PSYC 308 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hypersomnia, Claustrophobia, Prefrontal Cortex
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Explains cultural learning, cultural information complexity, and brain size individual learning: trying to figure out everything from scratch. However, going through every step, you only have your own knowledge to rely you only need yourself on. Social learning: there is someone to look up to who will distribute their knowledge to others. Others can copy the solution that works essentially outsourcing problem solving further developing to arrive at a better solution, more efficient, etc. B(1an take) up (cid:419)% of any 1nd1v1dual(cid:471)) body we1g0t. Take) up (cid:419)(cid:417)% of you( body(cid:471)) ene(gy. Theory of mind - t0e ab1l1ty to unde()tand )omeone el)e(cid:471)) t0oug0t), bel1ef), and intentions. Through unde()tand1ng ot0e( people(cid:471)) 1ntent1on), we 0ave t0e ab1l1ty to fu(t0e( develop onto the idea and generate new ideas and concepts. Learning biases - biases that direct learner;s attention to certain models of information ex. prestige bias.
