated for transmission to other neurons |  | 39 |
| 5059195557 | Texture gradient | closer something is you can see more spaces and if it is farther its denser |  | 40 |
| 5059220873 | Sympathetic | increases heart rate | 41 | |
| 5059223905 | Autonomic | Parasympathetic and sympathetic | 42 | |
| 5059228406 | Peripherial Nervous System (PNS) | Autonomic (automatic) and somatic (voluntary movements) | 43 | |
| 5059352381 | common fate and region | things with same border grouped together | 44 | |
| 5063862040 | hindbrain | Medulla, pons, cerebral cortex, reticular formation | 45 | |
| 5063864781 | familiar size/ relative size | The bigger they are in a photo the closer they are | 46 | |
| 5063866066 | Scientific goals | Description/ classify, prediction, exploration, control | 47 | |
| 5063867439 | Perception | Organization, identification, and interpretation of a sensation in order to form a mental representation (brain process) | 48 | |
| 5063868579 | Similarity | Grouping similar things together | 49 | |
| 5063869895 | Medulla | sensory and motor neurons cross over regulates all autonomic functions extremely important die if you damage it right side of body is controlled by left side of brain | 50 | |
| 5063870152 | Behavior | Observable measurable activities | 51 | |
| 5063872232 | Reruptake | Chemical channel and a chemical pump sucks the extras back in (antidepressants can inhibit this) | 52 | |
| 5063874332 | Haze | the clearer an image is the closer its perceived | 53 | |
| 5063876327 | Sympathetic | Blood vessels and organs: dilates blood vessels | 54 | |
| 5063876328 | Simplicity | Finding an easier way of doing things | 55 | |
| 5063877840 | Axon | conveys info from the cell body to the other neurons within the nervous system or the muscles and glands | 56 | |
| 5063879552 | Wernicke's Area | Involved in speech and langauge(can speak but not understand) receptive aphasia in left hemisphere | 57 | |
| 5063879553 | Sympathetic | Sex organs: stimulates male ejaculation | 58 | |
| 5063882744 | Sympathetic | Bladder and intestines: inhibits elimination of waste | 59 | |
| 5063882745 | Myelin Sheath | Fatty substance surrounding the axon of certain neurons. speeds the transmission of neural impluses | 60 | |
| 5063884558 | Sympathetic | Lungs: Increases Respiration | 61 | |
| 5063884559 | Endorphins | Neuropeptides: a pain represent | 62 | |
| 5063886572 | naturalistic observation | describe what a certain behavior is and take note without the person knowing you are taking note | 63 | |
| 5064034437 | Scientific Method | Make an observation form hypothesis test hypothesis by collecting data analyze data draw conclusions make research public | 64 | |
| 5063888166 | Participant Observation | observing what a group does by joining them without them knowing you're observing them | 65 | |
| 5063890733 | Experiment | needs a random assignment use of control conditions control over confounding variables | 66 | |
| 5063893443 | Relative height to horizon | the higher something is the farther away its perceived | 67 | |
| 5063895501 | Parasympathetic | Heart: Inhibits heart rate | 68 | |
| 5063897387 | Monoamines | dopamine/ serotonin/ norepinephrine | 69 | |
| 5063897388 | linear perspective | as parellel lines go farther away the closer they seem to be | 70 | |
| 5063902818 | Parietal Lobe | involved in different memory processes, spatial tasks, putting things together | 71 | |
| 5063903851 | Parasympathetic | Lungs: slows respiration | 72 | |
| 5063903852 | Dendrites | Receive chemical messages from other neurons | 73 | |
| 5063905650 | Parasympathetic | Bladder and intestines: stimulates elimination of waste | 74 | |
| 5063908363 | Nonepinephrine | attention, mood, and memory | 75 | |
| 5063910176 | Dopamine | Body movement regulation (journey to pleasure) | 76 | |
| 5063912904 | Parasympathetic | Eyes: pupil constrict, stimulates tears | 77 | |
| 5063912905 | Nucleus | where energy for the cell is generated and waste products eliminated | 78 | |
| 5063915351 | Interposition | image overlays to figure closeness | 79 | |
| 5063915352 | Limbic System | Consists of amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, and nucleus accumbens | 80 | |
| 5063918031 | Parasympathetic | Salivary gland: stimulates salivation | 81 | |
| 5063918032 | Texture | smooth and rough linked together | 82 | |
| 5063921784 | Motor Sensory Intermotor | three types of neurons | 83 | |
| 5063923574 | Motor Neurons | CNS to body: make muscles move (efferent) | 84 | |
| 5063924896 | Sensory Neuron | From the body to the brain (afferent) | 85 | |
| 5063927827 | Parasympathetic | Stomach: stimulates digestion | 86 | |
| 5063929223 | Parasympathetic | Sex organs: stimulates genital arousal | 87 | |
| 5063929241 | Interneurons | only in CNS (connect the sensory and motor neurons) (reactions) | 88 | |
| 5063932880 | Parasympathetic | Blood vessels and organs: constricts blood vessels | 89 |