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| Goldstien's description of Sarah |
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| Although what sarah was doing seemed simple, the processes of interpreting were actually complex |
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| Measuring the time-course of mental processes. How long a mental process takes |
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| Mental responses such as decision making cannot be measured, they have to be inferred |
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| When presented a stimulus how long it takes to respond. I.E. presented a light, hit a button |
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| How long it takes to respond to a stimulus when making a choice. I.E. Light on left or right side, pick button to press |
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| Helmholtz unconscious inference |
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| Some of our perceptions are the result of unconscious assumptions that we make about the environment based on our past experience in similar situations |
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| Memorized lists of nonsense syllables and measured how long it took him to relearn. Measured relearning time. Provided a way to quantify memory. |
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| Presenting a stimulus to someone and having them describe their feelings and thoughts about it. |
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| Began behaviorism. Psychology should focus only on observable behaviors |
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| Skinner-operant conditioning |
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| Strengthened by positive and negative reinforcement |
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| Skinner's book "Verbal Behavior" |
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| Children learn language by imitation and reinforcement. |
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| Theorized that language is an inborn biological program rather than imitation and reinforcement |
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| Breland and Breland-B&B Raccoon |
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| Tried to traina raccoon to drop coins in a piggy bank. Raccoon rubbed coins together. Discovered that biology can interfere with conditioning. |
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| Donald Broadbent-(broadband Computers+mind) |
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| first to describe the mind as thinking in stages much like a computer does. |
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| no cognitive revolution...rather gradual change |
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| Some described word with an image, some spelled back words. Words paired with image remembered better. |
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| Place where memory is largely processed |
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| Gauthier and his Greebles |
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| Determined that over time people can learn to recognize abnormal, yet similar faces with enough training. And reduced brain activity when looking at normal faces. |
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| Multidisciplinary approach to the mind |
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| Three structures of neurons Include |
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| Dendrite, Cell body, and axon |
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| Transformation of one form of energy to another |
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| Increase to intensity of stimulus does what |
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| Where are neurotransmitters stored |
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| Synaptic vesicles in the axon terminal |
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| Interaction of a number of neurons that cause a target neuron or group of neurons to respond to specific stimuli. |
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| Group of neurons that synapse together |
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| Thought, impulse control, attention, decision-making, memory, motor functioning, language production |
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| Hearing, memory(new memory), Language, vision(identify objects) |
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| Detect touch and pain, location of objects and body parts(spacial awareness) |
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| Emotions,build memories with emotional events |
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| Forming new memories;transferring short term to long term |
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| Relaying info from senses; relays sensory stimuli to appropriate area of cortex to be further processed |
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| Shapes and human faces. Damage=posopagnosia(can't recognize faces) |
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| Visual perception of movement |
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| Single dissociation Vs. Double dissociation |
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Single=damage to brain effects one thing but not another part.
Double=Person A and B injure same part of brain. A has certain damage B has different damage |
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| Look at structures of the brain, determine which areas are active, show patterns of blood flow. |
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| Show structure of single neuron |
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| PET AND FMRI Use what technique |
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| Subtraction Technique. Measure activity level before and after activity. |
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| Study on Cat's(raised vertical) |
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