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Psych Unit 1A
Study Guide Defintions/Terms from Unit 1A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychology definition | the scientific study of behavior and mental events |
| john locke | developed concept of empiricism |
| empricism | born with no knowledge -> received through observation and experience |
| tabula rasa | means blank tablet |
| wilhelm wundt | the father of psychology developed introspection (method of self observation to collect information of the mind) |
| free association | technique for indirectly studying the unconscious process |
| central nervous system | brain, spinal cord, and brain stem |
| autonomic nervous system | controls involuntary muscles which breaks down into parasympathetic and sympathetic |
| sympathetic nervous system | expends energy |
| parasympathetic nervous system | conserves energy |
| fight or flight | 3 stages are alarm, resistance, and exhaustion; your CNS is ramped up preparing your body for fight or flight and physical signs are flushed skin, rapid heart rate and breathing, etc |
| frontal lobe | creativity and personality |
| temporal lobe | auditory reception and memory functions (sounds and language) |
| parietal lobe | sensory reception, touch, and motor signals are initiated here |
| occipital lobe | vision |
| cerebellum | "little brain", coordinates voluntary muscle movements |
| cerebral cortex | "outer covering", gray matter where our highest psychological processing takes place |
| corpus callosum | band of nerves which connect the 2 hemispheres together in a crisscross fashion |
| thalamus | sorts info and routes it to the appropriate areas in the higher brain, connects 1 part of brain to other |
| hypothalamus | regulates our body's internal environment |
| motor neurons | carry info from the brain signaling the muscles; descending nerve tracts |
| sensory neurons | carry info from the senses about the environment to the brain; ascending nerve tracts |
| snynapse | small space between an end bulb of 1 neuron and organ of muscle or dendrites |
| neurons | receive, carry, and transmit info through the nervous system in an electrochemical form |
| peripheral nervous system | nerves leading from the spinal cord and brain stem to various parts of the body (spinal nerves and cranial nerves) and broken down into somatic and autonomic nervous system) |
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