PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Occipital Lobe, Dendrite, Hippie
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Psychology 100: first exam study guide: limits of common sense, overcon dence: people are more con dent then they are correct, hindsight bias: after knowing the outcome, you think it was predictable, scienti c methods, hypothesis: Personal observation and curiosity: research methods, descriptive: describes the nature of the phenomena, correlational: predicts knowing that x causes y, experimental: causality of x causes y. Strengths: can determine cause and effect/control over situation. Re-uptake occurs: excess neurotransmitters are reused in the axon of the neuron that released them. Axon returns to resting state of -70 mv. Counteract enzymes that clean out synapse e. g. xanax/valium (gaba); prozac (serotonin) Blocks nt sites: antagonists: (blocks actions of nts) Neuron types: sensory neurons, motor neurons, interneurons: Spinal cord: skip the brain, info is fed up and down the spinal cord only. Brain: early brain theory: related behavior to bumps on the skull. Problems: imaging techniques, brain parts and functions:
