ihammdez – Flashcards
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when you see someone you have a crush on and your heart pounds, your hands get sweaty
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autonomic nervous system
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one purpose of the .... is to speed up the neural message traveling down the axon
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myelin
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... is the mental process of making sense of sensory info
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perception
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the function of the neuron's axon is to
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carry messages to other cells
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when you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily. but after while you forget that
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habituation
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a researcher is investigating the effects of exercise on weight. what are the independent and dependent
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the dependent variable is weight; the independent
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the structuralists were important in the history of psychology because they
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examined consciousness and the structure of mental processes
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in 1879, in Leipzig, Germany, the first
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Wilhelm Wundt
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the term neurotransmitter refers to
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a chemical found in the synaptic vesicles that is released into the synapse
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what did Sigmund Freud consider as the key to understand the nervous disorders he observed
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the unconscious mind
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your teacher asks you to describe the sequence of parts of a neuron that
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dendrites, soma, axon, synaptic knob
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the thick band of neurons that connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres is called the
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corpus callosum
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... is system used for reducing bias and error in the measurement of data
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the scientific method
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receptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision and fine acuity are
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cones
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a teacher tells the school psychologist that Kate is late
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describing behavior
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when light waves enter the eye, they first pass through the
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cornea
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the division of the nervous system that allows the brain and the spinal cord
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peripheral nervous system
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Dr.littman-smith is conducting research in Kenya into
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naturalistic observation
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the branchlike strictures that receive message from other neurons are called
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dendrites
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which of the following is correct concerning random assignment
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in random assignment each participant has an equal chance for each condition
