PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Autonomic Nervous System, Detection Theory
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Chapter 2: scientific method: a systematic method of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data, used to describe, predict, controls, and explain why specific behaviors happen, world events, personal experiments, past research, logic/ common sense . Problem: expensive and take long time: cross-sectional studies: researcher compares participants of different ages at the same time. Problem: unidentified variables may be involved: case-studies: examine individual lives and organizations, intense examination of a specific person or organization, cross cultural studies: examines the effect of culture on some variable of interest. Sympathetic nervous system: prepares body for action. Parasympathetic nervous system: returns body to natural state: homeostasis: a dynamic balance between the autonomic branches derive a conclusion. Afferent: nerve fibers carry information to the cns. Interneurons: cns neurons that communicate with other neurons: neurons communicate electrically within cells through neuron impulses. Facial muscle send signals to the brain that help us recognize emotion.
