Topic:
1. The difference between genotype and phenotype is that genotype it the genetic factor. While phenotype is the structural appearance.
2. Motor neurons direct muscles to contract or relax. Sensory neurons detect information the physical world around us to the brain. interneurons communicate information within a single area of the brain versus from the brain to the rest of the body.
3. dopamine is a derivative from protein. It communicates pleasure, motivation and motor control.
4. The amygdala is a brain structure located in the front of the hippocampus. Its main function is to associate things with emotion.
5. Learning may be represented in the brain by the neurons. connections between neurons may become stronger or new neuron connections may be created.
Questions:
1. Monozygotic twins are twins that are born from one zygote splitting into to two. Therefore both would share the exact same genes. Dizygote twins are born from two separate eggs that become fertilized. Thus each zygote has its own genes. We can compare each ones similarities to determine if behavior is partly caused by genetics. For example if monozygotic twins are more similar than dizygotic twins it would imply that genetics has an influence on psychology.
2. The difference between axons and dendrites is that the axon is what carries the action potential. While the dendrites are the media that passes the stimulation on to the next neuron at the synapse. The axon is the stimuli carrier and the dendrites are transporter of the stimuli from one neuron to the next and receive the stimuli as well.
3. The resting potential is when the neuron is not active and the electrical charge inside the neuron is slightly more negative than the charge on the outside of the neuron. It is said to be polarized. An action potential also known as the neural firing is the chemical signal that passes along the axon when the neuron is active, and caused the release of chemicals that transmit the signal to other neurons.
4. Neurotransmitters allow one neuron to communicate with another by being released across the synaptic cleft and opening ion channels into another neuron and creating another action potential.
5. The four lobes that form the brain are the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe and the occipital lobe. The frontal lobe processes thoughts and movements, the parietal lobe processes the sense of touch, the temporal lobe processes hearing and memory, and the occipital lobe processes vision.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Chapter 1 Questions
Topic:
1. FMRI stands for funcrtional magnetic resonance imaging. Its a method of scanning the brain for activity. It is an important tool because it allows the detection of what parts of the brain are activated.
2. Emperical means a well conducted research to observe or examine how things work. Psychology is empirical because in order to understand how the mind works psychologist must perform studies. Being systematic. What we're able to know through our senses.
3. An example of an adaptive value of the mind would be the ability to evolve or better the skills of the mind in order to increase survival. Such as men being stronger than women in order to protect the offspring to ensure the passing of DNA into future generations.
4. Psychology became a dicipline roughly around 18th through the 3rd centures BCE. The main founders were Greeks and Chinese.
5. Two perfessions that make use of psychology would be for example care givers, they must know how individuals think, react, function. Advisers as well mush understand how individuals atitudes are changed or enhanced.
Questions:
1. Psychological science is the study of the mind and brain. Mind being the mental activity of the brain . How we percieve things in the world around us. For example how we reacdt or experience our sense of smell, touch, sight, taste, hear. The brain being how we are able to experience these sensations through nerves, cells, neurons, of the brain.
2. The mind and the brain are related in the way that the mind is what we experience, our senses our thoughts and ideas. The brain is related to our mind in that it is the machinery of sorts. Our brain works to produce the sensations that we experience. Rene Decartes introduced the idea of dualism. the mind is a product of the brain action.
3. The levels of analysis are Biological, how the physical body contributes to the mind and human behaviors, Individual analysis level involves individual differences of personality, character, how people see dthe world around them. Social level deals with how people interact and socialize with eachother and influence ones behaviors. Cultural level being the different cultures behaviors of the people and the beliefs and values of individual groups in society. Different points of view from which to look at psychology.
4. Womens contributions to psychology were very underminded. Men had trouble accepting the equality of women knowledge of psychology to theirs. In the 19th century women were not allowed equal educatrion as men. since then we have had the 1st women set up psychology laboratory. and The first women president of the American Psychological Association in 1905, Mary Calkins. Since then women have been allowed equal educational oportunities and success in the psychological field of study. Margaret Washburn.
5. Critical thinking is a systematic way of evaluating information and using it to reach a conclusion of sorts. Thinking with the goal of reaching some kind of conclusion for example while making a decision or solving a problem. You can improve you critical thinking skills by applying them to your every day routine and learning to use them in the class room or work place.
1. FMRI stands for funcrtional magnetic resonance imaging. Its a method of scanning the brain for activity. It is an important tool because it allows the detection of what parts of the brain are activated.
2. Emperical means a well conducted research to observe or examine how things work. Psychology is empirical because in order to understand how the mind works psychologist must perform studies. Being systematic. What we're able to know through our senses.
3. An example of an adaptive value of the mind would be the ability to evolve or better the skills of the mind in order to increase survival. Such as men being stronger than women in order to protect the offspring to ensure the passing of DNA into future generations.
4. Psychology became a dicipline roughly around 18th through the 3rd centures BCE. The main founders were Greeks and Chinese.
5. Two perfessions that make use of psychology would be for example care givers, they must know how individuals think, react, function. Advisers as well mush understand how individuals atitudes are changed or enhanced.
Questions:
1. Psychological science is the study of the mind and brain. Mind being the mental activity of the brain . How we percieve things in the world around us. For example how we reacdt or experience our sense of smell, touch, sight, taste, hear. The brain being how we are able to experience these sensations through nerves, cells, neurons, of the brain.
2. The mind and the brain are related in the way that the mind is what we experience, our senses our thoughts and ideas. The brain is related to our mind in that it is the machinery of sorts. Our brain works to produce the sensations that we experience. Rene Decartes introduced the idea of dualism. the mind is a product of the brain action.
3. The levels of analysis are Biological, how the physical body contributes to the mind and human behaviors, Individual analysis level involves individual differences of personality, character, how people see dthe world around them. Social level deals with how people interact and socialize with eachother and influence ones behaviors. Cultural level being the different cultures behaviors of the people and the beliefs and values of individual groups in society. Different points of view from which to look at psychology.
4. Womens contributions to psychology were very underminded. Men had trouble accepting the equality of women knowledge of psychology to theirs. In the 19th century women were not allowed equal educatrion as men. since then we have had the 1st women set up psychology laboratory. and The first women president of the American Psychological Association in 1905, Mary Calkins. Since then women have been allowed equal educational oportunities and success in the psychological field of study. Margaret Washburn.
5. Critical thinking is a systematic way of evaluating information and using it to reach a conclusion of sorts. Thinking with the goal of reaching some kind of conclusion for example while making a decision or solving a problem. You can improve you critical thinking skills by applying them to your every day routine and learning to use them in the class room or work place.
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