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1
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who said that the brain was not involved in producing behavior?

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Aristotle

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what did Aristotle say the brain was involved in?

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cool the blood

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what is the psyche?

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mind, consciousness
- immaterial entity that is the source of human behavior

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what is mentalism?

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explains behavior as the product of an immaterial mind

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what is the mind-body problem?

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dualism vs monism
brain > body -> not all reflexes go to the brain before action is taken

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who created dualism?

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Descartes

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what is dualism?

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mind and body are separate
- contributes to behavior in humans
- animals lack a mind
- body is tangible while mind is not
- humans have a mind so they can move with intention

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what connects the mind to the body?

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pineal gland found in the center midline

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what is the purpose of the pineal gland?

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controls the flow of fluid through ventricles to fill the muscles of the body and create movement -> hydraulic pressure (doesn’t explain how actions occur
- it is important as it is not a duplicated structure

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what is the true purpose of the pineal gland?

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regulates the sleep wake cycle
- muscles and nerves are not holllow tubes as initially said

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what is Cartesian Dualism?

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voluntary (mind) and involuntary (reflexes) behavior

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what’s the involuntary pathway for Cartesian Dualism?

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external stimuli -> sense organs -> brain -> pineal gland -> mind -> interpretation (humans only for actions/involuntary behaviors)

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what is the voluntary pathways?

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mind to pineal gland to brain to muscles

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what are the critical evaluations of Descartes and which one is T?

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  • Humans and non-human animals show automatic response to environmental stimuli (T)
  • The process of behaving involves one set of nerves (one pathway)
  • Nerves are hollow tubes filled with fluid (animal spirits) that create movement
  • Reflexes are innate and fixed
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what is the actual pathway for an action to occur?

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stimulus - receptor - sensory neuron - interneuron (spinal cord in CNS) - motor neuron - effector - response

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what is the pathway that occurs for quick reflexives?

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sensory neuron - interneuron (reflex arc) - motor neuron

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17
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what is nativism?

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philosophy that we are born with innate ideas
- automatic things that happen bc we are human
- act a certain way bc we are born that way

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18
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what is empiricism?

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all ideas in the mind come from experience
- rxn to nativism
- key to this class bc we learn from the consequences of our actions

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19
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why does dualism create issues to study behavior?

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need to see the patterns that cause behavior and create connection between mental processes and the brain so we need monism

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what is monism?

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mind and body consist of same substance
- actions and thought in brain create mind

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what is materialistic monism?

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mind and body are physical

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Locke

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  • all ideas acquired through experience
  • tabula rasa - clean slate
  • opp to nativism
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23
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Hobbes

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voluntary behavior is predictable and lawful (similar to reflex)
- agreed with Descartes
- set of rules so it is like a reflex
-> Hedonism

24
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what is hedonism?

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pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain
- get us what we want and avoid unpleasant things by acting a certain way

25
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association

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linking concepts and thoughts
- simple association combine into complex ideas
- sound + word = dog
- word + sound + concept -> simple made complex

26
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what are the primary laws of association?

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  • contiguity
  • similarity
  • contrast
    -> similar to Gestalt principles
27
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what is contiguity?

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when things occur close to each other in time and space
-> maple leaves on the ground and bare trees are around it so safe to assume the trees are maple trees

28
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temporal contiguity

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close in time
- loud bang + red light = jump scare so now every time you see a red light you jump

29
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similarity

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two things share some feature
- husky + other fluffy dog - similar features so grouped together as Dog
- less similar may get added into group bc its context based

30
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contrast

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things that are opposite in some feature
- no modern evidence
- loud vs quiet -> categorized as separate usually

31
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who created the secondary laws of association?

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Brown

32
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what are the secondary laws of association?

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  • intensity
  • frequency
  • recency
  • existing associations
33
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what is the problem about the rules of association?

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philosophers did not perform experiments to validate rules

34
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what did Ebbinghaus do?

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used nonsense syllables to test rules of association -> limits the confounding variable of prior associations
- SEH

35
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how did Ebbinghaus test rules of association?

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memorize list then test for ability to recall under different conditions
-> diff lvls of training
-> closeness in list
forgetting curve(how fast info decays), learning curve(how quickly they learn info), spacing effect- different permutations

  • no conclusions bc biases and limited sample
36
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what theory of Descartes was right?

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basic theory of reflex arc - stimulus in enviro triggers a response
- mechanisms are not right

37
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what did Sechenov and Pavlov do?

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better understanding of physiological processes responsible for reflex behavior
-> uses 3 neurons that create automatic and innate response

38
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what is behavior reflex?

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without conscious intervention- classical conditioning (US-UR) reflexively

39
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what did Sechenov do?

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  • input does not equal output
    ->response strength is independent of stimulus strength
  • explained voluntary thoughts and behavior as elicited by inconspicuous or faint stimuli
    -> extended use of reflex mechanisms to explain variety of behaviors
  • failed to address how experience can alter behavior
40
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what did Pavlov do?

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  • S-R unit
  • new reflexes learned through association -> classically conditioned
  • Field of Functional Neurology -> Nervism: all behavioral and physiological processes regulated by nervous sys
  • studied digestion and reflexes in dogs
41
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how does classical conditioning work in auditory illusions?

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  • tone played with visual stimulus
  • flash light on screen with tone then light flashed and hear a tone even if not played
42
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how does a behaviorist define behavior?

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overt actions - measurable and observable

43
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how does a cognitive psychologist define behavior?

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overt and covert actions
- thoughts and feelings

44
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what POV do we lean on to see what behavior is?

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behaviorist behavior - quantifies

45
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what is learning?

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  • acquire new info that causes a behavior to change
  • make a response
  • not making a response (withholding)
  • Wisconsin card sorting task - action + no response to an action
46
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Domjan saying

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enduring change in mechanisms of behavior involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses -> generalization

47
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Chance saying

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change in behavior due to changes in enviro -> experiences

48
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what isn’t learning?

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  • changes in bodily state -> hunger
  • changes in enviro -> habituation vs sensitization
  • fatigue -> slower, less strong, delayed - less interest in food which was problematic with pigeons
  • maturation -> taller and stronger
    -> performance vs learning - changes in behavior (performance)
49
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what is the adaptive significance of learning?

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  • enviro changes can outpace evolution
  • organisms that learn can outlive those that do not
  • learning is pressured on us to create changes and outcompete others
  • increases reproductive fitness -> indirect: live longer> more offspring
    direct: more eggs fertilized > more offspring
50
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how to study learning?

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  • experimentation -> allows for control of stimuli
    compare behavior between group (limit: sacrifice of realism)
  • before vs after
  • control vs experimental
51
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how to measure learning?

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  • observe
  • compare changes or differences between group
  • changes in response rate
  • causality- manipulate things otherwise we cannot say there is causality- only correlation
52
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comparative approach

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compare between different groups or species
- pigeons vs humans -> gambling behavior

53
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general processes approach

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  • search for commonalities -> formulate general rules that exist across all animals
    -> common ancestor (human vs primates)
    -> convergent evolution (birds vs humans)
  • “universal” element laws of association exist for learning processes but - animals may learn about diverse stimuli, learn to perform diverse responses(theory of mind, mirror task, rouge test), learn at diff speeds
54
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what are the functions of non-human animal models?

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  • as a model of human behavior -> medical rxn, drug reliance (pig organs parallel humans)
  • model of general bio processes -> associative learning
  • model of conversation -> releasing captive bred endangered species (help endangered species)
55
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why do we use animals?

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  • controlled lab setting
  • no language
  • not trying to please experimenter
56
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what are the regulations for research?

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institutional
federal
individual journal

57
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what are the 3 R’s?

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  • replace -> use computers instead of animals
  • reduce -> use fewer animals
  • refine-> change experiment to cause less harm

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