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what is ethics   that our research is always evolving.  
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APA stands for?   American Psycholical Association  
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Rights of Research Participants:   informed consent. vulnerable groups.  
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condifential   same place cannot put your name  
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annonymous   no name on survey just a number.  
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aggregate data   avg. score not identified. have right to withdream without penalty  
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deception   do if your told.  
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what color is the brain? what size?   whiteish color. fits in plam of your hand.  
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lobes increase what?   surface area of brain.  
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brain is the what?   most incased organ in body  
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neuropsychology   90's decade of brain  
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complexity   interprets info. quickly  
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integration   choke on something  
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plasticity   ablitiy for modification and change  
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electrochemical transmission   how we send messages  
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CNS   brain and spinal cord info. processing center. sends messages in and otu  
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PNS   autonomic and somatic  
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autonomic   internal organs: you have little control over  
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somatic:   body sends impules to your senses and skeletal muscles. voulnatrt control over.  
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autonomic has two parts:   sypatheic and parasympathetic  
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sympatheic   arouses the body: if a bear jumps out you run away. heart beats faster  
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parasympathetic   calms after arousal  
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CNS is at what part of body and is incased in?   center of body and incased in bone  
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sensory nerves (afferent)   sends impused to the brain  
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motor nerves (efferent)   sents info. out to muscles. exit brain  
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interneurons(neural)   activity within the brain  
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neurons are what?   basic unit of N.S. the bits and threads. specialized for processing information  
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how many neurons are there?   100 billion  
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glial cells "jello" helps 3 things:   1. helps support2. helps communicate3. nursises neurons  
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dendrites   gets message  
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axon   sends message and resends another message  
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nerual impulse   one end of neuron to other as a brief impules or wave of electricity  
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action potential   brief wave of + electrical charge that flows down the axon during transmission  
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can there be a half of a transmission?   NO. all or none  
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refreactory peroid   one neuron fies until it resets itself; resting peroid; reset.  
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what is chemical called   neurotransmitters  
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chem. is released from vesicles in the what>   terminal buttons on axons  
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neurotransmitters flow into the what   synaptic cleft of gap  
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nt connect to recptor cites on the?   dendrites  
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how many nt?   over 50  
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each nt has specific _____ and _____   function and receptor cite  
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Acetylcholine (ACH)   stimulates the firing of neurons and involved in the action of mucles, learning and memory. blocking results in paralysis.  
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Gamma Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)   inhibits the firing of neurons. helps control preciseness of the signal being carried from one neuron to other. anxiety.  
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serotonin   inhibits. regulates sleep, mood, attention, and learning. low levels= depression  
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norepinephrin   usually inhibits firing of neurons in CNS but excites heart muscles, intestines, and urogential tract. controls alertness.  
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dopamine   inhibits. controls voluntary movements and affects sleep. mood attention and learning.  
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endorphins   natural opiates simulate firing.. they shield body from pain and increase feelings or pleasure.  
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most drugs that infulence behavior do it by interfering with how neurotransmitters work; others mimic or increase the effcts of nt    
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alochol inhibits what? resulting in   serotoinin. depression  
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morphine mimics?   endorphins. pleasurability  
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what are neural networks   cluters of neurons that are interconnected to process information  
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nerual netwroks ditributes what?   attention, memory and thinking across wide range of connected nerurons  
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what determines how well you remember something   the strenth of connection  
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lowest part of the brain   hind brain  
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hind brain inclues   medulla, pons, cerebellum  
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medulla controls   breathing, reflexes, posture  
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cerebellum   motor coord.  
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pons controls   involved in sleep and wakefullness  
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nerve-fibers travel thro. midbrain connecting____ and ____ portions of brain   higher and lower  
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reticular formation is what   sterotypical behaviors like walking, sleeping, turning to locate sound.  
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brainstem connects what   spinal cord with brain. encases reticular information. regul. breathing, heartreate, BP  
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highest level of brain   forebrain  
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limbic system   memory and emtoion  
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thalamus   a relay station to sort, input, and send messages  
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basal ganglia   controls cord. voluntary movements  
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hypothalamus   regulates eating, drinking, sex  
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cerebral cortex   thinking and planning  
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cerebral cortext is what % of brain   80  
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largest part of brain   cerebral cortext  
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corpus callosum   the havles are connect by thick band on tissue/neurons. two hemispheres of cc.  
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frontal lobe   judgement, intelligence, personality  
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parietal   motor control, physical body movements  
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occipital   vision  
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temporal   auditory, lang. processing, memory  
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sensory cortext processes info about   body sensation  
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motor cortex pro. info about   motor movemnts  
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sensation   recieving stimulus enegry from external world  
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receptor cells register a what   stiumus  
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stimulus enegry is converted into an electrochemical impule called   trasduction  
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afferent neurons trasmit info from ____ to _____   organ to brain  
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perception   oranizing and interpreting info from the sensory organs to give it meaning  
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attention   selective program- you can choose what info you ignore and pay attention to  
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absolute threshold   minimum stimulation that is detectable 50% of the time  
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Difference Threshold   we are tuned to detect when stimuli changes.  
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JND= just noticible difference   50% detectable  
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Webers law states   2 simuli msut differ by a constant proportion for different to be noticiable  
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