Psychology Set 9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Genetics | the study of the inheritance of physical and psychological traits from ancestors |
| Genome | the genetic information for an organism, stored in teh DNA of its chromosomes |
| Lawful patterns | patterns that can be discovered and revealed through research |
| Lesions | injury to or destruction of brain tissue |
| Operational definition | standardizes meaning within an experiment, by defining a concept in terms of specific operations or procedures used to measure it or to determine its presence |
| Parasympathetic division | the subdivision of the autonomic nervous system that monitors the routine operation of the body's internal functions and conserves and restores body energy |
| Reticular formation | the region of the brain stem that alerts the cerebral cortex to incoming sensory signals and is responsible for maintaining consciousness and awakening from sleep |
| Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga | devised situation that could allow visual information to be presented separately to each hemisphere |
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