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Introduction to Psychology
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Rebecca Jubis

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Gerald Goldberg, Jenkin Ngo, Yin Mok

Myriam Mongrain, Hannah Gennis, Jaeger Lam, Christina Van Den Brink, Sara Pishdadian

C Douglas McCann, Hilda Ho, Jala Rizeq, Ronda Lo, Iris Yusupov, Rotem Petranker

Gerald Goldberg, Miranda Di Lorenzo, Nikoo Norouzian, JongJin Kim, Eden Champagne

Myriam Mongrain, Jordana Waxman, Shaylea Badovinac, Bianca Bondi

Kathleen Fortune

C Douglas McCann, Kathleen Fortune

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PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Psychological Association, Donald O. Hebb, Brenda Milner

Themes related to psychology as a field: psychology is empirical, psychology is theoretically diverse, psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Dependent And Independent Variables, Confounding

Two people were put into a divided room and they had to look at human tissue and determine if it was healthy or diseased. Participant a gets real feedb

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 2 - Dependent and independent variables, Standard deviation, Confounding

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wilhelm Wundt, Confounding, Ion

Theory - a scientific theory must be testable. Expert"s" are those who know the limits of truth statements . E. g increasing salary will motivate peopl

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin, Autonomic Nervous System, Hindbrain

Each vibration by itself might provide little information but all the vibrations together form meaningful patterns of information. Nervous tissue is ma

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nervous Tissue, Myocyte, Hypothalamus

Types of cells within the nervous system: handles information, nervous tissue consists of two types of cells, gila. Neurons: most neurons communicate a

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Myelin, Nicotine, Electroencephalography

Eg: prof talking to class: makes vibrations, each vibration by itself may provide little information but all the vibrations together form meaningful pa

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gustav Fechner, Detection Theory, Subliminal Stimuli

The selection, arrangement, and interpretation of sensory input. The study of the relationship between stimulus and sensation. He made a statistic call

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mind-Wandering, Epiphenomenalism, Thunderstorm

Is consciousness passive (the receiver of sensation) or an active process like sensation or perception. Something we have control over and involves bio

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lucid Dream, William C. Dement, Waking Life

What is a dream? you don"t dream about what people are doing in another part of the world. There is a dream component in every perception. Van de castl

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Immunosuppression, Observational Learning

Learning: a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Review of systematic observation and study and a common lang

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spreading Activation, Artificial Neural Network, Anterograde Amnesia

All parts of memory seem to involve active processes: encoding, storage, retrieval. Taking in of information in a way you can remember. Role of attenti

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vocal Folds, Language Processing In The Brain, Fast Mapping

Symbols: represent or refer to objects, actions, events and ideas objects, actions, events and ideas are the referent. Semantic: meaningful (and arbitr

PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: General Semantics, Unearth, Functional Fixedness

System of linguistic philosophy developed by alfred korzybski (1879 1950), which explores the arbitrary nature of words and symbols and attempts to ref