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PSYCO104 Lecture 5: STUDIES

PSYCO104 Lecture 6: REVIEW

PSYCO104 Lecture 7: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

You use all of your brain all the time. Neurons: neurons are the building block of the brain, approximately 100 billion neurons at birth. Types of neur

PSYCO104 Lecture 8: NEUROTRANSMITTERS

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Temporal Lobe

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Recombinant Dna, Extraversion And Introversion, Zygote

Psycho 104, lecture 9: genes, evolution & behavior. 06/02/19: every cell in your body (apart from sperm cells and egg cells) has46 chromosomes, the

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nucleus Accumbens, Dachshund, Australopithecus

Epigenetics: study of effect of external or environmental factors on genetic expression, rats with chronic exposure to cocaine produce changes gene pro

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: David Buss, Falsifiability, Social Darwinism

26/02/19: across 37 cultures, buss et al (1990) asked identical questions regarding the rank order of more important mate characteristics. 17: although

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Detection Theory, Hair Cell, Lamellar Corpuscle

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Electromagnetic Spectrum, Sclera, Retina

Decision rules: frequently, perceptual information is incomplete or ambiguous, therefore, stimulus processing from the bottom-up cannot account fully f

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Viral Video, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Stapes

Neural circuits: groups of neurons in the temporal lobe (see later) help to code specific examples of stimuli in the environment. Visual faces, auditor

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Taste Bud, Olfactory System, Tongue Map

Inter-aural intensity differences: sounds from the left will be louder at the left ear than the right ear. The head attenuates high frequencies (low fr

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: One Direction, Lesion, Evoked Potential

Consciousness: subjective awareness of internal and external events, subjective/private: other people do not have the same access to your consciousness

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lab Report, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Freerunning

Selective attention: describes our attempts to withdraw from certain aspects of our sensory environment with the aim of focusing on other aspects of ou

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Brainstem, Middle Ear

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Night Terror, Cataplexy, Shortness Of Breath

Psycho 104, lecture 24: more on sleep (26/03/19) 1981): the account is also questioned by having regular boring dreams, and repeatedly dreaming of trau

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Catalepsy, Hypnosis, Psilocybin

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Habituation, Developmental Psychology, Behaviorism

Habituation is a troublesome part of drug addiction. Long term drug users can handle" doses that to new drug users would be lethal (baker & tiffany

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Classical Conditioning, Chemotherapy, Drug Tolerance

PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Echoic Memory, Clive Wearing, Iconic Memory