lecture notes Flashcards

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Rationalism

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knwoledge of the result prior to reasoning and knowledge

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Priori knowledge

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knowledge before experience

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Empiricism

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knowledge comes from experience and observation and formation of associations

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Structuralism

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systematic understanding of the structure of the mind by identifying the basic building blocks to explain how they give rise to complex cognitive processes

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introspection

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observation of one’s own consciousness

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Notable structuralist

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Functionalism

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Mind is a functional adaptive tool conceptualized to help us adapt to our envirionment. we have a system of mental processes to help us solve porblems

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Behaviorism

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psychology can be objectively studied through observation of behavior

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Classical conditioning

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Association of an involuntary response to a stimulus

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Operant conditioning is a

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association of a voluntary behavior with a consequence (reward or punishment)

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Hick’s law

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the more information there is to process, the more time it takes to produce a response

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Cognitive revolution

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1950s movement proposing the mind is a computational system (motivated by rejection of behaviorism)

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Choice overload bias

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High number or uncertainty of choices taxes information processes

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Decision fatigue

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State of mental exhaustion that occurs when someone has to take too many decisions

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Ecological validity

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extent to which experiemtn subjects perceptions and responses can be generalized to real-life settings

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Construct validity

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Internal validity

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Interactionism

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mind and body interact to induce events in each other

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epiphenomenalism

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mental thoughts are caused by physical events

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Behavior measurements

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Behavioral experiments measure voluntary response, psychophysiological measures involuntary response

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behavioral neuroscience

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animal models for human behavior predictions

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cognitive neuroscience

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neuroimaging tools (eeg, fmri)

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Structural mri

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anatomical structure images

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functional mri

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images of metabolic activity

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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used to activate or deactivate parts of the brain. treats depression

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mcgurk effect

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visual input is dominant over auditory input if you are trying to determine what exactly you heard

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optic chiasm

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where visual info crosses from one hemisphere to another