Psy Test Ch3 & 14
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- Free association
- Clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactaly as they occur with as little censorship
- Systematic desensitization
- Behavior therapy used to reduce clients phobic responses
- Resting Potential
- Neuron is it's stable, negtative charge when the cell is inactive. -70 Charge
- AntiPsycotics
- tremors, motor problems, tardive dyskinesia, drowsiness, cottonmouth
- Dendrites
- Parts of a neuron that are specialized to recieve info.
- Agonist
- Chemical that mimics the action of a neurotransmitter
- Antidepressants
- Elevates Suicide risk
- Polyogenic Traits
- Influenced by more that one pair of genes
- Anxiety Drugs Problems
- Potention for abuse dependance overdose
- 3 Major Parts of brain and function
- Hindbrain, Midbrain, Forebrain
- Types of Antipsycotics
- Traditional Antipsy. Atypical Antipsy.
- Function of Cerebellum
- Coordination Of movement And Critical Sense of equilibrium
- Terminal Button
- Small snobs that secrete chemicals called neurotransmitters located in synapse
- Myelin sheath
- Insulating material that encases some axons
- Insight Therapy
- Talk therapy
- Electroconclusive therapy
- electic shock used to produce coritcal seizure accompanied by convultsions used to treat depression
- Spontaneous Remisson
- Psychological disorders something improve on their own.
- Action Potential
- Breif shift in a nerons electrialc charge that travels along a axon
- Chromosones
- threadlike strands of DNA molecules that carry genetic info 46 choromsones in cells
- Antagonist
- chemical that opposes the action of a nerotransmitter
- Selective Serotonine Uptake Inhibators(SSRIs)
- Most commonly prescribed antidepressant
- responsible for theory of evolution
- Darwin
- Function Of Cerebrum
- Complex thought 2 hemispheres right and left half
- Client Centerd Therapy
- insight therapy that emphasises providing a supportive emotional climate for clients who play a major roll in determining the pace and direction of therapy
- Aversion Therapy
- Classical Conditioning to create a negative response to a stimulus that has eliated problematic behavior
- Axons
- Long thin fiber that transmitts signlas away from the soma to other neruons or the muscles of glands
- Neurons
- Individual cells in the nercous system that recieve intergrate and transmitt info
- Forebrain
- Largest part of brain. Most complex region. Complex thought.
- Midbrain
- Segment of brainstem that lies between the hindbrain and forebrain Sensory processing vision and hearing
- Traditional Antipsychotics
- Motor disfuntion
- 2 Types Of cells in nervous system
- Neurons and Glia Cells
- 2 parts of central nervous systen
- Brain and spinal chord
- Darwin
- Wrote The origin of species in 1859
- Hindbrain
- includes cerebellum and two structures found in lower part of brain stem; Essential functions breathing muscles tones
- Steps in cognative behavioral therapy
- recognize, reality testing, behavioral tech.
- Atypical Antipsy.
- Fewer motor problems
- 3 Reasearch Methods In behavioral genetics
- Familiy Genetics, Twin Studies, Adoption Studies.
- Treatments for psychtherapy
- Insight, Behavioral, Biomedical
- What does the endocine system release
- Hormones
- Natural Selection
- Hereitable ch. That provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely than alternative ch. to be passed on to subsequent generations and this come to be selcted over time.
- Neuro transmitter
- Chemicals that transmitt info from one neuron to another