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Psych 10 (Batch 2) Flashcards

Lectures 4, 5, 6

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What are some differences between correlational and experimental designs?

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Correlational:
- Measures the strength of the relationship between two things (-1 to 1)
- Observed
- Cannot infer causation

Experimental:
- Experimentally manipulating an IV to see its impact on a DV
- Is controlled
- Can infer causation

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What are some characteristics of quasi-experimental designs?

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-Similar to experimental research but there is no random assignment to conditions
-Relies on existing group membership (gender, married vs. single, age groups)
-Can’t infer causality

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What’s converging operations?

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A research strategy where a variety of research techniques are used to investigate or converge upon a particular experimental or research result.

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What are the 3 major regions in the brain?

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Forebrain, midbrain, hindbraid

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What’s the function of the cerebellum?

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Motor coordination/control

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What’s the function of the medulla?

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Coordinates heart rate, circulation, respiration

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What’s the function of the reticular formation?

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Regulates sleep, wakefulness, & arousal

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What’s the pons?

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Relays information from cerebellum to the rest of the brain

'’visualize a bridge over a pond → bridge to cerebellum’’

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What’s the function of the tegmentum & tectum?

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Orienting in response to stimuli

tectum = audio/visual
tegmentum = movement/arousal

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What’s the function of the thalamus?

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Filters and transmit info from senses to cortex (train stage for sensory info)

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What’s the function of the hypothalamus?

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Regulates the 4 F’s…

  • Fighting
  • Feeding
  • Fleeting
  • Mating (fucking)
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What’s the function of the amygdala?

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Role in emotional processes

“Amy is so emotional”

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What’s the function of the hippocampus?

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Critical for creating and integrating new memories

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Who is Patient H.M.?

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  • He got hippocampus removed to try and reduce seizures
  • Could not form any new memories
  • He could remember things from his past for the most part but couldn’t make new memories
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Do different people have different learning styles?

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No, this is a myth. People only have different learning preferences.

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What’s the function of the basal ganglia?

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Intentional movement (tip to remember: “turn up the bass” & people start dancing)

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What is the function of the occipital lobe?

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  • Primary visual cortex
  • Involved in initial processing of visual information
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What is the function of the temporal lobe?

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  • Processing of auditory information
  • Auditory cortex
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What is the function of the parietal lobe?

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Registers the sense of touch

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What is the function of the somatosensory cortex?

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Cortical representations of information are
weighted by “importance” (ex: paper clip test)

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What is the function of the motor cortex?

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Involved in initiation of movement

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What happens in Broca’s aphasia?

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  • Difficulty in producing speech
  • often have an extremely limited number of words that they can say
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What is the function of the wernicke’s area?

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Speech comprehension

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What is aphasia?

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The loss of ability to use or understand speech/language

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What does split brain mean?
The corpus callosum is cut in surgery
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Who is Santiago Ramón y Cajal?
Father of modern neuroscience
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What is a neuron?
a cell that specializes in receiving and transmitting information
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What is the function of the cell body? (in a neuron)
coordinates information-processing tasks and keeps cell alive
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What is the function of the dendrites?
Receive information from other neurons and relays it to the cell body
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What is the axon?
long slender projection that conducts electrical impulses away from the cell body
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What is the synapse?
the region between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite (or cell body) of another
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What is the myelin sheath?
Fatty sheath that insulates axons resulting in increased speed of and efficiency of neural communication
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What are the 2 parts of the process for when neurons “send” and “receive” messages?
- Action potential (within one neuron - Transmission across the synapse (from 1 neuron to the next)
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What did they study in Hodgin & Huxley (1952)?
Studied neural impulses using squid axons (Did it on squid bc their axons are way bigger than humans)
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What is action potential?
An electrical signal that is conducted along the length of a neuron’s axon to a synapse (all-or-none phenomena)
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When a neuron is at rest... - outside is ___ charged - inside is ____ charged - Resting potential = ____mV
- outside is + charged - inside is - charged - Resting potential = -70 mV
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What is depolarization?
- When stimulated, sodium channels open and ions rush in - Makes cell more positive (bc sodium has rushed in)
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What is repolarization?
- After the sodium gates close, potassium [K+] moves out - Makes cell more negative than it was
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What happens when the action potential reaches the synaptic terminal?
It causes the release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft
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Neurotransmitters can be _______ or _______
Excitatory or inhibitory
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What does it mean if a neurotransmitter is excitatory?
increases the likelihood of an action potential (by causing the membrane potential to be less negative)
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What does it mean if a neurotransmitter is inhibitory?
decreases the likelihood of an action potential (by causing the membrane potential to be more negative)
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How is the strength of sensations determined?
- Rate of firing - Number of neurons stimulated
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What are some examples of neurotransmitters?
- Acetylcholine - Dopamine - Serotonin
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What is acetylcholine (Ach)?
Important transmitter between motor neurons and voluntary muscles
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What is dopamine?
Neurotransmitter that regulates motor behavior, motivation, pleasure and emotional arousal (degeneration of these neurons in a particular part of brain linked to Parkinson’s)
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What is serotonin?
Neurotransmitter that plays a primary role in regulating, sleep, wakefulness, and eating behavior
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Compare agonist and antagonist neurotransmitters.
- Agonist: chemical that enhances or mimics the action of a neurotransmitter - Antagonist: chemical that blocks the action of a neurotransmitter (ex: botox or botulinum toxin)
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What does MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging) mean?
uses a powerful magnetic field to produce high-quality images of the brain and its structure
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What does fMRI (Functional magnetic resonance imaging) mean?
- Used to examine changes in ongoing brain activity by measuring changes in the blood’s oxygen levels - Great for determining location (i.e., good spatial resolution); not so great at determining timing (i.e., bad temporal)
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What does electroencephalography (EEG) mean?
- EEG can record electrical activity from large populations of simultaneously active neurons at the scalp with millisecond resolution. - EEG is a direct measure of neural activity. - EEG has good temporal resolution but poor spatial resolution
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Define sensation.
physical processing of environmental stimuli by the sense organs
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Define perception.
the psychological process of interpreting sensory information
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Define psychophysics.
methods that measure the strength of a stimulus and the observer’s sensitivity to that stimulus
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Define absolute threshold.
Smallest amount of stimulation needed for detection by a sense (50% of the time)
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What is just noticeable difference (difference threshold?
The minimum difference between 2 stimuli needed to detect a difference between them 50% of the time (ex: easier to tell difference between 10 and 11 lb dumbbells than 100 and 101 lb)
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Compare top-down processing and bottom-up processing.
Top-down processing: - When our perceptions are influenced by our expectations or by our prior knowledge - ex: green needle vs brainstorm Bottom-up processing: - Occurs when we perceive individual bits of sensory info (e.g. sounds) and use them to construct a more complex message - ex: "a" or "e" --> "sweats or sweets" --> sweats
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What is the signal-detection theory?
Response to a stimulus depends on person’s sensitivity and on a person’s decision criteria... - Person’s experience - Expectations - Motivation - Level of fatigue - Consequences of missing ex: radiologist
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What is sensory adaptation?
Diminished sensitivity as a result of constant or recurring stimuli Ex: you can’t smell your own perfume after a few hours but other ppl still smell it
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What is selective attention?
Focusing on one particular task or event (ex: half of ppl miss gorilla suit in video bc they are focused on ball)
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What is inattentional blindness?
A failure to perceive objects that are not the focus of attention
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What is change blindness?
The failure to detect changes to the visual details of a scene ex: in a movie where a shirt is buttoned then unbuttoned and you don’t notice or people switching behind the painting
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When light passes through the cornea and lens, it is bent so that the light waves cross and project an upside down and backwards image on the retina... Top becomes _____, and left becomes ________.
bottom, right

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