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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
11/11/2013

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Psychophysics
Definition
study of relationship between properties stimuli as measured on a physical scale and the psychological impressions of those stimuli (i.e.: generate sounds/measure them - CPS)
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Humans' Hearing Threshold
Definition
20-20,000 cps (get old, high frequencies are out - old people can't hear Sam)
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Synonym for CPS
Definition
Hertz
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Megahertz
Definition
Million cycles per second
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Dog hearing
Definition
45,000 HZ
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Cat Hearing
Definition
64,000 CPS
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Porpoise
Definition
100,000 CPS
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Why study psychophysics?
Definition
-dogs in the military
-service dogs
-preventing from blowing out dog's ears
-direct/naive realism
-solupism (psychophysics disagrees with it...we don't see see, smell, or hear anything)
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Absolute threshold
Definition
look up definition
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Difference threshold
Definition
Look up definition
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Ernst Heinrich Weber (ideas, sensitivity route, book, device)
Definition
-threshold varies by part of the body (lips, breasts, etc.)
-dorsal = not sensitive (asshole dolphin), ventral = sensitive
-used a device (look up)
-lots of research on pain thresholds
-wrote "Sense of Touch"
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Field Independence
Definition
continue to make accurate judgment in murky/unclear situation (i.e.: verticality test)
-NS (regulatory system, makes hallucinations in anti-sensory chambers)
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Gustav Theodor Fechner's Book
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"The Elements of Psychophysics"
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Willhelm Wundt's thought on psychophysics
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Saw value in it
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Wilhelm Wundt (founds, childhood, education, researches with, new discipline and success of it)
Definition
-founded psych
-late bloomer
-unused med degree; goes to University of Leipzig
-researches w/ Helmholtz
-discipline = physiological psychology (success)
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Wilhelm Wundt Cont. (examples of structure, # doctoral students, 3 books, system of psychology)
Definition
-STRUCTURED (assigned all dissertations)
-186
-"Folk Psychology" (10 volumes)
-"Principles of Physiological Psychology" (6 volumes)
-"Ethics in 3 Volumes"
-Voluntarism
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Wundt's Definition of Psych (what kind of idea?)
Definition
Science that studies facts of consciousness (true for the time) - idealist (not materialist) idea
-Chemistry
-Study mind, study brain (tedious difficult)
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Read the notes on Wundt that you fell asleep during (10/16)
Definition
Term
Optimal conditioning in most situations is associated with a time lag of [blank] between the CS and the UCS
Definition
1/2 a second
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The CS is presented then turned off, a few seconds later the UCS is presented. This procedure is known as...
Definition
trace conditioning
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Pavlov won the nobel prize for his work on
Definition
digestion
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Author of "Reflexes of the Brain" and "Who Must Investigate the Problems of Psychology and How" - argued for a purely positive approach to psychology. Who was he?
Definition
Ivan Sechenov
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Pavlov's dogs salivating while he walked into the lab. What is this called?
Definition
Action at a distance
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What happens when the UCS proceeds the CS?
Definition
The dog fails to learn or learns very little
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Choleric is to sanguine as [blank]
Definition
nervous quick-tempered is to joyful and optimistic
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An unexpected or novel stimulus evokes the conditioned stimulus during extinction training. Pavlov referred to this as [blank]
Definition
disinhibition
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Dogs would often become drowsy or even sleep during trace conditioning. Pavlov took this as evidence that
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The CS produces inhibition
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Pavlov's work in psychiatry contributed to what later became known as
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Brain washing
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William James' definition of religion and book
Definition
the feelings, acts, and experiences of individuals in SOLITUDE, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they consider the divine
-Varieties
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The Meaning of the Sacred (William James)
Definition
Term
The meaning of the sacred and book (James)
Definition
-real=external
-cooperate
-live economically
-"The Will to Believe"
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Plenarism
Definition
something more
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Nihilism
Definition
nothing more
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Will to Believe and the thoughts about nihilism and plenarism
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supports plenarism (even atheists believe in something...which is nothing)
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Prayer and William James
Definition
thought it was where work was really done and psychological and material effects happened because of the spiritual energy (Tindall's research - pray for half of people who are sick
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Healthy Mindedness (who and what it means)
Definition
Walt Whitman (never hated on anything)
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Healthy-mindedness
Definition
God of love, identifiable by humans
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Sick-minded
Definition
Radical separation of God and humans - the only thing that reconciles this is prescribed belief and actions
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William James' Books
Definition
-"Varieties"
-"Will to Believe"
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James' opinion of God of Theology
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-contradictory and problem-filled (even though it is logic based)
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James and Conversion
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Loved the psychological aspect
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Mysticism and Saintliness (what he called them and thought they should be judged for)
Definition
-"religious geniuses"
-judged not produced fruits, not roots
-keep your belief system open! :)
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James' Mantra
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EXPERIENCE IS EVERYTHING
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"Persona"
Definition
mask in Latin
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Social Selves (person and explanation)
Definition
-we act differently to our mom and best friend
-James
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Continuity (in social selves)
Definition
-Are we the same as we were when we were five?
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Material Me
Definition
STUFF (spend a lot of money to maintain this person) - changes as we age
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Spiritual Me
Definition
-Self of selves
-Source of goals, plans, strategies, and psychopathology
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The Material Me is to the Id as the....
Definition
spiritual self is to the ego
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James-Lange Theory of Emotion
Definition
Emotions occur because of a physiological reaction to events (i.e.: work breakdown)
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Somatic Theory
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Emotion is the feeling in the body (can't imagine disembodied emotion)
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James' view on the order of emotion and reaction
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We are affected and then we act (i.e.: choir story...not true...Viney should have relaxed)
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Primary Memory
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Short Term
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Secondary Memory
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Long Term
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James vs. Titchener
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Moralistic vs. ?
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