Extra psych test 1

Who published "The Animal Mind" and is famous for structuralism in psychology?

Who proposed a countering point of view called functionalism?

What influenced the modern fields of educational psychology, evolutionary psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology?

What focuses on the free will and human potential for growth and who was it developed by?

What emerged as the study of the biological bases of behavior?

Study of learning, memory, language, and problem solving?

What is seen as having an adaptive or survival value?

Medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for persons with mental disorders

psychiatrists or psychologists with special training in the theory of psychoanalysis

People who have academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, and research and may specialize in any one of a large number of areas with psychology

A way to determine facts and control the posibilities of error and bias when observing behavior

What are the 5 steps of the scientific method?

Observations in an artificial, controlled situation

detailed investigations of one subject

Asking standardized questions of large groups of people who represent a same of the population interest

cannot be used to prove cause and effect relationship.

measured behavior or response from the participant

variable that is deliberately manipulated by the experimenter to see if related changes occur in the behavior or responses of the participants and is given to the experimental group

recieves nothing or a placebo treatment

Complex network of cells that carries information to and from all parts of the body

What two types of cells is the brain made up of?

Which cell makes up 90% of the brain?

A neuron contains charged particles called what?

What manner does neurons fire?

What is at the end of the axon terminal that releases neurotransmitter chemicals into the synapse between one cell to the next?

What neurotransmitter is associated with sleep, mood and appetite?

What neurotransmitter is associated with Parkinsons and schizophrenia?

which neurotransmitter are the neural regulators that control our pain response?

What makes up the central nervous system?

all the neurons and nerves that are not part of the brain and spinal cord and that extend throughout the body

Two systems within the PNS?

Contains sensory pathway or neurons carrying messages to the CNS and the motor pathway, or neurons carrying messages from the CNS to the voluntary muscles.

Contain the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems

Above the medulla and acts as a bridge btw the lower part of the brain and the upper part. Influences sleep, arousal, and coordination.

Run through the medulla and pons and controls our selective attention and arousal.

Found at the base and back of the brain and coordinates fine, rapid movement, learned reflexes, posture, and muscle tone.

What are the structures of the brain that control emotion, learning, memory and motivation?

switching station that sends sensory info to the proper areas of the cortex.

Controls hunger, thirst, sleep, sexual behavior, sleeping and waking, and emotions. controls the pituitary gland.

Consists of the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, and the fornix.

part of the brain responsible for the storing of memories and remembering location of objects

Controls our fear responses and memory of fearful stimuli

What parts of the cortes control the different senses and the movement of the body?

outer covering of the cerebrum and consists of tightly packed layer of neurons

thick band of neurons that connects the two cerebral hemispheres

at the back and base of each hemisphere process vision and contains the primary visual cortex

top and back of cortex, contains somatosensory area(touch, temp, and body position)

Part of the cortex that contains the primary auditory area and involved in understanding language

Contain the motor cortex which controls the voluntary muscles and are where higher mental functions such as planning and decision making occur

responsible for fluent, understandable speech

responsible for understanding language in the left temporal lobe

comes from damage to the association areas on one side of the cortex. Someone with this condition will ignore info from the opposite side of the body or opposite visual field