Human Physiology/Senses ← The Nervous System — Human Physiology — The Muscular System → Senses Are the physiological methods of perception. The senses and their operation‚ classification‚ and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields. Sense is a faculty by which outside stimuli are perceived. What are Senses? We experience reality through our senses. A sense is a faculty by which outside stimuli are perceived. Many neurologists disagree about how many senses
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GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY I. OVERVIEW ON PSYCHOLOGY 1. William James (1890) – Published Principles of Psychology 2. Wilhelm Wundt (1879) – Published the first Psychological lab in Leipzig 3. Sigmund Freud (1900) – Published Interpretation of Dreams 4. Alfred Biret & Theodore Simon (1905) – Developed the 1st standardized intelligence 5. Ivan Pavlov(1906) – Published the results of his learning experiments with dog tests 6. John Watson (1973) – Wrote his book on behaviorism‚ promoting the importance of
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Feeling the Winter Blues Do you ever feel as winter approaches you find it more difficult to wake up in the morning or feel like you start lacking energy to perform everyday activities‚ and maybe finding it more difficult concentrating on completing daily tasks? Maybe you are not sure what’s causing you to feel down every year when the season changes‚ it gets colder‚ and the days get shorter. While many people just go year to year feeling a drop in energy level or depressed around the
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1. Epithalamus STRUCTURES: a. habenula gray matter soma or body of the neurons found to link the limbic system with reticular formation(arousal) b. stria medullaris fibers extension to the lower part of brain c. epiphysis (pineal gland) secretes melatonin:sleep chemical;third eye 2. Thalamus-thalami(two hemisphere/parts) made up of nuclei last relay station except for smell screening structure 4 Divisions: a. medial geniculate body: audition-temporal b. lateral
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Discuss explanations for insomnia and/or narcolepsy. (8 marks + 16 marks) Explanations of narcolepsy are in majority biological. Scientists have discovered that narcoleptics often are lacking in hypocretin which is a chemical in the brain that control sleep and wakefulness. A lack of this chemical may explain the sudden attacks of sleep. Sakurai (2007) highlighted how there are about 10‚000-20‚000 hypocretin-producing cells in a normal hypothalamus‚ but people with narcolepsy have a significantly
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Historical Influences Presentation Cher Keen PSY/310 8/10/15 Dr. Sadie Fine Main Influences in Development Voluntarism Theory Cognitive Theory Cognitive theory worked with the development of thought processing. It defined the process of how humans understand and interact with their world. Jean Piaget was a major contributor of Cognitive Theory. Piaget also assisted with revolutionizing how we observe stages of children to adult thinking patterns. Wilhelm Wundt introduced voluntarism which is
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Descartes famously a rationalist believed that true knowledge about the world comes from reason and without experience. Descartes initiated his claim about the self by doubting. He doubted everything‚ including his own existence‚ and that doubt itself is the only certainty. Accordingly‚ he assumed that his thoughts were the only thing not to be doubted. The answer to his existence was his cogito argument‚ “I think‚ therefore I am”; ‘cogito ergo sum’. This means that the existence of a thinking substance
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alone‚ it can be imagined to exist in the truth likewise‚ which is more noteworthy. Along these lines if that than which a more noteworthy can’t be imagined is in the seeing alone‚ then that than which a more noteworthy can’t be considered is itself that than which a more noteworthy can be imagined. Be that as it may‚ unquestionably this can’t be‚ in this way without uncertainty something than which a more prominent can’t be imagined exist both in the understanding and in all reality." St
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Examine Descartes¡¦ account of the relationship between the mind and body. Do you find his arguments convincing? Descartes (1596-1650) is generally considered to be one of the most influential philosophers of the modern Western world. He has been called ¡¥the founder of modern philosophy¡¦ as he was the first man of any influence in philosophy to be interested and affected by physics and astronomy‚ as well as refusing to accept views of his predecessors‚ preferring to work out everything for
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Neurotransmitters Neurotransmitters are chemicals made by neurons and used by them to transmit signals to the other neurons or non-neuronal cells (e.g.‚ skeletal muscle; myocardium‚ pineal glandular cells) that they innervate. The neurotransmitters produce their effects by being released into synapses when their neuron of origin fires (i.e.‚ becomes depolarized) and then attaching to receptors in the membrane of the post-synaptic cells. This causes changes in the fluxes of particular ions across
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