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Dick's Guide to Psychology. The myelin sheath "insulates the axons of some neurons and helps speed their impulses". In multiple sclerosis the myelin sheath decays..
Material in quotation marks, unless otherwise attributed, is from
Exploring Psychology by David G. Meyers
If you want a 2002 edition of this book, well marked with
information and question answers, send $25 to Dick Amann, 1348 Eisenhower Drive,
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Also see these other psychology sites.
Origins of psychiatry
Guide to Psychology and its originating fields of
science.
William Wundt, the worlds first psychological
experimenter with his own university laboratory.
Guide to Psychology. Introspection and
psychology and William Wundt
John Watson redefines psychology as the science
of behavior
Psychology as defined today
What is behavior and its role in psychology?
What is the mental process
Comparison of psychology and psychiatry
The four goals of psychology
Careers in psychology
Clinical and counseling psychologists
Community psychologists
Psychology uses the scientific method
Guide to Psychology. In psychological
research the aim is to get reliability, replicable results, representative
results and validity.
In psychological research the population of an experiment is "all the cases in a group from which samples may be drawn to study"
In psychological research a random sampling is "a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion"
In psychological experiments, the independent variable is manipulated to see how it affect the dependent variable, i.e. behavior or mental process
Psychological research can involve experiments
that explore cause and effect relationships, correlational studies that determine naturally occurring relationships and
descriptive studies that record and observe behavior
Franz Gall (early 1800's) invented phrenology to determine peoples' mental abilities and character traits by studying the bumps on people's heads.
Phineas Gage was a railroad employee in 1848 whose frontal lobe was impaled by a metal rod. His mental abilities and memories were intact, but his personality changed. From a soft spoken, friendly guy he became an irritable, profane and dishonest.
A neuron is a "nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system", where "bushy dendrites receive information while axons pass it along to other neurons, muscles or glands"
The myelin sheath "insulates the axons of some neurons and helps speed their impulses". In multiple sclerosis the myelin sheath decays.
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