Introduction Flashcards

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Plato’s philosophy

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Our senses show us only shadows of reality. It is only through our reason that we can know the true forms that structure our world.

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Theory of Forms

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Perfect Ideas, or Forms, exist in a separate realm of pure Forms that can only be discovered by our Reason. Our souls are but fragments of an all- knowing “cosmos-soul” that had all knowledge : we can recover this knowledge with reason.

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Aristotle’s philosophy

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Our soul and our body are interdependent. Our soul is the functional organization of living matter.

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Rationalism

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Knowledge is primarily gained through reason and logical thought, independent of sensory experience.
- Plato
- Descartes

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Descartes believed in the superiority of ______ reasoning over ______ reasoning

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Deductive reasoning over inductive reasoning

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Empiricism

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Knowledge comes primarily from sensory experiences and observations of the world
*John Locke
*David Hume
*Aristotle

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Inductive Reasoning

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  • Drawing general conclusions from specific observations or evidence.
  • Conclusions are probable but not certain.
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Titchener

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Begin with complex, or even abstract ideas and decompose them into their simpler elements through introspection

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Deductive Reasoning

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  • Drawing specific conclusions from general principles or premises.
  • If the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.
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Locke’s theory of ideas

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Information from our senses enters our minds as simple ideas or sensations that can then be assembled to form complex ideas

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Just noticeable difference (JND)

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The smallest weight difference that someone can perceive
-> Another term for JND is the difference threshold

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David Hume

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Beliefs are caused by psychological « habits »

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Weber fractions

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JND between standard and comparison stimuli/ standard stimuli (1/40 for weight, differs for other stimuli)

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Kant

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A priori structures exist in our mind before we receive sensory experience, but they have no use without sensory awareness
- We may never really know the thing-in-itself (Noumenon)
- All we can know is the impression that the noumenon exerts on our senses (Phenomenon)

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Discriminability

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How easy it is to notice a small difference in terms
of physical intensity

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Small Weber fraction means ___lower/higher discriminability

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Higher (inverse correlation; the smaller the Weber fraction, the smaller difference can be detected meaning bigger discriminability)

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Panpsychism

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Everything is both mind and matter, it only depends on your perspective.

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Fechner found that each JND is perceptually ______

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Equivalent : The 1 gram difference between 40 and 41 grams is exactly as perceptually salient (feels the same) as the 10 gram difference between 410 and 400 grams. The JND is then a “perceptual atom”.

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Fechner’s law

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p = k x log(S/S0)

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p in Fechner’s law

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Subjective perception

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S in Fechner’s law

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Physical intensity of the stimulus (objectively measured)

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S0 in Fechner’s law

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Smallest intensity of the stimulus that can be perceived, or absolute threshold

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k in Fechner’s law

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Modality-specific factor controlling the steepness of the function depending on the sensory modality

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Fechner law is a mathematical formula of ___/___ relationship

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Mind/matter

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Large values of physical stimulus intensity (X) are going to have a progressively smaller impact on subjective perception , but the ____ (Y) will always stay the same between 2 stimuli

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High k value in Fechner’s function means high or low discriminability?

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High, k is inversely correlated with the Weber fraction

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Larger slope or larger k means …

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Small physical stimulus intensity change causes big subjective perception change