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Name: Score:142 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 142
What are outcomes for conducting experiments?
- Reasonable Incentives
- Informed Consent
- Minimized Harm
- Confidentiality
1. Sensory (Afferent Neurons)
2. Motor (Efferent Neurons)
3. Interneurons
axon terminal, synaptic vesicles (sacs that store chemicals)
Not everyone gets the same score
Expect a distribution
- Normal distribution (bell curve)
Term 2 of 142
What type of experiments did Wilhelm Wundt conduct?
a positive voltage shift that increases the likelihood that the postsynaptic neuron will fire
action potential
"whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
Gestalt = "whole" or "form"
- Reaction times
- Attention span
- Perception of visual stimuli, touch & hearing
human thoughts, perceptions & emotions have helped humans to adapt & therefore survive
,Term 3 of 142
What is the Individual level of analysis?
Exploring societal influences on behavior
How content of mental process form & influence behaviour - includes: emotions, thoughts,
ideas (consciousness, intelligence, personality & motivation)
Studying group dynamics in organizations
Investigating genetic predispositions to mental illness
Term 4 of 142
Glial cells are like ______ that hold neurons together.
...glue
cell body, dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, nodes of ranvier, & terminal buttons
chemical messengers - transmit information between neurons
descriptive and inferential
Term 5 of 142
What do motor (efferent) neurons do?
Produce hormones for the endocrine system
Regulate blood flow in the body
Receive sensory information from the environment and transmit it to the brain
Carry impulses from the central nervous system to viscera, muscles, or glands - enables the
body to move
,Definition 6 of 142
When will it happen again?
- Cause and Effect - Experiment/Quasi-experiment
Causation
evolutionary psychology
Prediction (goal of psychology)
The Action potential of a neuron?
Definition 7 of 142
learning, thought, and emotions; controls anxiety
Norepinephrine
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
Acetylcholine
Serotonin
Term 8 of 142
Analyzing Data: 2 Issues?
- Describing (change in) the data
- Knowing if change is "real"
chemical messengers - transmit information between neurons
- Reasonable Incentives
- Informed Consent
- Minimized Harm
- Confidentiality
axon coverings that help speed up transmission signals that move along axon
, Term 9 of 142
What is a culture?
a new type of smartphone technology
a set of beliefs & practices that are shared for generations
a musical instrument from south america
a type of bacteria found in soil
Term 10 of 142
What did Wilhelm Wundt study?
Conscious and Voluntarism
The Study of the Brain & the Nervous System
Negative Responses
a theory that human mental processes are influenced by competition between conscious
forces to come into awareness
Definition 11 of 142
the complete set of selection
Causation
Population:
Conscious
Behaviour
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