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30 Cards in this Set
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plato
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Believed in Rationalism.
All answers to the worlds questions can be found within yourself. Learning is discovering what you already know through logical analysis |
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aristotle
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Believed in empiricism.
a person obtains knowledge about the world through rational analysis and observation. |
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descartes
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believed in continental rationalism. He believed rationalism. He said people can be fooled by their own senses so they must rely on logic.
The main idea in Europe at his time is rationalism |
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John Lock
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believed in british empiricism. Says people start as a blank slate, that we learn by forming associations
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Kant
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created "pure concepts of understanding" that allow us to organize our experience into knowledge
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wundt
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structuralism
believed in introspection that can be used to discover basic structure of the mind problems because it cannot be replicated |
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James
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pragmaticism which is the use of psychology to help people
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Ebbinhaus
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associationism, linking two things together to improve memory
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Popper
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Falsifiability, says all scientific theories must be testable
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Pavlov
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Classical conditioning
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thorndike
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instrumental conditioning, awards increase desired behavior
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Watson
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Radical behaviorism, people don't think or have consciousness, words start to be produced at vocal cords
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On center off surround
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when surrounding neurons fire they inhibit the final neuron making it harder to fire, when centered neurons fire they activate the final neuron so localization and edges are clear
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gyri
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bulges of brain
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sulci
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folds in brain
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fissure
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deep sulci
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somatosensory cortex
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touch and physical stimulation
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motor cortex
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controls movement
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thalmus
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relay station
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hypothalmus
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regulation of body
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brainstem
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vital functions, communication with body
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cerebellum
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motor control, reasoning
very dense differentiates humans from other animals important for cognition |
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limbic system
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memory and emotional processing
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basal ganglia
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motor control and cognition
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homunculus
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demonstrates the body in terms of how much brain is devoted to that area
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optic chiasma
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separates information into the correct sides of the brain
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single unit recording
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An electrode is placed onto a neuron to measure the AP.
Advantage: know time and location Disadvatage: cannot tell big picture, very invasive |
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EEG/ERP
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records systematic fluctuations of voltage across a skull over time.
advantage: great temporal resolution disadvantage: poor spatial resolution |
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PET/fMRI
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traces where the blood flows in your brain
advantage: good spatial resolution Disadvantage: poor temporal resolution |
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Form perception can be broken into 3 parts. What are they?
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parsing, surface interpretation, and recognition
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