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beneficence
commitment to maximising benefits and reducing harm and risks
integrity
commitment to searching for knowledge and understanding and reporting all sources of info and results honestly
non-malficience
do no harm
justice
moral obligation to ensure fair consideration of competing claims
respect
consideration of the extent to which living things have an intrinsic/instumental value, consideration of the capacity of living things to make their own decisions
hippocampus
encodes explicit memories
amygdala
encodes emotional components of explicit memories
neocortex
stores explicit memories
basal ganglia
encoding and storing implicit memories, specifically those related to habit formation, procedural sequences of movements, and reward pathways
cerebellum
encodes and stores implicit procedural memories
mindfullness meditation
Mindfulness meditation refers to a type of meditation where an individual focuses their attention on their breathing in the present moment, fully allowing themselves to experience their thoughts, sensations and feelings in the present moment without judgement
- to promote feelings of calm and peace.
behaviourist approaches to learning
theories that propose learning occurs by interacting with the external environment and focuses on behaviours that can be directly observed and recorded.
social cognitive approaches to learning
involve theories that propose learning takes place in a social setting and involves various cognitive processes.
amyloid plaques
fragments of protein beta-amyloid that accumulate into insoluble plaques that inhibit communication between neurons.
neurofibrillary tangles
accumulation of protein tau that forms insoluble tangles within neurons, inhibiting the transportation of essential substances which in turn eventually kills the neuron entirely.