Because experience is subjective and deceivable, knowledge equals reasoning from an active mind.
What is Rationalism by Rene Descartes
100
Three types of research designs
What is Experiment, Descriptive, and Correlational
100
The threshold potential
What is the voltage required to generate a neural impulse, or action potential.
100
Either neurons fire or they don't.
What is the all-or-none principle
100
______ transmits, _______ processes
What is White matter, grey matter
200
The three levels of Aristotle's Hierarchy of Psyches
What is Vegetative/Nutritive : All living things, derive nutrition from environment.
Sensitive: Only animals, sense surroundings and react.
Rational: Only humans, can apply abstract logic.
200
The difference between a dependent and independent variable.
What is measurement (DV) and manipulation (IV)
200
Where the Na and K gates close.
What is the peak of the action potential, after hyperpolarization
200
How neurons communicate variation.
What is a different number of neurons firing or different rates of firing.
200
What the brainstem consists of and it's function
What is the medulla oblongata and pons, Regulator for internal environment, like breathing (ext. points for Visceral Automatic Homeostasis)
300
Described by Wilhelm Wundt as a way to understand human behavior by breaking it down into parts and reconstructing it, and described by William James as understanding that the parts of behavior are less interesting than the purpose those parts serve.
What is Structuralism v. Functionalism
300
Our goals in research
What is Validity (The extent to which the data reflect what we want to study), Reliability (the extent to which we would get the same data in similar circumstances), and Accuracy (Lack of error, random or systematic)
300
Acts as the bouncer from chemical diffusion between neural membranes.
What is Sodium Potassium Pump
300
The two types of signals in a postsynaptic neuron
What is Inhibitory (decreases likelihood of generating a new AP) and Excitatory (increases likeihood of generating an AP)
300
Has a "life timer" and regulates the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus
400
The three psychodynamic forces that Freud hypothesized.
What is the Id: operates on the pleasure principle, The Superego: the internalized societal and parental standards of conduct, and the Ego: Operates on the reality principle.
400
Statistics that can be used to describe trends in your data.
What is measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and variance (range, standard deviation)
400
the charge between glial cells that pushes an AP down the axon.
What is salutatory conduction
400
______ fuse with the presynaptic membrane and eject their contents, ______
What is Vesicles and Neurotransmitters.
400
The spinal cord is used for...
What is reflexes, transmission, and quick processing
500
The 3 premises of evolution by natural selection and the conclusions from those.
What is 1. Natural selection results in structures that facilitate survival and reproduction or byproducts of those structures.
2. Natural selection shapes all biological systems.
3. Biological systems ultimately control all behavior
Therefore: Behavior ultimately serves to facilitate reproduction.
500
The strengths and weaknesses of an experiment.
What is higher influence on variables, easier to be precise, best way to determine causation (why?), vs. harder to generalize in real life, and sometimes impossible or unethical.
500
The charges at each phase of an action potential.
What is Resting phase: - inside, Rising phase: - to + inside. Repolarization:+ to - inside, Hyperpolarization: - to - - inside.
500
The cause of a neurotransmitter's effect
What is the receptor
500
The limbic system (Excluding thalamus and hypothalamus)
What is the amygdala (initial, quick emotion association), the hippocampus (memory, decides what memories to store) and the basal ganglia (plans and initiates body movement)