Brains

Question 1

Automaticity

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Answer 1

Where the processing of incoming stimuli and response seem to occur in the absence of conscious awareness. A model of information processing.

Question 2

Schema

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Answer 2

Cognitive structure that stores information relating to specific subjects, people, events or issues.

Question 3

Evaluative conditioning

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Answer 3

Changing the feeling towards a stimulus by repeatedly pairing it with another that typically prompts a stronger or opposite response.

Question 4

Dorsal Stream

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Answer 4

Processing stream.

Ascends from the occipital cortex to the parietal cortex.

Involved in spatial awareness and action.

Question 5

Multi Sensory Perception

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Perception through more than one sensory input. It’s thought this happens to reduce potential error though some senses take precedence over others.

McGurk (1976) seeing one thing leave a persons lips and hearing another. Fusion between what was said.

Question 6

Filter Model of Attention

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Answer 6

Theoretical model.

Active selection of only limited amounts of information to attend to. This can happen at an early or late stage in information processing sequence.

Question 7

Inattentional Blindness

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Answer 7

Inability to notice events in a visual scene due to attention being applied elsewhere or due to high cognitive demand where resources were being applied elsewhere.

Question 8

Change Blindness

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Answer 8

Inability to notice changes in a visual scene.

Question 9

Biopsychosocial model

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A model that recognised the contributions of biology, psychology and social factors to mental states and behaviour. Considers how these factors interact.
Useful to consider for the treatment of clinical depression

Question 10

Neurotransmitters

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Answer 10

When action potential arrives at the terminal of a neuron the chemical is released. This moves across the synaptic gap between the neurons to occupy the receptors on the next neuron.
Noradrenaline, dopamine, serotonin and glutamine.
Useful for investigation of schizophrenia. Treatment of depression through Prozac. Develop understanding of how drugs such as cocaine or heroin affect the brain.