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| the scientific study of behavior and the mind |
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| What is Dualism? Who was the major scientist? |
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belif that there is a mind (soul) and a physical (brain). The mind gets infor from the brain and makes desissions
Descarte (1590-1650) |
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| What is Materialism? Who was the major contributor? |
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Concept that spirit/mind is meaningless...the brain is a machine.
Hobbes (1588-1679) |
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| Where in the physical brain did descartes believe the mind was? |
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| What is Empiericism? Who founded it? |
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through that nurture was more important. British dudes.
Thought must come from physical experience. |
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| What is Nativism? Who was the founder of this belief? |
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Though that ideas are innate (nature). We are born with knowledge
Kant |
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| What is the critical question of nativism? |
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| How does the mind organize raw sensory info? |
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| What is the critical question of empiricism? |
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| what simple ideas act as building block for all the rest of ideas..how are associations made? |
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| What is phrenology? who was the beliver in it? |
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| Francis gall though the brain had specific functioning regions. And that the shape grew with use and dissuse of these parts. |
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| Who were wernickle and broca? |
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| scientists who studdys speach impediments due to brain lesions |
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intersted in the structure of the mind, in that processes can be understood as sequences od more elementary processes.
He opened the 1st school of psyc |
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| reporting on own conscious experiences |
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| What are the problems with introspections? |
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1. private and misperceptions cant be detected
2. looks at products and not processes |
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| What is behaviorism? how did it evolve? |
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| stimuli and response only.....came out fo introspections problems |
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| What is cognitive psychology? |
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| mind is focus of study, studys acuirement and organization of knolwledge |
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| what is cognitive neuroscience? |
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| major approach....structure and function |
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| what are the steps in an expierement? |
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1)Formulation of the question/theory
2) Formulation of the specific hypothesis
3) Variables--Some state or dimension that can have
different values that can be measured
4) Observations
5) Critical evaluation of the evidence
6) Communication |
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| what r the 3 measurement methods? |
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self-report
behavioral
physiological |
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| what r measurements of central tendency? |
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| what r the measurements of variability? |
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| what is the correlation coefficint? |
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| strength and direction of a correlation |
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| what r inferental statistics? |
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| confidance level dye to experement |
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| what r confounding veriables? examples |
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other than the independent that caused a change
3rd var
placebo effects |
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| something the summarizes and organizes existing information about a phenomenon. is a basis for a hypotheses to be tested |
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| horse guy. though that scepticism is good |
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| what is the differnce in bias and error? |
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| eroor is randomly assisgned and bias is same place evey time bt wrong place |
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| helper cells that create myelin sheaths |
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| how does a reflex circut work? |
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| through transission of electrical signals through sensory, internerorns and motor neurons |
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| What does the midbrain do? |
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| govern basic well-learned movment patterns like walking, running, chewing, and swallowing |
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| what does the medulla and the pons do? |
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| regulate vital reflexes like the heart rate, breathing and complex balance reflexes |
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| What does the cerebellum do? |
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| rapid, well-timed movements. Damage would reseult in postral and balance defents as well as unskilled motor activity |
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| What are considered invasive studies of brain function? |
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lesion/transection
single unit recording |
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| What are the different types of neruroimaging? |
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event related potentials (ERP)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET0
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Functional magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Tanscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
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| What are association areas? |
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| comprise a majority of the cortex and play a role in both sensory and motor processing and well as higher order mental processes |
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| What are the functional specialization of frontal areas? |
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| initate plan controll and asses behaviors |
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| What allows communication through the hemispheres |
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| How do drugs alter synapses? |
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| either block or enhaps them |
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| which side fo the brain is more in chage of language? |
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| copper coil that temporarily block fucntion |
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| recording of the brains electrical activity |
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| a neuroimaging method where you are injected with a isatope |
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| detects hemaglobin use using a magnet |
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| what does the basal ganglia do? |
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| plans movements with visual info in a feedback manor. |
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