PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Visual Cortex
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Hammer, anvil, and stirrup function in sending vibration/amplifying vibrations from the middle ear to the cochlea"s oval window. Confirmation bias: tendency to seek out, notice, and interpret information in a way consistent with your own prior beliefs. Psychiatric social worker: has training in an area of social work and often has a professional license to practice. Sensation: occurs when special receptors in the sense organs are activated, allowing various forms of outside stimuli to become neural signals. Case study: study of an individual in great detail. Advantages: tremendous amount of detail and rich source of hypothesis generation. Limitation is that findings may not generalize to others. Corpus callosum: cerebral hemispheres are separated by a band of tough neural fibers which allow the left and right hemispheres to communicate with each other. Dopamine: found in brain, excitatory or inhibitory, involved in control of movement and sensations of pleasure. Psychiatrist: medical specialty and needs a medical degree, diagnose and treat psychological disorders.
