PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Terry Gross, Short-Term Memory, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

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Psyc 100: general psychology exam #2 study guide. It"s not as simple as nature being separate from nurture. Epigenetics- not actual genes but the expression of genes. High levels of exercise (consistent), turns on gene (miracle grow gene), helps create synapses in brain. Altering communication system of brain, and the way you engage and think about the world (cycle) Plasticity: part of seeing world - builds brain. Brain prepared biologically and receives input from world. Fire together, wire together (normative developmental process) Everything see, feel, touch, is exact replica. Sensation- straightforward mechanical process; physical stimulus and sensory. Transduction- translation, physical conversion into chemical and electrical signals. Seeing is not believing: 70 vs 30 bar graph. Back of the eye is the retina: rods and cones detect and process where sensation is done rods (low light conditions, don"t help you see detail, processing emotion, don"t support color vision/detail) ex.