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Ablation

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Cutting out piece of brain to see what happens

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Action propre & action commune

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Pierre Florens
Localization of function
Each general area of the brain has an action propre
Eg. Cerebellum is cordination
Eg. Cerebral cortex will and motivation
Action commune: The whole system really works as a community, destroy one and hurt it all

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3
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Allegory of the cave

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Plato

You only know what you have seen

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Apperception

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When your perceiving intentionally (Focus)

Wundt

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Basic (Pure) v Applied Research

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Basic= studying for the sake of knowledge
Applied= studying for a purpose
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6
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Bell-Magendie Law

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Spinal Cord: Pupose for ventral vs Dorsal
Bell: ventral = voluntary Dorsal = involuntary
Mag: ventral=motor dorsal=sensory
Mag was way better but whatevs….

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7
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Binocular convergence

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George Berkeley

More eyes point together the closer and object is

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British Empiricism/Associationism

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Empiricism= experience, blank slate, figured out early ideas of thoughts
Associationism= built off empiricism dealt with how thoughts were related to each other
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9
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Broca’s & Wernicke’s Aphasia

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Brocas= speech problems
Wernicke= comprehension problems
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Cogito ergo sum, esse est percipi

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“I think therefore I am”
Rene Descarte
“To be is to be percieved”
George Berkely

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Determinism v Free Will

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Determinism= something determines our actions

Free Will= we chose our actions

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Dualism v Monism

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Dualism= separate mind and body
Monism= mind and body are one in the same
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Epistemology

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The study of knowledge and how it is aquired

-used by empirisists

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14
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Equipotentiality

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Karl Lashley

one part of cortex can take over function of another part

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15
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Fechner’s Law

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S=KlogR
S=Mental sensation
K=Weber's ratio
R= Physical Intenstity
Dealt with percievable differences
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Geocentrism v Heliocentrism

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Geo- earth centered
Aristotle
Helio- sun centered
galileo
Rene Descartes
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Immaterialism

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Spin on anti-materialism that there is no proof that matter even exists

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Innate v Derived ideas

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Rene Descartes
Innate: Born with
Eg. god perfection infinity and self
Derived: Things you learn

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19
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Jnd

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Just noticeable differences

relates to Weber’s difference thresshold

20
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Law of mass action

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Karl Lashley

learning, and memory depend on amount of cortex available

21
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Localization of function

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22
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Materialism v Antimaterialism

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Materialism= things are made out of a finite set of ingredients and are understandable
-Reductionists= things are made out of finite set of ingredients
-Elementist= things are made out of elements
-Atomist= things are made out of atoms
Antimaterialism= vitalism, free will
23
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Mental chronometry

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reaction time
Helmholtz discovered nerve impulse to be slow
Know as mental chronometry in Wundt’s lab

24
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Nature v Nurture

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genes v. environment

25
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Neuron theory

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Cajal

Discrete cells

26
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Nonsense syllable

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CVC

Ebinghaus

27
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Personal equation

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Bessel
Equation for latitude with Jupiters moons
Enabled personalization for formula
And way more accurate

28
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Phrenology

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personality by shape of skull

poorly researched and innacurate

29
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Pineal gland

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Rene Descartes
Dualism
believed brain and mind connect at pineal gland

30
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Pneumatic philosophy

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a name for metaphysics or psychology

31
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Primary v Secondary qualities

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Primary= What it is: Form, motion and size
Secondary= what we perceive: smell, temperature, color
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Psychophysical parallelism

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mind and body event occur together with no cause effect relationship

33
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Psychophysics

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Helmholtz

Psychology that deals with external stimuli and mental phenomena

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Rationalism v Empiricism

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Reason v. Experience

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Reticular doctrine

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Golgi
Reticular theory
everything in nervous system is single network

36
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Specific Nerve Energies

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Sensory neurons pick up specific things like taste touch etc…
Muller
Difference is from pathways

37
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Tabula rasa

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“Clean Slate”
You are born with no knowledge
No innate ideas

38
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Thresholds (3)

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Weber
2pt = two pokes, 4 cm on back, 1mm on tip of finger
Absolute threshold= minimum detectable
Difference = minimal detectable difference

39
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Trust v Reason v Experience

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Trust= God/gut

40
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Vitalism v Mechanism

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Vitalism= life has some mystical element
Galvani
Mechanism= everything can be explained like a machine
Harvey
Helmholtz
The Mills
41
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Völkerpsychologie

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Wundt
Mix of developmental psych and anthropology
Theory higher difficulty of native language = greater upper level intelligence
Didnt think upper level thought could be quantified

42
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Voluntary v Involuntary movement

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Robert Whytt

Spinal cord reflexes v decisions to move

43
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Weber’s Ratio

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Difference threshold is a proportion not a fixed value

JND/S=K

44
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1860

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Fechner started psycho-physics

45
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1879

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Wundt started teaching psychology at Leipzig

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