General psychology

General psychology

Information concerning Psychology in general.

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primary reinforcers

Psychology; General psychology

Biologically determined reinforcers such as food and water.

PET scans

Psychology; General psychology

Brain images produced by a device that obtains detailed pictures of activity in the living brain by recording the radioactivity emitted by cells during different cognitive or behavioral activities.

interneurons

Psychology; General psychology

Brain neurons that relay messages from sensory neurons to other interneurons or to motor neurons.

ganglion cells

Psychology; General psychology

Cells in the visual system that integrate impulses from many bipolar cells in a single firing rate.

amacrine cells

Psychology; General psychology

Cells that integrate information across the retina; rather than sending signals toward the brain, amacrine cells link bipolar cells to other bipolar cells and ganglion cells to other ganglion cells.