says that ganglion cells in retina and thalamus correspond to two pairs of colors

Is made up lf nerves which are located throughout the body except the brain and spinal cord

Structures of personality

Reacting to behaviorism and psychoanalysis, figures like Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

Emphasize positive aspects of human nature, free will, eprsonal growth, self actualization

Result from brain damage or spinal cord

assessment and treatment os psychological problems

Systematic Scientific study of behaviors and mental processes

Are believed to only have supported fubctions

What does an fMRI in the brain?

Founded by Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener aims to undestand the mibd by analyzing the structures of mind

Is a process bu which eense organ changes or transform physical energu to electrical signals that become neural impulses sento to the brain for processing

Maintains balance

in which aperson cannot speak in fluent but can understand wriiten and spoken words

A PROTEIN BUILDUP IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

means that the axon has a charge or potential, results from axon membrane separating positive ions on the outside and negative ions on the inside.

Pioneered by Martin Seligman, this recent perspective emphasizes strengths, virtues, and factors that contribute to a fulfilling life.

Neurotransmitter thata fftects our mood

Refers to the decreasing response of the sense organs, the more they are exposed to a continous level of stimulation

A surgery to correct nearsighted vision

A defect in X chromosome

Routed by Darwinian rheiry examines behavior and cognitive processes thrpugh the lens of natural selection

Is the process of developing new neurons

The process of neurons developing new connections

Observable actions

examining developmental changes across lifespan

subjective experience pf soubd's intensity

Kinds of Learning

Developed by Sigmund Freud, this perspective delves into the unconscious mind and how inner conflicts, many from childhood, influence behavior.

Developed by Ulric Neisser and Jean Piaget

neurons that carry information in the form of electrical signals towards the spinal cord.

Part of the brain involved in processing info. from body parts, touch, pain and temperature

How does alcohol Affect GAVA beurotransmitters?

The union of the father's egg awith a mothsr's egg

Founded by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka, looks at the mind and behavior holistically.

Is a point where optic nerve exits the eye and where there are no photoreceptors

has regular breaks where the axon is bare and uninsulated. It is at these bare points that the gates open and action potential takes place.

Is a round opening at the front of eye that allows light waves to pass into the eye's interior

This viewpoint emphasizes the impact of social and cultural factors on human behavior and cognition.

Measure radiation absoprtion by neurons

where trained observers would carefully analyze and report their conscious experiences in reaction to stimuli. Limitation is its subjective and can vary greatly between individuals.

Curved structure inside the parietal lobe involved in saving many kinds of fleeying memories by putting them into permanent storage

Area in the brain associated with emotional situations especially involving fer, distress or threat

Where has two fuctions, transmit and send messages

makes connections between other neurons carrying the messages to the brain.

Chemicals secred by endocrine system

Determines the development of vatious body parts including the brain

A sodium electric current when sodium ions rush inside the axon

Where transduction occurs (ear)

Emerging as a reaction against behaviorism

Says that there are three different kinds of cones in retona called opsins correspond to three primary colors by Thomas Young

a nuit to measure loudness

Realtively meaningless bits of info.

It emphasizes the role of unconscious drives, desires, and experiences.

When eyeball is too short

carry information away from the spinal cord to produce reflex responses through muscles and organs in the body.

An involuntary reaction to stimulus

The utility of the mind by William James

parts of human brain where new neurons develop

Centered on understanding how biological processes underlie behavior and cognition.

It emphasizes the utility and purpose of behavior and thought

disease that attacks the myelin sheaths that wrap around and insulate cells in the central nervous system

Total Color blindness

Part of ANS that is triggered by threatening or challenging physical stimuli such as snake

Are neuropeptides produced by brain and secreted in response to injury and pain

Reason why we see colors

Fiberrs in SNS carry info from sensory receptors to the spinal cord and brain?

Resting state means

Perspective concerned with understanding mental processes like memory, thinking, perception and problem solving

The whole is different from the sum of its part

subjective experience of sound being high or low

Controls the muscles that can be moved voluntarily

Results when eyeball is too long so that objects are focused at a point

This perspective links psychological processes to biological functions, emphasizing the role of the brain, neurotransmitters, and genetic factors in influencing behavior.

Goals of Psychology

Present at birth and cause the brain to increase in size

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

look like tiny bubbles that are located at the extreme ends of the axon’s branches

an infinitely small space (20–30 billionths of a meter) that exists between an end bulb and its adjacent body organ (heart), muscles (head), or cell body

Area in the brain regulates motivational behaviors including eating, drinking anf sexual impulses

Three well established function of glial cells

A person that has difficulty in understanding spoken and written words into meaningful sentences

A visual senstation that continues after the original stimulus is removed

Transparent, oval structure whose curved surface bends and focuses light waves into an even narrower beam

The increase of GABA

Right Length for the eye

Brain is fueled by

where behaviors and attitudes across different cultures are compared.

is a single threadlike structure that extends from, and carries signals away from, the cell body to neighboring neurons, organs, or muscles.

Involved in coordinating motor movements but not in initiating motor movements

Are medical dpctors that prescribed medicines and therapy

Meaningful sensory experiences

are branchlike extensions that arise from the cell body; they receive signals from other neurons, muscles, or sense organs and pass these signals to the cell body.

made up of neurons located in the brain and spinal cord.

Pioneered by John B. Watson, and later advanced by B.F. Skinner, focuses solely on observable behaviors rather than internal mental processes.

development and interpretation psychological tests

Inability to distinguished two or more colors

Results from extra 21st chromosomes

2 parts of brain cells

An inhereted genetic effect found mostly in males, trouble distingusihing from red and green