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Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karl Lashley, Psychoanalytic Theory, Wolfgang Köhler

Nativism: knowledge is innate (inherited, born with it) Empiricism: knowledge gained through observation and our senses (environment) Nothing can exist

Psychology 1000 Lecture 2: Lecture 2

Over time more is learned about processes under study. Formal statements that explain how and why certain events are related. Do further research and b

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 3 - Informed consent, Bar chart, Histogram

Inferential statistics: tests the hypothesis to make conclusions. The groups wont all have the exact same numbers. If there are no real differences bet

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neuropsychological Test, Brain Damage, Sensory Neuron

Branches out from the cns to all parts of the body: afferent pathways, neurons that carry signals from the sensory receptor cells to the brain and spin

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neural Coding, Acetylcholine, Reuptake

Na2+ ions flow in (increase -70 resting potential) Shift in electrical charge travels along the neuron. If hits the threshold ap results, if doesn"t hi

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cingulate Cortex, Limbic System, Basal Ganglia

Using multiple shovels to fill a hole (presynaptic neurons sending to synapse) Using one shovel to fill a hole overtime. Human brain has been evolving

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phineas Gage, Lobotomy, Pattern Recognition

Phineas gage (hit with railroad spike and made impulsive decisions after) Murderous acts (pet scans - less prefrontal activity) Decreased activity for

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Biological Determinism, Evolutionary Psychology, Gene Knockout

Our genetic blueprint is inherited from our parents, effects all aspects of our development and behaviour. Each contains a nucleus (except red blood ce

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Behaviorism, Parental Investment, Eugenics

Evolutionary psychology: a field of study that focuses on the role of evolutionary processes (especially natural selection) in the development of adapt

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sensory Threshold, Psychophysics, Habituation

Perception: selection, organization and interpretation of sensory input. Psychophysics: the study of how physical stimuli are translated into psycholog

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Parietal Lobe, Myelin, Thalamus

Stimuli: mechanical, thermal (hot/cold), chemical enregy applied to the surface of the skin. Cells in the nervous system are triggered by small areas o

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Visual Cortex, Color Blindness, Parallel Computing

Individuals missing one type of opponent system (lack of photo-pigment) In the visual cortex respond maximally to very specific information. Kittens ra

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Subliminal Stimuli, Unconscious Mind, Collective Unconscious

James - stream of consciousness (consciousness is fluid - ever moving and changing) No one can directly experience your reality, you cant see theirs. D

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reticular Formation, Sleep Deprivation, Basal Forebrain

Hypnogenic system is activated (basal forebrain and brain stem) Pons is critical for rem sleep as it contains. sleep-on neurons that activate different

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cirrhosis, Alcoholism, Depressant

Increases activity of gaba (inhibitory - shuts down activity in ns) Do and say things they don"t want to. Slow down vita; life processes (to the point

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Foodborne Illness, Unobservable, Classical Conditioning

The changes in behaviour that accumulate across generations are stored in the genes. Unobservable phenomenon aren"t necessary for an understanding of h

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Relaxation Technique, Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning

Ucs (loud noise) + cs (rat) --> ucr (fear) Cs (rate) without ucs (loud noise) --> ucr (fear) intially. Cs (rat) without ucs (loud noise) --> n

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Wolfgang Köhler

Escape conditioning: learn a response to terminate an aversive stiulus. Take tylenol after dentist becaue of apin (negative reinforcemnt) Avoidance con

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Working Memory

Processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Holds info long enough to have it memorized. Getting information into

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Artificial Neural Network

Word association - red is associated with hot, blood, roses, love. Each concept is represented by a node (or pattern of nodes) that become activated si

Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Response Bias, Explicit Memory, Decay Theory

Remember information accurately but confuse the source of the information. Estimate how fast the cars were going - asked 2 groups. People who heard thi