PSY 101 Straighterline Final Exam 2023 Update Solution A+
PSY 101 Straighterline Final Exam 20232 Update Solution A+ psychology - Answer-the scientific study of behavior and mental processes science - Answer-psychology uses systematic methods to observe human behavior and draw conclusions behavior - Answer-everything we do that can be directly observed mental process - Answer-The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly critical thinking - Answer-thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. empirical method - Answer-gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the collection of data, and logical reasoning structuralism - Answer-focus on identifying the elemental parts or structures of the human mind; William Wundt functionalism - Answer-A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish; William James natural selection - Answer-A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits; Charles Darwin neurons - Answer-a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system glial cells - Answer-cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons cell body - Answer-Largest part of a typical neuron; contains the nucleus and much of the cytoplasm dendrites - Answer-Branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive information. axon - Answer-the extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscles or glands myelin sheath - Answer-fatty layer that covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses resting potential - Answer-The difference in electric charge between the inside and outside of a neuron's cell membrane; neg inside, pos outisde action potential - Answer-a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon all or nothing principle - Answer-The principle that once the electrical impulse reaches a certain level of intensity (its threshold), it fires and moves all the way down the axon without losing any intensity. synapses - Answer-tiny gaps between dentrites and axons of different neurons Neuraltransmitters -...
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