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Which wave of psychology does Gestalt psychology belongs to

Gestalt psychology is a type of Humanistic-Existentialist psychology.

The axon is connected to the soma by the

axon hillock

The mind is like a parachute it won't work unless it is open

Yes because the mind does not work if the brain is not functional. While sleeping the mind still works but not as powerfully as when awake. The brain however constantly works to provide the body with necessary abilities, for example telling the heart to beat, and telling the body to move. But the mind will not work if it's not, "open." So technically the mind is always, "open" but we can control it to open more towards other things, when we are thinking and are awake..

What part of the brain processes visual information

The visual cortex processes visual information in the brain. This part is present in occipital lobe.

Selective attention refers to the fact that

We are able to focus on one stimulus

What are the building blocks of the nervous system

Legoes.

What you see is carried to the occipital lobe by the

optic nerve (at the back of the eye) which then crosses at the optic chiasm. From this point, the optic tracts travel to the lateral geniculate nucleus, and then on to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe.

The autonomic nervous system consists of what parts

. Parasympathetic

and Sympathetic

Receptors in the ear that translate sound waves into nerve impulses are

mechanoreceptors

What is The process by which your sensory receptors receive and process information is called

Sensation

What is the body's information processing center

The central nervous system (CNS) :)

Is autonomic central system part of central nervous system

The autonomic system is part of the peripheral nervous system, not the central nervous system.

The idea that our bodies help our minds think is called

Embodied cognition

When our brain fills in missing pieces this is called

the feature phenomenon

You are on a carnival ride that makes you very dizzy What could be causing this

Your vestibular sense.

Top-down processing can be best described as

Answer this question… Top-down processing can be best described as: A. changing smoothly, without distinct stages. B. looking at individual pieces of an image and then perceiving what the entire image shows. C. perceiving what is shown in an image and then looking at individual pieces of it. D. recognizing objects apart from the background.

in vision, would occur when light from an object enters your eye and is converted to nerve impulses

transduction

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