Institution: Gavilan College

Keywords: aging, assembling perspective, authority, bureaucracies, collective behavior, conflict theory, conformity, crime, culture, demography, deviance, discrimination, diversity, economy, education, emergent-norm perspective, Emile Durkheim, environment, ethics, ethnicity, experiment, family, feminist theory, field research, formal organizations, functionalism, gender, global inequality, globalization, government, health, in-groups, Karl Marx, marriage, Max Weber, McDonaldization, medicine, minority groups, modernization, out-groups, politics, population, power, queer theory, race, religion, resocialization, sanctions, sex, social change, social class, social control, social movements, social stratification, social structure, socialization, sociology, stereotypes, survey, symbolic interactionism, urbanization, value-added perspective

Summary: Introduction to Sociology was written by teams of sociology professors and writers and peer-reviewed by college instructors nationwide. The textbook was developed for OpenStax College as part of its Open Educational Resources initiative. This free online text meets standard scope and sequence requirements and incorporates current events such as ... four-year school. [Expand Summary] Introduction to Sociology was written by teams of sociology professors and writers and peer-reviewed by college instructors nationwide. The textbook was developed for OpenStax College as part of its Open Educational Resources initiative. This free online text meets standard scope and sequence requirements and incorporates current events such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The text is designed for the Introduction to Sociology course at any two- to four-year school. [Collapse Summary]

Keywords: candela, circadian, cone, cornea, eye, eye anatomy, fovea, hyperopia, iris, lens, light, light transduction, myopia, photoreceptor, presbyopia, pupil, retina, retinal processing, rhodopsin, rod, sense, sensory system, sight, superior colliculus, suprachiasmatic nucleus, thrichomatic coding, tonic activity, vision

Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain how electromagnetic waves differs from sound waves Trace the path of light through the eye to the point of the optic nerve Explain tonic activity as it is manifested in photoreceptors in the retina

Keywords: five senses, just-noticeable difference, kinesthesia, mechanoreceptor, perception, proprioception, reception, receptive field, receptor potential, sense, sensory perception, sensory process, sensory receptor, sensory system, sensory transduction, transduction, vestibular sense

Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Identify the general and special senses in humans Describe three important steps in sensory perception Explain the concept of just-noticeable difference in sensory perception

Keywords: action potential, action potential propagation, brain-computer interface, charged membrane, chemical synapse, depolarization, electrical synapse, EPSP, excitatory postsynaptic potential, hyperpolarization, inhibitory postsynaptic potential IPSP, IPSP, long-term depression, long-term potentiation, LTD, LTP, membrane potential, nerve impulse transmission, nervous system, neuron communication, refractory period, resting membrane potential, saltatory conduction, signal summation, summation, synaptic cleft, synaptic plasticity, synaptic transmission, synaptic vesicle, threshold of excitation

Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe the basis of the resting membrane potential Explain the stages of an action potential and how action potentials are propagated Explain the similarities and differences between chemical and electrical synapses Describe long-term potentiation and long-term depression

Keywords: alimentary canal, amylase, animal digestion, anus, avian digestion, bile, bolus, carnivore, chyme, digestive system, duodenum, esophagus, gallbladder, gastrovascular cavity, gizzard, herbivore, ileum, jejunum, large intestine, lipase, liver, monogastric, nutrition, omnivore, pancreas, pepsin, pepsinogen, peristalsis, proventriculus, pseudo-ruminant, rectum, roughage, ruminant, salivary amylase, small intestine, sphincters, stomach, villi

Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain the processes of digestion and absorption Compare and contrast different types of digestive systems Explain the specialized functions of the organs involved in processing food in the body Describe the ways in which organs work together to digest food and absorb nutrients