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UCSD | PSYC 1
Psychology
Professors
- Stuart Antsis,
- Ferriera,
- Chenier,
- Burd
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SOME SAMPLE QUESTIONS 1. Dr. Anderson conducts an experiment to see whether exposure to helpful models leads to helping behavior in young children. Of the forty girls and boys in his study, half are exposed to helpful models while the other half watch the -
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Chapter 6 Practice Questions 1. The fact that perceptions cannot be explained in terms of the sum of our sensations best illustrates the importance of: A. top-down processing. B. interposition. C. retinal disparity. D. visual capture. 2. Which of the foll -
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Chapter 7 Practice Questions 1. Ivan Pavlov noticed that dogs began salivating at the mere sight of the person who regularly brought food to them. For the dogs, the sight of this person was a(n): A. primary reinforcer. B. unconditional stimulus. C. immedi -
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Chapter 8/9 Practice Questions 1. Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrins classic three-stage model of memory includes all of the following, EXCEPT: A. short-term memory B. long-term memory C. explicit memory D. sensory memory 2. When you hear familiar wor -
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Chapter 12 Review Questions 1. Which theory would suggest that you experience the emotion of anger at the same time that your heart begins to beat rapidly? A. James-Lange theory B. Cannon-Bard theory C. two-factor theory D. Common-sense theory 2. If peopl -
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Chapter 13 Review Questions 1. Early in the day, you see a fellow student in the cafeteria spill a whole tray of food as she trips over something on the floor. You think to yourself, Wow, she sure is clumsy! Later on in the day, you also trip in the cafet -
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Chapter 14 Review Questions 1. Ryans social phobia has led him to lose jobs and relationships. In this case, Ryan has a disorder because his behavior is: A. dangerous. B. common. C. medically based. D. dysfunctional. 2. If researchers discovered that gene -
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Chapter 16 Review Questions 1. Bart complied with his friends request to join them in smashing decorative pumpkins early one Halloween evening. Later that night he was surprised by his own failure to resist their pressures to throw eggs at passing police -
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Question # 1 The parable of The Blind Men and the Elephant would seem to be quite relevant to the eld of psychology. How so? In your answer, be sure to identify who the blind men in psychology are and what the elephant is. In relating your answer to the p -
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Question #6 Before going to sleep one night, Jill reads her daughter, Stacey, a bedtime story. The book is lled with pictures. In particular, there is a reoccurring picture of a character that always wears a bright purple shirt. Stacey is fascinated by th -
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Question #10 Youre a young knight errant and youve been commissioned to slay a hideous dragon. After an arduous trek up the mountain, you nally reach its lair. You enter and immediately announce, I am Sir/Dame (enter your own name) and Ive come to put a s -
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THE STORY OF PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 0 THE STORY OF PSYCHOLOGY Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. Herman Ebbinghaus 1850-1909 FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY The First Psychology Experiment? Performed by Psamtik 1, king of Egypt, in the 7th centur -
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EARLY 20TH CENTURY PSYCHOLOGY Behaviorism Watson publishes Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it in 1913 in which he outlines the behaviorist position. Introspection was dropped, the contents of the mind were o limits; instead, the concern was with under -
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THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD Research Designs Description Example Case Study In depth investigation of a single individual using direct interview, direct observation, and other techniques Detailed study of an individual with a neurological disorder (e.g., a phan -
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STATISTICS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 1. Descriptive Statistics Correlation A correlation exists when two variables are related to each other. A correlation may either be: Negative Correlation Positive Correlation Student High School GPA College GPA Studen -
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STUDYING THE BRAIN: INVASIVE METHODS 1. Electrical Stimulation This involves directly electrically stimulating areas of the brain to see how it aects behavior or mental functioning. Illustration: The Homunculus Peneld and Jaspers (1954) electrically stimu -
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THE BRAIN: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION The Divided Brain - How? Vogel and Bogen (1961), two Los Angeles neurosurgeons, in an eort to curb epilepsy in their patients decided to cut the corpus callosum, the large band of neural bers that connects the two hemisph -
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INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD Social Development 2. Dierences in Attachment Placed in a strange situation: 60% of children display secure attachment, that is, they explore their environment happily in the presence of their mothers. When she leaves, they are dist -
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FIRST MIDTERM Monday, April 18th 45 multiple choice questions It will cover lecture notes 1 to 8 and chapters 1, 2, 3 (what we cover Friday), 5 and the prologue. Most questions will come from lectures and associated sections in the text, but some question -
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SENSATION AND PERCEPTION Chapter 6 SEEING THE WORLD: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS Sensation and Perception Sensation Perception Refers to the process by which we detect physical energy (a stimulus) from the environment and convert it into neural signals. Refers to -
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OUR SENSES - VISION Visual Information Processing - Focus on Color Vision The opponent-process theory suggests that opposing retinal processes (red-green, yellowblue, white-black) enable color vision. Photoreceptors Bipolar Cell To Brain for Interpretatio -
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PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Perceptual Interpretation - Perceptual Set Perceptual Set refers to a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another. Priming Eects PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Perceptual Interpretation - Perceptual Set Perceptual Set refe -
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CLASSICAL VS. OPERANT CONDITIONING Classical Conditioning involves forming associations between stimuli (a CS and an US it signals). It involves respondent behavior - actions that are automatic responses to a stimulus (salivating in response to meat powde -
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OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING Observational Learning is learning by observing others. Modeling refers to the process of observing and imitating a specic behavior. OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING Albert Bandura - Bobo Doll Experiments - Modeling Aggression Albert Bandura -
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MIDTERM 2 - MONDAY MAY 9TH 45 questions The exam covers everything SINCE the last midterm: chapter 6 (sensation and perception), chapter 7 (learning), chapter 8 (memory) and the chapter 9 (only thinking parts - pages 369 - 382). Remember to bring question -
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PSI CHI - UCSD PSYCHOLOGY CLUB Interested in psychology? Planning on going to grad school? Then come out to Psi Chi/the UCSD Psychology Clubs PIZZA AND A PANEL GBM #3 of spring quarter! We will be hosting UCSD psychology grad students who can tell you the -
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MIDTERM 2 - MONDAY MAY 9TH 45 questions The exam covers everything SINCE the last midterm: chapter 6 (sensation and perception), chapter 7 (learning), chapter 8 (memory) and the chapter 9 (only thinking parts - pages 369 - 382). Remember to bring question -
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EMOTION, STRESS AND HEALTH Chapter 12 REMINDER IN HONOR OF THE GOD OF THE SUN, THERE WILL BE NO LECTURE FRIDAY (MAY 13 TH). SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY! EMOTION An emotion involves a response of the whole organism, and has three important components: 1. Physiolog -
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TYPES OF EMOTIONS Fear 1. Description and Function Fear describes an emotional reaction to threatening, immanent danger with a strong desire to escape the situation. Fear prepares our bodies to ee from the situation and thus protects us from harm Fearful -
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HEALTH PROMOTION How can we cope with stress? 1. Try to take control Research with rats and humans indicates that the absence of control over stressors causes a rise in stress hormones, an increase in blood pressure and compromised immune system functioni -
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 16 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Social psychology is the scientic study of how peoples thoughts, feelings and behaviors are inuenced by the real or imagined presence of others. ATTITUDES An attitude refers to the thoughts and feelings we ho -
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SOCIAL INFLUENCE Obedience A change in the beliefs or behaviors of a person as a result of direct orders to do so by an authority gure. How do people respond to an outright command from an authority gure? The Stanley Milgram Obedience Studies (1963, 1974) -
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PERSONALITY Chapter 13 PERSONALITY Personality refers to an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE Psychoanalysis is: The techniques used to expose and interpret unconscious intentions and to th -
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PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS Chapter 14 DEFINING PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS How do we dene a psychological disorder? 1. Deviant Being dierent from most other people in ones culture. Assent - and you are sane Demur - youre straightaway dangerous And handled with a -
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FINAL - THURSDAY JUNE 9TH The nal exam is cumulative (3:00 pm to 6:00 pm) - approximately 75 questions Approximately 50 questions will come from the last third of the course: Chapter 12 (Emotions, Stress, Health), Chapter 13 (Personality), Chapter 14 (Psy -
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PERSONALITY DISORDERS Personality disorders are psychological disorders characterized by inexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. Types Avoidant Personality Disorder Extreme fear of rejection that causes social withdrawal Hi -
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What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage By AMY SUTHERLAND (July 06) AS I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband paces behind me, irritated. \"Have you seen my keys?\" he snarls, then huffs out a loud sigh and stomps from the room with our dog, Dixi -
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4/4/2012 Welcome to PSYC 1! 1 4/4/2012 Discussion Topic: What are some adjectives that describe a psychologist? What are some adjectives that describe a scientist? Chapter 1 An Introduction to Psychology 2 4/4/2012 Welcome to the Study of Psychology! T -
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4/4/2012 Chapter 2 The Tools of Psychological Research The Scientific Method Recall: Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mind Four main steps of scientific investigation: Observe Detect Regularities Generate Hypothesis Observe Also ne -
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4/18/2012 Chapter 5 Sensation and Perception (We will only cover vision in this class. You may skip all other senses.) Vision: Learning Goals 1. For the tests you do not need to know anything about vision that is not in THIS lecture. If I talk about it, -
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4/25/2012 Chapter 7 Learning From Experience Habituation and Sensitization Orienting response: Turning toward a new event After repeated exposure to an event: Habituation: Reduced responding to the Reduced responding to the event Sensitization: Increa -
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5/2/2012 Chapter 8 Memory Memory: Overview Memory: The capacity to preserve and recover information Involves several important processes: Encoding: How memories are formed Storage: How memories are kept over time How memories are kept over time Retri -
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5/7/2012 Chapter 9 Language and Thought The Structure of Language Grammar sets language apart from other communication systems Set of rules that allow the communicator to combine arbitrary symbols to convey meaning Three aspects: Phonology: Rules for -
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5/9/2012 Chapter 10 Intelligence What Is Intelligence? Adaptive mind perspective: Ability to solve the problems that are unique to your environment Advantage of this perspective: Isnt unique to humans Disadvantage: Does not consider individual differen -
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5/16/2012 Chapter 11 Emotions Emotions What is an emotion? Understood, colloquial meaning Scientific meaning 3 components: 1. Autonomic Response 2. Behavioral Response 3. Psychological Response What regulates emotions? Amygdala (Greek for almond) Mostl -
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5/14/2012 Chapter 11 Motivation and Emotion Whats It For? Motivation Activating Behavior Meeting Biological Needs Hunger and Eating Sexual Behavior Behavior Instincts Unlearned characteristic patterns of responding triggered by specific external stim -
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5/21/2012 Chapter 12 Personality What Is Personality? Set of psychological characteristics that differentiates us from others and leads us to act consistently across situations Involves the study of individual differences in personality traits Trait: Pr -
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Chapter 13 Part 1 Social Psychology Person Perception Attractive people assumed to have more positive characteristics This tendency cuts across cultures, age groups Social schemas: General knowledge structure in long-term memory, relating to social experi -
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5/30/2012 Chapter 14 Psychological Disorders Note of Caution Regarding Learning About Psychological Disorders: Beware of Medical Student Disease! It is common for people to start thinking, OMGosh! That sounds like ME, or, That sounds like my (friend/famil -
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6/4/2012 Important Announcements Final Exam is next Tuesday in this room from 8am 11am. DONT BE LATE! (If you come in late, and anyone has finished and turned their exam in, you will get a ZERO.) Bring a #2 pencil with an eraser Will cover ALL Lecture -
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What does it mean to understand something? Example: Why do we like sex? Common sense: Desires, needs, fun, want to Brain science: Trace the neural pathways (but does this tell us why?) Evolutionary psychology: Sexual behavior has evolved to ensure surviv -
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The Brain Nervous system: Central = brain + spinal cord Peripheral = everything else Whole NS is made of NEURONS = nerve cells. Signals travelling ALONG neurons are electrical impulses = spikes Signals BETWEEN neurons are chemicals = neurotransmitters ( -
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The Brain Nervous system: Central = brain + spinal cord Peripheral = everything else Whole NS is made of NEURONS = nerve cells. Signals travelling ALONG neurons are electrical impulses = spikes Signals BETWEEN neurons are chemicals = neurotransmitters ( -
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Perception is an active process, involving effort after meaning We attribute meaning, even purpose, to moving dots Heider.Michotte.Mov 1. Perceiving color Finding fruit Finding mates Relative responsiveness of cones Blue cones 1.0 Rods Green Red cones con -
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Psy1 Introductory Psychology Prof. Stuart Anstis PhD Denise Cai MA Shiloh Krieger MA TODAY: SENSATION color Perception is an active process, involving effort after meaning We attribute meaning, even purpose, to moving dots Heide -
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Brightness: http:/persci.mit.edu/gallery.html Motion: http:/epunix.biols.susx.ac.ujk/Home/George_Mather/Moti Illusions (This site now DOWN) http:/www.illusionworks.com General vision: http:/visionscience/com/ Card trick: http:/loftcam.com/trick3.html Illu -
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Psy1 Introductory Psychology Prof. Stuart Anstis PhD Denise Cai MA Shiloh Kireger MA TODAY: ATTENTION TAs car Limited capacity processor Reaction times Reaction Can tell us something about mental Can processes! processes! If something takes longer, there -
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Psy 1 Today: Attention Learning & conditioning LEARNING =any behavioral change caused by experience Nature versus Nurture: Innate versus Acquired Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, 1902 How the Leopard got his spots How the Alphabet was made How the Came -
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Psychology 1 Memory Prof. Stuart Anstis Poor memory vs. Incorrect memory Eye witness testimony: Loftuss misinformation experiment Would you really want a perfect memory that retained everything? Clutter? Immediate memory Short term memory Long term memory -
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Psychology 1 Memory Prof. Stuart Anstis Bartlett: Method of serial reproduction One night two young men from Egulac went down to the river to hunt seals, and while they were there it became foggy and calm. Then they heard war-cries, and they thought: \"May -
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Memory Consolidation (LTM) Explicit memory Medial temporal lobe; diencephalon Implicit memory Classical conditioning Priming (neocortex) Facts (semantic) Events (episodic) Procedural memory: skills & habits Skeletal musculature (basal ganglia) (cerebellum -
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Psy1:IntroductiontoPsychology Development 12.Harlow\'sStudiesonDependencyinMonkeys 13.TestingCompetencyintheNewborn 14.ReflexesintheNewborn 15.ObjectPermanence 16.StrangerAnxiety 17.Morelli\'sStrangeSituationTest 18.Piaget\'sConservationTask 19.BodyPartCount -
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Psy1 Introductory Psychology Prof. Stuart Anstis PhD Denise Cai MA Shiloh Krieger MA TODAY: FOOD cultural factors in eating Sch -
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PSY 1 Anstis - Cai - Krieger Announcements: Office hours in Espresso Roma today Party on Sunday, February 28th, 11 am 111, 11th St, Del Mar Today: INTELLIGENCE Please come to my spring Party 111, 11th St, Del Mar FAQ: Free Food? Is this a Joke? - - NO - -
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Psychology 1 Psychology Language Prof. Stuart Anstis Denise Cai Shiloh Krieger Have you ever been diagnosed as dyslexic? Would you like to read more effectively? Participate in a reading improvement study! Does your reading take a lot of effort and is sl -
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Psy 1 Psy Mental disorders and their Mental treatment treatment Mental disorders Anxiety disorders Phobias Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) Panic Mood disorders Dysthymia (mild, persistent depression) Major (clinical) depression Bipolar (manic-dep -
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Pscyhology Memory 1 Bartlett: Method of serial reproduction How it gets changed and degraded o Active part and tries to get reconstructed o Story got much shorter o Effort after meaning o Salient details often retained some stuff happened But thats okay o -
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Emotion- art murder, suicidie Study of emotion was ignored by 20th century scientists Emotion- a state of feeling Defining Emotion - Emotion is inferred, not observed - Emotion is a reaction to a stimulus o Mood is not linked to a stimulus - Emotions are -
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Memory Loftuss misinformation experiment - Changed the verb of the crash experiment o More intense verbs Higher mph Would you really want a perfect memory that retained everything? - Clutter - All the dull parts cut out Structure of human memory - Immedia -
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Memory Consolidation (LTM) Sleeping memory Sensory input-> process it and some goes to short term memory (rehearsal) long term memory - People believed for al ong time that in order to get to long term memory it had to go to short term memory o But recent -
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Development Very slide oriented Harlows studies on dependency in monkeys - Believed moneky became attached to mother primarly because of food o Studied showed monkey preferred clothed mother o Comfort contact Overshadowed nursing o Contact with the mother -
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Motivation: Food and Sex Drives our behavior If no motivation- wouldnt do anything Different drives have different strengths Hypothalamus eating and drinking behavior After lesion to hypothalamus weight regulation goes wry Social and cultural factors in e -
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Sex and Gender Sexual stereotypes Very different perception of each sex - Value in society Daughters are seen as beautiful weak and fragile Sons are seen as strong and alert Very different psychological and social environments Gender is learned rather tha -
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Intelligence Bene- test for school children - Separate retard kids - Identify areas where students needed help - Quantification of students performance Test results expressed in mental age Benes test great impact In America - Assessment, order in a chaoti -
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Intelligence Bene- test for school children - Separate retard kids - Identify areas where students needed help - Quantification of students performance Test results expressed in mental age Benes test great impact In America - Assessment, order in a chaoti -
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Attention Learning & Conditioning Ivan Pavlov - Conditioning, eg dog salivating when dog sees food o Salivation reflex o Dogs were learning to anticipate food Conditioned reflex Memorize these terms: - Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned reponse o Innat -
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Neural development Start with long strainy threads then shrink then become a lot Touch, Taste, Hearing, Smell, Vision Taste is a response to liquid stimuli Seeing Words Hearing Words When seeing words back brain is active, when hearing words front brain i -
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More than half of the brain is devoted to vision Perception is more like grasping out with your hands, needs an active effort for meaning Meaningless blob to real object Why do we see the world in color use color vision to find the ripe fruit of the green -
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Retinal images- upside down Depth cues - Monocular o Size (perspective) Visual angle o Haze - Binocular Linear perspective Texture Gradient- eg a field of flowers Aerial Perspective Size constancy: our ability to perceive the true physical size of objects -
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Illusions Ambiguous pictures- visual puns w/ more than interpretations - Proof readers error Puzzle pictures Geometrical Illusions - Two types of theories o Inappropriate depth judgments & constancy scaling o Low-level interactions between orientations de -
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Attention Limited capacity processor - Person driving car while talking on the phone o What about talking to your passenger Reaction times - Can deduce whats going on inside - Visual search o Fast, easy, parallel, pre-attentive search Green spots, find on -
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30 MC, 5 short answers Number 2 pencil, large pink scantron, Majority of exam covered in lecture and overlap in text Skinner - Used a maze like everyone use, - Skinner made a simpler maze - Took the whole maze and put it on a tetter-totter - Cumulative re -
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Psychopathology=study of mental disorders Experiences or genetic makeup Because we can love we can be jealous b/c we can think of the future we can fear the uncerantiies Mental disorder - 1/5 american suffer from some social disorder Classify disorder - K -
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Speech and Language Difference between Sign and Symbol Birds cannot talk about danger like we do when there is danger or not The structure of language - Words ,letters, sentence o Letters Vowels louder Meaning present in constants o Words Rules of spellin -
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Mental Orders and their treatments Depression is the common cold of the psyche Schizophrenics dontt get parkinsons disease and vice versa Reason: Schizopherenics have too much dopamine, Parkinsons have too little Dopamine Which disorder was the one that y -
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spatial neglect Frontal lobe Cerebellum Occipital lobe Parietal lobe neural plasticity Phantom limbs Split brain Wernickes aphasia Balints syndrome Thorndikes Law of Effect states Skinner, the behaviorist - Stimulus in [black box] response out Signals BET -
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Philosophy Pg 13 and so forth 13 How do learning and cognitive explanations differ from each other? How might each be applied toward an understanding of jealously. Essentially all forms of human behavior and mental experience are modifiable by learning. D -
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The Brain One of the most complex things More neurons in the brain than ppl alive today Nervous system brain + spinal cord Everything else is the peripheral nervous system The whole ns is made of neurons or nerve cells- nerve cells sends signals Spikes ar -
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Defining Emotion Emotion is inferred, not observed Emotion is a reaction to a stimulus Emotions are functional Emotions include three aspects: Cognition/Appraisal Feeling/Sensation Action tendency I. II. Defining Emotion Feeling Theories of Emotion I. C -
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Minter 1 Psychology Textbook: (1,2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11) CHAPTER 1: Foundation of the study of Psychology - psychology: the science of behavior and the mind - behavior: refers to the observable actions of a person or an animal - mind: refers to an individ -
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Midterm II: Introduction to Psychology: Practice Items 1. Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the: A) optic nerve. B) sensory receptors. C) cerebral cortex. D) feature detectors. Ans: B Goal: Objective 1 Level: Easy Page: 197 Sect -
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Quality of Care affects the Quality of Attachment Infants will become securely attached to a mother who provides contact comfort, responds promptly and sensitively to the infant\'s signal of distress, and interacts with the infant in an emotionally sy -
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Week 1: Learning - Learning in the behaviorist framework - behaviorism: science should avoid terms that refer to mental entities (thoughts, emotions, motives) b/c cant be directly observed - psych should focus on relationship b/w observable events in -
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Week 6-7: Higher Order Processes - Automaticity - mind has capacity to perform routine tasks automatically, which frees conscious, working memory for creativity/emergencies - ex: driving a car tasks become automatic over time to devote attention to -
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Levels of neurophysiological description BRAIN NETWORK NEURON NEURONS Purpose of neurons is to transmit information 100 billion neurons in the brain 1/20th-1 hair width in diameter Speed transmission 2-120 metres/sec Each neuron has about 10,000
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