PSY100H1 Final: Final Exam Review (does not include all chapters, only those specified for exam Fall 2014)
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Chapter 3 biological psychology. Module 3. 3 structure and organization of nervous system. The brain and its structures. The cerebral cortex: cerebral cortex: thought, language, personality, wrinkled, increases sa = more neurons, white matter w/ myelin, grey matter w/out. Visual stimulus to right brain does not verbalize match (right brain not specialized for language), but can point. Chapter 6 learning classical conditioning (or pavlovian. Module 6. 1 classical conditioning: learning by association. Learning without awareness: ex// little albert and the rat. Less likely that these stimuli will lead to stimulus generalization. Evolutionary role for fear conditioning: preparedness: the biological predisposition to rapidly learn a response to a particular class of stimuli. Therefore it is most likely to occur in new foods. Module 6. 2 operant conditioning: learning through consequences. A consequence of the behaviour. Behaviour mostly depends on reflexive and physiological. Skeletal muscles responses: operant conditioning: a type of learning in which behaviour is influenced by consequences.
