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commitments to science

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quantification, objectivity

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quantification

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everything is reducible to math (galileo)

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objectivity

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science is the objective study of reality, free of belief and judgement

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pre-commitments to science

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materialism, reductionism
(dualism, pluralism)

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materialism

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the idea that everything that exists is physical

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reductionism

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it is best to explain complex things by their underlying principles

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dualism

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some things are material and some are not (no monism)

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pluralist

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not just 2 options; many things occupy reality

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What is psychology

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the effect of your mind on your behavior

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nominal

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using #’s to categorize things

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ordinal

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scaling, doesn’t tell you how different one is from the other (1st place, 2nd place)

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interval

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gives you order + how far apart they are (temperature)

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ratio

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nominal data, has an order, and also has a true 0

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memory (received view)

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the process of encoding, storing and retrieval

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clinical dissociation

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the idea that memory is multiple and its functions are independent. aspects of memory are physiologically different

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H.M.

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temporal and hippocampus parts cut out
retrograde amnesia - couldn’t remember 3 years prior to surgery
anterograde amnesia - couldn’t form new episodic memories

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Occam’s razor (principle of parsimony)

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the theory explained with the least assumptions is preferred (memory violates this principle by having multiple parts)

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LTM

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capacity: a whole lot
lifelong/ long time

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STM

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capacity: 7+/- 2 chunks
< minute

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Tulving

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created idea of episodic and semantic memory

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episodic memory

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record of time, space, self
-lost easier than semantic
-requires sense of self
-may require frontal lobe

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semantic memory

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absent of when/where memory was acquired (factual information)

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autonoetic vs noetic.

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autonoetic = ability to mentally time travel

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Klein’s view of memory

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it is terminologically vapid; everything that is memorized is encoded, stored retrieved (beliefs, imaginations, etc)

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memory is... (Klein's view)
from the past, about the past (it actually happened), about my past (it happened to you)
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Patient R.B.
did not take ownership of his memories
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William James
"the self is central to psychology"
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self as known (epistemological)
material self (physical attributes) spiritual self (psychological attributes) social self (different selves for different social situations)
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self as knower (ontological)
subjective, subconscious, has no neural basis
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symbolic interactionism
our sense of self is a consequence of the people we interact with
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Cooley
looking glass self (how other people see us is important to us)
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Gallup Test
chimps raised in isolation or not will they recognize themselves in the mirror? place red dot on top of their head isolation: ignores red dot group: touches themselves
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identity
although the "self" is changing all the time, we have a sense of continuum (we are the same person over time)
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synchronic
how we feel right now (easy to do)
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diachronic
sense of self over time (not as east to do)
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Povenelli
post-it note test on children (video record) 2-3 year olds did not reach for post-it after watching video back (do not think the person in the video aka past self is the same as they are right now) 4 years: 75% would reach (diachronic self)
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Klein's view of self
self is conscious of things personal to you William James' view is good (self as known, self as knower) but is missing one aspect: personal ownership
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Free will
behavior is not predetermined, you have a choice
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Determinism
monistic (one) materialism everything has a physical entity everything is predetermined in the universe
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Libet
studied people undergoing brain surgery noted brain started to act ~ 1/2 a second before the patient was conscious they were about to do something
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Problem with Libet
there was nothing spontaneous about the patients movement we don't know if the readiness potential was specific for a given behavior we cannot ever determine functions of the universe by an experiment
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Loplace's Demon Argument
if you know position and movement of all the particles in the universe and you know all the laws that govern their behavior and you could compute it you can predict and retrodict everything possible
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epiphenomenon
something that is associated with another but has no causal effect on it
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remembering
not everything that is remembered is a memory retrieving something for behavior, verbalization
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should psychology be a science?
no, science is about the natural and physical word. psychology does not need to be reduced
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constructs of psychological science
misuse of numbers theoretical poverty constructs are poorly defined (we use the same methods as other sciences)
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Likert scales
used to map a persons experience problem: how do we know the distance from 1-2 is the same as 2-3?
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Numbers
"iffy propositions"
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Is the self an illusion (does it require consciousness?)
consciousness is an illusion illusions are an experience, experience requires experiencer, experiencer has consciousness
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Mead
we wouldn't have a sense of self if we didn't interact with anyone

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