Cognitive Psychology Chapter 1 Flashcards

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How do the mental and physical realms relate, e.g., how can mental causes have physical effects and vice-versa?

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MInd-Body Problem

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Basic categories of mental abilities, e.g., memory, attention, language, imagination, emotion, will

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Mental Faculties

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The idea that the mind and body are separate and different in kind.

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Dualism

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The idea that thinking and other forms of mental activity can be understood as analogous to a kind of computer program

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Computational Theory of mind/information processing paradigm

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The distinction between a program and the physical “machine” that carries it out; used as an argument that the mind may be studied without detailed knowledge of the brain.

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Hardware-software distinction

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An Internal data structure

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Mental representation

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The experience, not arising from an external stimulus, that an amputated or missing limb is still present

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Phantom Limb

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If the sum of incoming signals exceeds this criterion, a neuron will fire; if not, then it does nothing.

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Threshold

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A linkage between two neurons in which increased activity in the first cell causes increased activity in the second

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Excitatory connection

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A linkage between two neurons in which increased activity in the first cell causes decreased activity in the second.

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Inhibitory connection

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A neurophysiological sensing technology that uses powerful magnets to create images of brain structure.

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MRI(magnetic resonance imaging)

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A neurophysiological sensing technology that uses a rotating X-ray to create 2D images of brain structure.

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CAT(computerized axial tomography)

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A neurophysiological sensing technology that uses radioactive tracers in the blood to create images of brain activity

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PET (positron emission tomography)

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A neurophysiological sensing technology that uses powerful magnets to create images of brain activity

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fMRI

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