TERMS TO KNOW from BOOK and LECTURE:
	

			INTRO TOPICS: CHAPTER 1 and 2

types of psychologists		fields of specialization		goals of psychology		hypotheses
psychology		scientific method		origins of psychology		trephoning
DesCartes' Dualism		Wilhelm Wundt 		Great Psych Systems/Schools	structuralism 
functionalism		behaviorism		gestaltists			psychoanalytics 
eclectic views		survey method		surveys			correlations
experimental method		independent variable		dependent variable		placebo group
naturalistic observation		correlational studies		naturalistic observation		control group
positive/neg. correlation	experimental group(s)		reactivity			hawthorne effect
double blind procedure		pygmalion effect		ethics in human research	animal ethics

		
			CHAPTER 3 
neurons			parts of a neuron	soma			dendrites
axon			synaptic vesicles	terminals/terminal buttons	glial cells
myelin sheath		CNS vs PNS	neural transmission		resting potential
action potential		refractory period	temporal summation		all-or-none
spatial summation		neurotransmitters	excitatory/inhibitory effects	receptor cells
affector/sensory cells		effector/motor cells	acetylcholine (ACh)		dopamine (DA)
norepinephrine (NE)		seratonin (5HT)	GABA			histamine
parkinson's disease		schizophrenia and DA	meninges			cerebral spinal fluid
spinal cord			afferent vs. efferent	somatic nervous system	peripheral N.S.
autonomic nervous system	central nervous system	parasympathetic nervous system	sympathetic N.S.
hindbrain			forebrain		midbrain/tectum		cerebellum
cerebrum/cerebral cortex	spinal reflexes	reticular formation		medulla
pons			thalamus		hypothalamus		limbic system
4 F's of hypothalamus		hippocampus	amygdala			parietal lobe
occipital lobe		temporal lobe	frontal lobe			sulci and gyri
convolutions of cortex		Wernicke's area	Broca's area		left vs right brain
corpus callosum		split-brain research	pituitary gland		endocrine system
hormones			pituitary		phrenology			EEG
PET scan			CAT scan		MRI and fMRI		neural plasticity

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