Neurons * Nervous system cells * Highly specialized cell that communicates information in electrical and chemical form * Types: * Motor- signals muscles to relax and contract * Sensory- conveys information to the brain * Interneurons- communicates information from one neuron to the next * Parts of Neurons * Dendrite- receives information from other cells * Soma (Cell Body)- contains the nucleus * Axon: carries information *
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Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology studies our mental processes or cognitions. These mental processes that cognitive psychologists focus on include memory, perception, thinking and language. The main concern of cognitive psychology is how information received from our senses is processed by the brain and how this processing directs how we behave. Strengths of COGNITIVE approach Example from Core Study 1 High levels of control in laboratory conditions Baron-Cohen they were able to select
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Newton believed that universe was created by God and operated by inserted laws which can be discovered. Rene Descartes thought there were innate ideas built in human which can affect physical bodies, then initiated the development of studying the functions of human body, stimulus-response relationship and non-human beings to understand human. Besides empiricism and rationalism mentioned above, existentialism also rose in this period, which focus on the meaning of human, freedom of choice and the uniqueness
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schools of thought. Each of the four schools of thought is based on different studies and assumptions where the causes and treatments are concerned, in reference to psychology. The main four schools of thought are psychodynamic, the behaviorist, cognitive, and the evolutionary. The Psychodynamic Perspective The school of psychodynamic was “founded by Sigmund Freud ( HubPages Inc, 2011),” and evolved from Freud’s theories that all people have “powerful unconscious motives that underlie their
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PSYCOLOGY Wilhelm Wundt is the man most commonly identified as the father of psychology. Why Wundt? Other people such as Hermann von Helmholtz, Gustav Fechner, and ErnstWeber were involved in early scientific psychology research, so why are they not credited as father of psychology? Because Wundt's formation of the world's first experimental psychology lab is usually noted at the official start of psychology as a separate and distinct science. By establishing a lab that utilized scientific methods
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Genetics, Brain Structure, and Behavior Presentation Evaluation Joshua Osman PSY/340 12/16/2013 Rebecca Wilson Schizophrenia is a complicated chronic condition of the brain which causes a person to interpret reality abnormally. In the presentation “Schizophrenia”, Team B dives into the depths of the disease, thoroughly defining and explaining causes and possible genetic onset, which areas of the brain are damaged or interrupted, and how the
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Specialization Purpose: To explain how research on split-brain patients has helped us understand the special abilities of the two halves of the brain. Summary: This activity describes what researchers have learned about the special abilities of the left and right sides of the brain. After a brief review of the way that information is carried from the main sensory channels to the brain, you will test the responses of a simulated “split-brain” patient to demonstrate that, for most right-handers
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is to the influential work of René Descartes, French mathematician, philosopher and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind and body relationship. As the 19th century progressed, the problem of the relationship of mind to brain became ever more pressing. The word psychology comes from two Greek words: Psyche and Logos. The term ‘psychology’ used early on described the study of the spirit. It was in the 18th century when psychology gained its literal meaning:
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It is present in mainly elderly patients (male and female) but there is an early onset in younger children if it is genetic. This disease occurs when nerve cells in the brain (substantia nigra) that produce dopamine are destroyed. It is unknown what causes these cells to die. Once the majority of nerve cells are lost, the brain cannot send the proper signals to the body to produce movements and motor control is affected. The symptoms then begin to appear which change a person’s life forever. The
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and hitting her head. Pt was taken to the ER and given a Ct of the brain where all results turned up normal. After at least 5 more falls the pts family took her back to the hospital with complaints of chest pain and palpitations. Pt was more confused than usual & and was having increased difficulty in gait. Physician suspected pt to have some left-sided weakness greater than left-sided weakness and chest pain. A second CT of the brain turned up normal. VS stable, but pt remains confused, weak, & complains
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