PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Somatic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Stretch Reflex
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Week 1: distinguish between some of the historical psychological perspectives. Identify and distinguish some of the historically important people in psychology. Week 2: distinguish between some of the historical psychological perspectives (cont. from last week, distinguishing modern areas of psychology, distinguish between psychological professionals: a psychologist vs a psychiatrist, describing descriptive, correlation, and experimental research methods in psychology. Identify key components of an experiment: independent vs dependent variables, random sampling, potential issues to consider, the need for replication (many studies) Identify the cellular machinery of the nervous system: identify the parts of the neuron, describe an action potential, describe synapse and how they communicate. Identify the components of the somatic nervous system. Identify the components of the autonomic nervous system. Identify major brain regions and there primary functions: cortex various lobes and functions, discuss split-brain patients, and identified specialized function of the each hemisphere, limbic system, brain stem, cerebellum, describe methods for studying neuroscience.
