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Frontal Lobe
Executive Region/Master Movements
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Temporal Lobe
Primary Auditory Cortex
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Parietal Lobe
Associative Cortex
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Occipital Lobe
Primary Visual Cortex
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Thalamus
Sensory Relay Station
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Hippocampus
Short term memory to longer term
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Amygdala
Fear, memory for emotional events/experience
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Hypothalamus
Major link to endocrine system.
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Pituitary Gland
Master Gland, Releases hormones, Controlled by the hypothalamus
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Cerebellum
Movement and making judgements
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Structuralism
- Wilhelm Wundt - Father of Psyche
- Edward Titchener
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Functionalism
William James
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Behaviorism
- John B. Watson
- B.F Skinner
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First APA President
Mary Calkins
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First Women PHD
Margaret Washburn
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First PHD for Blacks
Gilbert Jones
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Cognitive Psychology
Herbert A. Simon and Alan Newell
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Humanistic Psych
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
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Clinical Neuropsychologist
clinical psychologists who work specifically w/ tests desgined to diagnose the effects of brain damage on thoughts, feelings and behavior and to indicate which parts of the brain are impaired following trauma
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Applied Psychologists
The type of psychologist who studies how to improve products and procedures and conducts research to help solve practical problems.
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What are the 3 levels of Analysis?
Brain, Person, Group
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Who is the Father of American Psychology?
John B. Watson
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What type of psychologists are the most abundant?
Clinical Psychologists 67.6%
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Which type of Psychological movement was influenced by Darwin?
Functionalism
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Who produced the first Psych Lab in Harvard?
William James, Functionalism
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Cognitive Neuroscience
A blending of cognitive psychology and neuroscience that aims to specify how the brain stores and processes information
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Cognitive Psychologist
One who studies thinking, memory, and related topics
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What part of the neuron does Multiple Sclerosis affect?
Myelin
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Which hemisphere is dominated by language?
LEFT HEMISPHERE
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Limbic System
A set of brain areas including the hippocampus, amygdala, and other areas that have been long thought of as being involved in fighting, fleeing, feeding and sex.
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Disease that causes massive uncontrolled firing in parts of the brain, leading to bodily convulsions
Epilepsy
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Basal Ganglia
Planning and producing movement
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Medulla
Automatic control of breathing, swallowing, and blood circulation
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Brains 4 Mechanisms for influencing the body:
Sketal System, ANS, Hormones, Immune Responses
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Neuroendocrine system
Makes hormones that affect many bodily functions and provides CNS with info.
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Cortisol
Hormone that helps the body deal with stress by breaking down and converting protein and fat to sugar.
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MRI
Magnetic properties of atoms
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fMRI
Detects amount of oxygen being brought to a particular place in the brain while a task is performed
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Branches of the Peripheral Nervous System?
Autonomic & Sensory-somatic
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Somasensory Strip
Registers sensation on the body and is organzied by body part
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Motor Strip
Controls fine movements and is organized by body part
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Two Main Photo Receptors?
Rods and Cones
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Bottom-Up?
- Processing initiated by S input
- - Feature detectors
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Top-down:
Processing guided by knowledge, expectation or belief
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Which of the following historical figures was noted as being a physician who specialized in neurology?
Sigmund Freud
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Goals of psychology include all of the following except to ______ mental processes:
A. Control
B. Rationalize
C. Rationalize
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A good theory is
Falsifiable
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________ is a statistical technique involving the combination of results from several studies in an attempt to determine whether there is a relationship among variables that extends beyond one study
Meta-Analysis
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The phrase rest and digest is most closely associated with NS?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
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The ______ has been likened to an airline hub due to its role in receiving and sending multiple streams of information:
Thalamus
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During an action potential, there is an influx of which type of ion into the cell?
Sodium
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What are the 3 types of descriptive research?
Case study, survey, and naturalistic observations
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