Psych Test Flash Cards

A trait associated with a gene that is only carried by the male or female parent.

The study of the effect of drugs/medication on the mind and behavior

Field of research and practice that focuses on how people's thoughts and behavior affect their health and disease.

Refers to the study of the degree to which psychological traits, such as sociability, aggression, and mental abilities are inherited.

Afferent Neurons - Carry information to the brain

Efferent Neurons - Carry information from the brain to the body

Aka Motor division, Carries info from various sense organs to of the body to the brain for processing. Including eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, joints, tendons ect.

Controls voluntary movement of our body.

"Visual Cortex"Strongly associated with the processing of visual stimuli received from the eye

Involved in coordination of voluntary movements and fine motor control, some learning and memory. Its the first thing to "Get drunk"

Involved in hearing, balance, and some parasympathetic functioning.

Involved in breathing and reflexive activity

Involved in arousal and alertness

Routes incoming sense stimuli to the appropriate parts of the brain and links the upper and lower part of the brain.

Underneath the thalamus. Involved in our motives and emotions. Also, plans a key role in regulation body temp, sleep, blood pressure and heart beat.

• Frontal Lobe
• Involved in generation of language
• Usually in the located in the left hemisphere

• Located in frontal lobe
• non-dedicated area of the brain to process information

• Located in frontal lobe
• regulates voluntary movement of the body

• Located in parietal lobe
• Involved in our experience of being touched

• Located in Temporal Lobe
• Involved in comprehension of language
• Usually located in left hemisphere

• Part of the forebrain
• Contains amygdala, hippocampus, cingulate cortex
• implicated in emotionality

• Involved in memory of emotions associated with events
• Part of the Limbic System

• Involved with encoding new memories of events
• Part of the limbic system

• Implicated in cognitive processing of emotion
• Part of the limbic system

Cell body of the neuron

Located in the soma

Serve as receptor sites for incoming information

The "firing"of a neuron begins here

• Hollow tube extends from soma to terminal branches
• Has semi-permeable membrane
• Has iron gates

Branches that permit communication with many other neurons

• Fatty substance coating some neurons
• May not develop until after birth
• Increases the speed of transmission down the neuron

Ion gates located here to permit depolarization to occur

• Small pouches in terminal buds
• Contain neurotransmitters
• Attach to cell wall during synaptic transmission
• Release neurotransmitters into synaptic gap

Chemical the conveys information from one neuron to the next

• Stimulation of the dendrites sends a graded potential towards the axon hillock
• If reaches the absolute threshold the neuron "fires"
• Once fired the neuron depolarizes and open the ion gates
• The graded potential "fires" down the neuron towards the terminal branches
• After the ion gates close an exchange between potassium (in) and sodium (out) is made
• Once the electric charge reaches the terminal buds its causes the vesicles to attach to the wall and releases neurotransmitters into the synaptic gap
• The neurotransmitter stimulate the next neuron then is released back where it is either reabsorbed, attacked and broken down or reattach

The temporal lobe in the Wernicke's area

When axons have myelin sheathing is helps the Action potential to jump node to node. "To leap"

Is when a neurotransmitter is reabsorbed by the terminal bud it was released from

Magnetic resonance imaging; Scans using radio waves to get a detailed map of the brains and what parts o the brain is being utilized.

It is a language disorder that results in damage to the brain

The ability for nerves to change through new experiences

"master gland" as it controls hormone functions such as our temperature, thyroid activity, growth during childhood, urine production, testosterone production in males and ovulation and estrogen production in females ect

Gland below the voice box that regulates metabolism

Two glands on the kidneys that are involved in physical and emotional arousal

Dopamine

Lack of acetylcholine

• Primary motives - motives for things that are necessary for survival such as food water and warmth.
• Secondary motives - achievement, acceptance ect

regulates energy intake and output; acts on the receptors of the hypothalamus that inhibits appetite

Causes blood vessels to constrict, and drives blood pressure up