CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Little Albert Experiment, Institutional Review Board, Margaret Floy Washburn

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barry Grant

Document Summary

Structuralism focuses on identifying different elements of the mind and how they work, while functionalism focuses on identifying the purpose of these elements. Biological bases of behavior: peripheral nervous system. Heart rate and breathing increase, digestion is inhibited, increased perspiration. Parasympathetic: calming (rest and digest: sensory neurons pick up on external messages from the environment (e. g. a smell) and transmit them to the central nervous system. These are also called afferent neurons: motor neurons transmit messages from the cns to the rest of the body - efferent neurons, action potentials. Definition: a brief shift in a neuron"s electrical charge: when a neuron is at rest, it has a negative (70 mgb) charge relative to its environment, during an action potential, channels along the axon open. Acronym: f-pot: key auditory area - temporal, key visual area - occipital, contains primary somatosensory cortex, involved in sensory integration - occipital, judgment, executive functioning, motor cortex - frontal.