PSYCH 2010- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 66 pages long!)
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Chapter 1: the evolution of psychology: psychology is practical, provides a way of thinking, early history independent discipline conscious experience. Chapter 3: the biological bases of behavior: communication in the nervous system, nervous system handles information integrate, and transmit information chemical machinery common to most cells receive information secrete chemicals called neurotransmitters from one neuron to another. Increase or decrease the probability of a neural impulse in the receiving cell in proportion to the amount of voltage change: excitatory psp a positive volt shift that increases the. Integrating sensory processes (vision and hearing) variety of structures (thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, and cerebrum: vital link between the brain and the endocrine system. Binet scale: lewis terman 1916, david wechsler 1939, made it possible to compare children of different ages, published the stanford-binet intelligence scale (revision to original. Jean piaget"s stage theory: proposed that young children progress through four major stages of cognitive development, sensorimotor period (birth-2)
