Biological Psychology
What are the two main subsystems of the Nervous System?
Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
What is Learning?
A relatively permanent change in behavior or mental processes caused by experience.
What is Developmental Psychology?
Looks at how we develop as human beings, physically and psychologically, from conception to birth.
What is Personality?
Unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
A branch of psychology that looks at the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
What does the Frontal Lobe do?
It receives and coordinates messages from other lobes of the brain, handles our motor movement, our speech production, and higher cognitive processes.
What is Wernicke's area of the Temporal Lobe used for?
Language Comprehension
What is the difference between Sensation and Perception?
Sensation deals with the physical detection of stimuli, while Perception is the interpretation and organization of sensation in the mind.
List all of the systems/subsystems of the nervous system?
Central Nervous System (CNS), Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), Somatic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, and Sympathetic Nervous System