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Psych test one
things i dont know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Four big issues in psych | conscious vs unconscious, free will vs determinism, nature vs. nurture, universal vs individual |
| Neuroscience | How does the brain/biology affect behavior |
| evolutionary | how doe behaviors and mental processes affect survival |
| behavior genetics | how much do genes vs. environment affect who we are |
| psycho-dynamics | how do unconscious conflicts/drives determine behavior |
| behavioral | How do our experiences/environment affect our behavior |
| cognitive | how does info processing affect our behavior/thoughts |
| socio-cultural | how does behavior/thinking vary across cultures/situations |
| Case study | descriptive: Examine one person in depth, issues are atypicality and limited generalizability |
| observational research | descriptive: two types, unobtrusive and participant, issues are limited generalizability and difficult behaviors to observe |
| survey | descriptive: uses questions, issues include the unrepresented sample, question wording, and question order |
| axon terminals | store and eventually release nts |
| how does info travel within a neuron | action potential |
| resting state | -70mv |
| Acetylcholine | NT: movement, learning/memory |
| endorphines | NT: pain reliever, eating chocolate, athletics, stress |
| seratonin | NT:hunger/sleep, mood/arousal |
| dopamine | NT: movement/learning, attention/emotion |
| Gaba | NT: inhibits in relation to eating/sleeping |
| Central nervous system | Brain/spinal cord |
| Peripheral | autonomatic and somatic |
| Somatic | sensory nerves/motor nerves |
| autonomatic | sympathetic/parasympathetic |
| sensory neurons | body to brain |
| motor neurons | brain to body |
| inter neurons | motor to sensory |
| Brain stem | brathing, heart rate |
| pons | pathway from spinal cord to higher brain |
| medulla | sleep/wake/arousal |
| cerebellum "little brain" | movement/balance |
| thalamus/hypothalamus | switchboard for the brain |
| limbic system | amygdala(emotion)hippocampus(learning/memory) |
| cerebrum | sensation, movement, higher order behaviors |
| frontal lobe | (cerebral cortex)emotion, strategy |
| parietal lobe | (cerebral cortex)sends info, sensation |
| occipital lobe | (cerebral cortex) vision |
| temporal lobe | (cerebral cortex)language, auditory, memory |
| sensorimotor stage | birth-2 years, relate action - real world |
| preoperational stage | 2-7 years, object permanence, motor activities, |
| concrete operational stage | 7-12 years old, logical thought, understands change in appearance |
| formal operational stage | 12-0nwards, thinks in abstracts |
| preconventional | moral development, morality is judged on rewards/punishments |
| conventional | morality is judged on laws and rules |
| post conventional | morality is based on the abstract |