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Psychology Midterm 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/04/2010

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James Gibson
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Direct Perception Theory - environment is inherently structured, we become in tune to that structure; Animal World Reciprocity - animal structure and environment are interdependent
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Pittenger & Shaw
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Cardioidal strain - objects on face go up relatively as you age
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Gestalt
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Laws of Organization: figure-grounded relationship, closure, proximity, figural goodness, common movement, similarity
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Warren
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Phonemic restoration - hear things because we expect them through context; syntax gives mental hints, experience
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Turnbull
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lived with Bambuti pygmy tribe, people had not learned size constancy, he took them out of rainforest for first time
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Eleanor Gibson
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visual cliff, placed kid in middle of table; depth perception is innate
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René Descartes
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body generates heat, moves without soul's influence; dualism
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Thomas Hobbes
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soul is meaningless, there is only energy and matter - materialism
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Charles Darwin
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father of evolution, Origin of Species - scientific grounding for psychology, natural selection, survival of the fittest
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Wilhelm Wundt
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founder of scientific psychology - complex processes are sequences of elementary processes - foundations of cognitive psychology; STRUCTURALISM; more analytical; imags, sensations, and feelings are basic contents
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Titchener
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Structuralism, examine one's own conscious experience through introspection
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William James
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Functionalism - ask what it is for, then look at whole thing & its larger parts to see how it fulfills those purposes; idea of instincts; influenced by Darwin
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John Watson
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BEHAVIORISM - study behavior rather than mind; identify environmental conditions causing behavior; S-R psychology, all is response to stimuli, anti-mentalism
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B.F. Skinner
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behavioralist founded in functionalism:k operant response - any behavioral action that operates on environment to produce a consequence
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Sigmund Freud
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work with patients with problems buried in 'unconscious mind'; psychoanalysis; bulk of mental activity is unconscious; childhood experience influences self
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Pavlov
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experiment with Condition Simuli in dogs salivating
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Simon LeVey
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difference in hypothalamus in straight vs. gay individuals
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Don Brown
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universal traits
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Paul Eckman
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6 basic emotions conveyed by facial expressions
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Phineas Gage
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railroad worker with pole through head, damaged frontal lobe behidn eyes, changed personality
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Jeanny
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child locked in attic for 13 years, could not learn things because she missed the period in life where she could
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Gazzaniga
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test if language in right hemisphere at all; found abilities of 4-5 year old, recognition of very basic nouns
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Wispe & Drambarian
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experiment with people who had and had not eaten, affected people's perceptual threshold
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Roger Sperry
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research with split brain patients
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