| Ch. 3 Neuroscience | Ch. 6 Sensation & Perception | Ch. 10 Language & Perception | Ch. 16 Clinical Psychology | Mystery Topic |
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What are the frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal?
The four lobes of the brain
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What is the retina?
The thin layer of tissuw that lines the back of the eye on the inside
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What is a heuristic?
A thinking strategy that makes problem solving more efficient
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What are neurosis (personality disorders)?
Characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
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What is the ear canal?
This transmits sound from the pinna to the tympanum
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What is the axon hillocks?
The action potential in a neuron originates here
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What is the tympanum?
The ear drum
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What is confirmation bias?
The tendency to search for information that confirms your preconceptions
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What is OCD?
Unwanted repetitive thoughts followed by actions
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What are synaptic vessicles?
This carries the neurotransmitters down the synapse to the synaptic cleft
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What are the thalamus, hypothalamus, and amygdala?
The limbic system it composed of these
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What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
The three ossicles of the middle ear
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What is belief perseveration?
When a person clings to their beliefs even after they've been discredited
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What is schizophrenia?
Psychotic disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech/behavior
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What is psychosis?
Any severe mental illness in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
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What is the reuptake pump?
The part of the synaptic cleft that removes unused neurotransmitters
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What is a false alarm?
When you detect a stimuli, but there was no sound
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What is telegraphic speech?
An early speech stage where children omit auxiliary words
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What is somatoform disorder?
Disorder characterized by physical symptoms with no known physical causes
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What is bipolar disorder?
Mood disorder that alternates between lethargic and hyperactive
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What are the central nervous system and the somatic nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic)?
The different nervous systems
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What are binocular cues?
The utilization of both eyes to see objects in 3-D (with depth)
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What is nonverbally communicate?
Koko the gorilla and the Bonobos were able to do this
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What is mania?
Mood disordee marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
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What are the iris and the pupil, in the pupillary reflex?
These two parts of the eye do this to control the amount of light that enters
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