chapter Flashcards
1
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experience-dependent plasticity
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Shaping of neural responding by experience
2
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Why are there more neurons that respond to horizontal and vertical?
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theory of natural selection:states that characteristics that enhance an animal’s ability to survive will be passed onto future generations
3
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Helmholtz’s Theory of Unconscious Inference
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our perceptions are the result of unconscious assumptions that we make about the environment
4
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Wundt’s approach was structuralism
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our overall experiences is determined by combining basic elements of experience the structuralists called sensations
5
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chomsky
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lanugage is devloped by consturction of brain and not by reinforcement
