A descriptive technique of observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations
without trying to manipulate and control the situation -
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What is naturalistic observation? How is it limited?
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A design to study to test the hypothesis -
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What is the scientific method?
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A fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons; enable vastly greater
transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one node to the next. -
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What is myelin sheath?
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a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either
factor predicts the other. -
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What is the correlational method?
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A nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system -
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What are neurons?
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a statistical index of the relationship between two things from (-1.00 to +1.00) -
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What are positive and negative correlations?
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A testable prediction, often implied by a theory -
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What is a hypothesis?
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Acetylcholine: affects neurons involved in muscle action, learning, memory
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, Endorphins: reduce pain and promote pleasure
Dopamine: affects neurons involved in voluntary movement, reward, learning, memory
Serotonin: affects neurons involved in sleep, appetite, mood
GABA: inhibitory- calms
Epinephrine: involved in stress response
Norepinephrine: involved in stress response -
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What are acetylcholine, endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, GABA, and epinephrine and
norepinephrine?
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Agonists: bind to receptors
Antagonists: block to receptor -
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What are agonists and antagonists?
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At top of Brain.
Contain somatosensory cortex. -
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What are the parietal lobes?
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