PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peripheral Nervous System, Abnormal Psychology, Spinal Cord
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Idiographic vs. nomothetic approach (produced more general results: scientific method, ask a question, examine background research, form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment. Iv, dv, confounding variable: analyze data and draw conclusions, may/may not match up with hypothesis, communicate results, can be conducted on different levels. Individual level: cellular level, group level, population level. Neurohormones and neurotransmitters: nervous system: communication is both electrical and chemical, neurotransmitters: chemical substances that relay electrical signals between one neuron and the next, psychiatry uses medication-based treatments. Cerebral cortex and its lobes: contains structures that contribute to higher cognitive functioning. Nervous system: sensory-somatic ns, cranial nerves which control sensation and muscle movement, autonomic ns. Neuroimaging activated by the sns: technology that takes pictures of the brain, neuroanatomy: brain structure, computerized axial tomography (cat/ct, magnetic resonance imaging (mri, other technology, positron emission tomography (pet, functional mri (fmri) Genetics: deoxyribonucleic acid (dna, gene, sex chromosomes, gregor mendel (1822-1884, law of segregation (dominant vs. recessive, law of independent assortment.
