PSYC 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Cerebral Cortex
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Neuroscience and behavior: biological psychology: branch of psychology concerned w/ links between biology and behavior. The brain: brainstem, brainstem: oldest part and central core of brain - where spinal cord swells and enters skull. Cet (chronic traumatic encephalopathy: having to do with the article we received, concussions and brain injuries = problems with brain earlier with cet. Noticeable threshold jnt: weber"s law: constant minimum percentage (not constant) for difference threshold, signal detection theory: no absolute threshold but depends on number of factors, experience, fatigue, motivation, expectations, sensory adaptation: diminished sensitivity as consequence of constant stimulation. Body position and movement: kinesthesis: system for sensing position/movement of individual body parts (6th sense, vestibular sense: sense of body movement/position including sense of balance. Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of practice or experience. Changes due to growth or maturation are not learning. Classical conditioning: learning style in which an organism learns to associate two stimuli.
