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| What are the three types of neurons? | show 🗑
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| What is the function of the sensory neurons? | show 🗑
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| What is the function of the motor neurons? | show 🗑
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| What is the function of the interneurons? | show 🗑
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| show | central; peripheral
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| What parts make up the central nervous system? | show 🗑
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| show | somatic; autonomic
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| show | skin; muscles; joints
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| What parts send signals back and forth to the CNS in the autonomic nervous system? | show 🗑
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| What are the two sections of the autonomic nervous system? | show 🗑
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| What is resting membrane potential? | show 🗑
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| What is action potential? | show 🗑
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| Excitatory signals? | show 🗑
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| show | hyperpolarize cell membrane, decreasing firing probability
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| show | drugs and toxins that enhance actions of neurotransmitters
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| Antagonists? | show 🗑
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| show | acetylcholine; epinephrine; norepinephrine; serotonin; dopamine; GABA; glutamate; endorphins
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| Main functions of acetylcholine? | show 🗑
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| show | energy
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| Main functions of norepinephrine? | show 🗑
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| show | emotional states; impulsiveness; dreaming
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| show | reward; motivation; motor control over voluntary movement
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| Main functions of GABA? | show 🗑
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| Main functions of glutamate? | show 🗑
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| Main functions of endorphins? | show 🗑
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| show | gamma-aminobutryric acid
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| Functions of Broca's area? | show 🗑
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| What does EEG stand for? | show 🗑
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| show | measures electrical activity in brain
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| show | controls survival; heart rate; breathing; swallowing; vomiting; urinating; orgasm
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| show | coordinated movement and balance
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| Functions of thalamus? | show 🗑
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| show | smell
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| show | regulation of bodily functions; temperature; rhythms; blood pressure; blood glucose; influences motivated behaviors
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| show | formation of memories
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| show | emotional response association; processing emotional info
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| Functions of basal ganglia? | show 🗑
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| show | outer layer of brain tissue
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| show | bridge of axons connecting hemispheres; allows flow of info
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| What are the four cerebral lobes? | show 🗑
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| Processes of occipital lobes? | show 🗑
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| show | touch; spatial relations
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| Processes of temporal lobes? | show 🗑
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| Processes of frontal lobes? | show 🗑
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| What is hemineglect? | show 🗑
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| Functions of prefrontal cortex? | show 🗑
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| What is split brain? | show 🗑
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| What is plasticity? | show 🗑
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| show | neurons that fire together, wire together
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| show | production of new neurons
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| show | detection of external stimuli and transmission of this info to brain
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| show | processing, organization, interpretation of sensory signals
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| What is bottom-up processing? | show 🗑
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| What is top-down processing? | show 🗑
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| What is transduction? | show 🗑
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| Stimuli for vision? | show 🗑
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| show | light sensitive rods and cones in retina
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| Pathways to brain for vision? | show 🗑
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| Stimuli for hearing? | show 🗑
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| Receptors for hearing? | show 🗑
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| show | auditory nerve
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| Stimuli for taste? | show 🗑
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| show | cells in taste buds on tongue
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| Pathways to brain for taste? | show 🗑
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| Stimuli for smell? | show 🗑
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| show | sensitive ends of olfactory mucous neurons in the mucous membranes
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| Pathways to brain for smell? | show 🗑
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| show | pressure on skin
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| show | sensitive ends of touch neurons in skin
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| Pathways to brain for touch? | show 🗑
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| show | minimum intensity of stimulation that must occur before you experience a sensation
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| show | minimum mount of change required for a person to detect a difference between two stimuli
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| show | signal detection theory
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| show | theory of perception based on the idea that detection of stimulus requires judgement
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| What are the four payoffs for SDT? | show 🗑
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| What is response bias? | show 🗑
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| What is sensory adaptation? | show 🗑
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| show | thin inner surface of back of eyeball
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| What is the function of the retina? | show 🗑
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| show | retinal cells that respond to low levels of light, resulting in black-and-white perception
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| show | retinal cells that respond to higher levels of light, resulting in color perception
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| show | center of the retina, where cones are densely packed; no rods
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| LSD affected neurotransmitters? | show 🗑
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| LSD process? | show 🗑
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| show | locus coeruleus (LC)
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| LSD effects? | show 🗑
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| Cocaine affected neurotransmitters? | show 🗑
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| Cocaine process? | show 🗑
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| Cocaine areas of brain? | show 🗑
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| show | voluntary movements
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| Alcohol affected neurotransmitters? | show 🗑
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| show | GABA receptors become more inhibitory; prevents glutamate from exciting cell
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| Alcohol effects? | show 🗑
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| show | dopamine
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| show | mimics dopamine; pushes dopamine out of cell and into synapse
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| Meth areas of brain? | show 🗑
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| Marijuana affected neurotransmitters? | show 🗑
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| Marijuana process? | show 🗑
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| show | removal of memories; slowing movement; relaxation
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| show | seortonin; dopamine
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| show | mimics serotonin; confuses receptors, making them function in reverse; serotonin trapped in synapse
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| show | indirect reward pathway
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| Ecstasy effects? | show 🗑
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| show | dopamine
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| Heroin process? | show 🗑
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| show | pain signals; stress response; emotional attachment
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| What is the definition of psychology? | show 🗑
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| show | Directly measurable
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| show | think; perceive; judge; learn; remember; internal
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| What is a theory? | show 🗑
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| What is a hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| show | ambiguous to measurable
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| show | descriptive; correlational; experiments
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| What is descriptive research? | show 🗑
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| What is correlational research? | show 🗑
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| show | how does X affect Y?
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| show | similarities in families
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| What are monozygotic twins? | show 🗑
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| show | ~50% gene share
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| What controls the withdrawal reflex? | show 🗑
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| What 8 parts make up the endocrine system? | show 🗑
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| show | large molecules not permitted; brain's only defense
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| show | REM sleep; breath; bridge between cerebellum and rest of brain
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| show | network of nerve fibers; activation and arousal
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| show | dopamine source; pathway to basal ganglia
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| show | amygdala; hippocampus
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| Do all axons have myelin sheaths? | show 🗑
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| show | provide insulation for neurons; remove waste and foreign bodies
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| What is postsynaptic potential (PSP)? | show 🗑
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| show | excitatory postsynaptic potential; positive shift
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| What is an IPSP? | show 🗑
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| What is an SSRI? | show 🗑
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| What is an agonist? | show 🗑
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| What is an antagonist? | show 🗑
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| show | raw data; stimulation of sense organs
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| show | making sense of it; selection; organization; interpretation of sensory input
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| What is absolute threshold? | show 🗑
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| show | smallest difference detectable 50% of the time
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| What is Weber's law? | show 🗑
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| show | light; rods and cones; bipolar cells; ganglion cells; optic nerve; optic chiasm; brain
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| What is trichromatic theory? | show 🗑
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| What are the 3 monocular cues? | show 🗑
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| What are the 2 binocular cues? | show 🗑
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| show | statistical; variance of phenotype accounted for by genotype
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