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Psychology
Definitions
Parts of a Neuron
Synapse
Brain, Nerve and Nervous System
Psychological Theories
100
What is the definition of a stimulus?
What is a category of drugs that speed up activity in the CNS, suppress appetite and causes a feeling of alertness.
100
The branch like extension of a neuron the receives signals from other neurons.
What is a dendrite
100
When an impulse and a neurotransmitter connect and shoot across the gap
What is step 5
100
The brain and spinal cord
What is the Central Nervous System
100
This theory stresses that behaviour is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical and sensitive periods
What is Evolutionism
200
A chemical messenger that is relesed into the synaptic cleft from the axon terminal of the sending neuron
What is a neurotransmitter
200
The white fatty coating wrapped around some axons that help the impulse travel quicker.
What is Myelin Sheath
200
Neurotransmitters have to wait their turn in line before they enter their door
What is step 7
200
This is made up of the nerves that branch out from the Central Nervous System to the rest of the body.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System
200
Believers of this theory perspective think that behaviour is motivated by inner forces, memories and conflicts that are generally beyond people’s awareness and control
What is the Psychoanalysis theory
300
In born automatic responses to certain environmental stimuli.
What is a reflex
300
A specialized cell that conducts impulses through the nervous system
What is a neuron
300
To cross the gap to the next nerve, an impulse must be attached to a neurotransmitter.
What is step 2
300
Speeds up the bodies processes
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System
300
This perspective suggests that the keys to understanding development are observable behaviour and outside stimuli in the environment. If we know the stimuli, we can predict the behaviour
What is the Behaviorism theory
400
The slender tail like extension of a neuron that receives signals from other neurons.
What is an Axon
400
The brain of the nerve cell
What is the nucleus.
400
Neurotransmitters wait in the gap for an impulse to come
What is step 4
400
Slows down the bodies processes when necessary
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
400
This perspective contends that people have a natural tendency to make decisions about their lives and control their behaviour. It emphasizes free will, the ability of humans to make choices and come to decisions about their lives.
What is the Humanism theory
500
Sites of the cell body or dendrite of a neuron that will interact with only a certain transmitter
What are receptors
500
The body of the cell
What is the cell body.
500
Neurotransmitters can only enter through the door their are designed for.
What is step 6
500
This is responsible for the involuntary processes of the body such as breathing and digestion.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System.
500
This perspective focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand and think about the world. The cognitive perspective emphasizes how people internally represent and think about the world.
What is Cognitivism