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Empiricism |
The belief that knowledge is formed by a persons individual experiences |
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Nativism |
The belief that some skills or abilities are hard wired since birth |
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Structuralism |
Wilhelm Wundt; seeks to analyze the sum of experiences from birth to present |
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Functionalism |
William James; emphasized that humans are active processors of information |
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Gestalt Psychology |
Emphasized on perceptual organization principles; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts |
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Behaviorism |
Focused on observable behavior and its relationship to stimulus; ignored unobservable processes (attention,thought,ideas) |
Watson, skinner, and others |
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Black box |
Mental processes that aren't studied in behaviorism |
Is mental event in cognitive psych |
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PET |
Positron emission tomography; Brain imaging method in which radioactive sugar is injected into a person and a computer shows a color-coded image of activity in the brain |
Pet sugar |
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fMRI |
Functional Magnetic resonance imaging-Brain imaging method that measures changes in brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow to certain parts of the brain |
Brain blood |
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CT |
Computed tomography-Brain imaging method using computer-controlled x-rays of the brain |
X-Ray |
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Frontal lobe |
On the top and front of brain- responsible for mental processes decision-making and language |
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Temporal lobe |
Front bottom of brain-contains neuron responsible for processing auditory information |
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Occipital lobe |
Bottom rear of brain-processes visual information |
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Parietal lobe |
Top rear of brain- neurons that process touch taste and temperature sensations |
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