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Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
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Grace Truong

Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Jeremy Hosking

Catherine (Cathy) Rankin

Clark, Luke

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PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Learning Curve, Empirical Research, Scientific Method

Learning curve on launchpad (due sunday 16 11:59) Ppl couldn"t tell so someone took a lot of pictures, so could observe and see if its true. Explaining

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Inflectional Phrase, Neuroplasticity

Rec some of the most infl people in the history of psych. Knowledge is innate or inborn (born the way we are) Nature vs nurture varies from illness to

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Learning Curve, Empirical Research, Scientific Method

Learning curve on launchpad (due sunday 16 11:59) Ppl couldn"t tell so someone took a lot of pictures, so could observe and see if its true. Explaining

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Observer-Expectancy Effect, Confirmation Bias, Scatter Plot

Pre-existing beliefs infl our view and integration of new evidence. It is statistically proven that storks deliver babies! (let"s investigate further)

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Statistical Inference, Replication Crisis, Shooter Game

Manipulate one variable and test the effect on the other variable. Steps of designing experiments: manipulation of independent v, measure dependent v,

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Autonomic Nervous System, Fusiform Face Area, White Matter

Connection between central system and muscles and nerves. Heart rate blood pressure and respiration (pump oxygen to muscles) Cold feet and hands (blood

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frequency Distribution, Inflectional Phrase, Casual Dating

Learning curve: due sunday, 16th by midnight (2a) Operational definition: description of a property in concrete, measurable terms. Instrument: anything

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Commissure, Gyrus, Hindbrain

Left mostly receives input from and controls the right side of the body. Right mostly receives input from and controls the left side of the body. Visio

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Schwann Cell, Retina, Neuroglia

Happens to 75% of ppl who lose part of their body. If your face takes over what your hand used to be, when sensations to your face, it will feel as if

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Neural Oscillation

If able to read out the signals of the brain, could they change it? (influence brain activity) Lower accuracy to localize and reach for moving objects.

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neurodegeneration, Prefrontal Cortex, Glutamine

Any kind of mental illnesses could be explained by these factors, and they all play a role in the existence/development of the mental illness. Neurons

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Internal Validity

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Color Vision, Receptive Field, Color Blindness

Make study guide of learning outcomes for midterms! Basic registration of light, sound, pressure, taste, odor. Perception the organization, identificat

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Optic Chiasm, Visual Cortex

From the eye to the primary visual cortex. Path of signal: retina, optical tract, cross over at optic chiasm, lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamu

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Inattentional Blindness, Outer Ear, Sound

When ppl fail to detect changes to the visual details of a scene. Failure to perceive objects that are not the focus of attention. Detection of sound w

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cribriform Plate, Caffeine, Haptic Perception

Taste and smell guide feeding and social interactions. Combo of taste, smell, and mouth feel that leads to the overall rep for a particular food. Mucou

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Parietal Lobe, Withdrawal Reflex, Vestibular System

Left half of body is rep by right half of brain and vice versa. Areas of the body where sensitivity to small spatial differences is greatest are most r

PSYC 101 Lecture 20: sleep and dreaming

Word pairing in the conscious and unconscious. Either do a distracting task, and then choose, or just choose right away. Leg does a huge twitch i. ii:

PSYC 101 Lecture 21: Drugs and Addiction

Chems that infl consciousness or behaviour by altering the brain"s chem messenger system. Drug use: quest for an altered state of consciousness, a brea

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory

Can accurately remember any day from the last 30 yrs. Can memorize over 20 numbers after a single glance. Holds nonsensory info for more than a few sec

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Memory

Type of storage that holds info for hrs, days, weeks, or years. Had hippocampus and some surrounding medial temp lobes surgically removed. Can converse

PSYC 101 Lecture 27: Different forms of long term memory

Thoughts that we have (that we did yesterday or something) Uses past experiences to remember things without thinking about them. Acq of skills as a res

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Frontal Lobe, Forgetting Curve, Prospective Memory

Occurs during storage phase (between encoding and retrieval) Synapses or connections esp those that aren"t used very often become weaker. Rapid drop-of

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Aplysia, Withdrawal Reflex, Classical Conditioning

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Observational Learning, Mirror Neuron, Parietal Lobe

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Artificial Grammar Learning, Implicit Learning, Dynamical System

People get getter at performing a task (more accurate, quicker decisions) without justifying their decisions. Learning process through which we acquire

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Noam Chomsky, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Noun Phrase

Uses signals that are combined based on rules of grammar. Set of rules that specifies how signals can be combined to produce meaningful msgs. Smallest

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Frontal Lobe, Staccato, Temporal Lobe

Children show higher cog funct such as exec cntrl. What bilinguals have to do in everyday life to switch between languages and suppress one. Bilingual

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: German Shepherd, Basal Ganglia, Prefrontal Cortex

Mental rep that char a group/category of things. Based on shared similarities, things have in common. Must be true of object for it to belong to catego

PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Decision-Making, Optimism Bias, Prospect Theory

Decisions made on basis of investment in the past. Ppl believe that relative to other ppl, they are more likely to experience positive events. Believe