Resting state means

Functions of Glial Cells

Inspired by Eilliam James influenced by Darwin's Theory and how mental processes adopt environment

Major fuel of the brain

Refers to the process in which a sense organ changes or transforms physical energy into electrical signals that become nerve impuses sent to the brain fpr processing

part of limbic system that evaluates the emotional significance of stimuli and facial expressions especially involving fear, distress or threat

Development and interpretation of psychological tests, measurements of abilities, skills, intellegence, personality and abnormal behaviors

Goals of psychology

Viewpoint ephasizes social and cultural factors on behavior and cognition

Developmental Stages across lifespan examination

Originally believed to only have supportive functions

What genetic disorder that results from 21st chromosome?

Refers to a point where a stimulus is perceived anf below which is not perceived

Behavior in the context of evolution, natural selection and analyzing mate selection

Where transduction takes place

A reaction against behaviorism developed bu Ulric Neisser and Jean Piaget

Result of combonation of Father's sperm cell with mother's egg

The process of developing new neurons

What does X syndrome results from?

Reaction to behaviorism and psychoanalysis that developed by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

Where trained obserbers would carefully analyze and report their conscious experiences in reaction to stimuli.

Study social interactions, behavior, prejudices and group behaviors

It denotes the purpose/utility of thought and behavior

What structure that extends from the body to carry signals away from the neuron?

What disease attacks the myelin sheaths in central neevous system?

Are medical doctors that can prescribed medications and diagnose patients

Structures of personality, primary drives of psychoanalysis

Focuses solely on observable behaviors rather than internal processes

Assessment and treatment of psychological problems, development of effectove therapy method

Study of biological basis abd cognition

Extremely small space that exists between an end bulb and its adjacent organ or cell body?

An approach where observable behaviors and environment (i.e conditioning, punishment,)

Refers to wide range of comolex mental processes such as thinking, dreaming, imagining

Neurotransmitters that affects our mood

Is a tiny electric current that is genrated when positove sodium ions rush inside the axon

Systematic scientific study of behaviors and mental processes

Two Kinds of Brain Cells

An approach focus on individual growth and self actualization

Founded by William Wundt and Edward Titchener that ims to understand the structure of mind through introspection.

Process where neurons are developing new connections

Pioneered by Marrin Seligman, emphasizes strengths, virtues, factors and strengths that contribute to meaning life

Employ job satisfaction enhancement, examination of people-work environment relationships

Founded by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka that emphasized the whole is different from the sum on its part

structures that are involved with regulating many motivational behaviors such as obtaining food, drink, and sex with organizing emotional behaviors

Refers to the decreasing response of the sense organs the more they are exposed to continuos level of stimulation

Routed from Darwinian Theory that examines cognitive processes through natural selection and evolution

What protein that gradually destoys brain cells in Alzheimer's Disease?