Learning And Cogniton Test #1

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Change

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Change is not the exception to the rule, but the rule itself. When learning we are changing

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Fact

Back 2

is a fact something that everyone knows to be true?

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Older Sciences

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facts have become firmly established (physics and chemistry)

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Newer Science

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More conflicting claims, dividing lines between old facts and new controversial (psychology)

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Assumptions

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Slowly developed within a culture and scientific tradition, not universally excepted

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Natural Selection

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Darwin, Species adapt to changes in their world, selected by the environment, selection allow for sucess in competition to survive

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Evolution

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Adaptive changes in species overtime, product of natural selection

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Gregor Mendel 1900

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attributed natural selection to genetics

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Barrett, Dunbar & Lycett summary of darwins

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1.All individual species vary both behaviorly and physiologically
2. some of the variation is genetic
3. Amoung individuals of any given species, there is typically competition

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Inclusive Fitness

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emphasizes that the life of a single indv. or group is important, wants group to survive and reproduce

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Fitness

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not to the likellihood that a specific individual will survive but that the genetic material will survive

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Alturism

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one that presents some sacrafice to the doer but results in a genetic advantage to the species, helping another at some rist to oneself

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Eusociality

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highly organized social structure including a distinct caste of sterile female workers

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Haplodiploidy

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female mates with a male and holds sperm and finds colony.

w/o fert=male
w/ fert=female

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Kin selection

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selfish altruism, the risk of your own genes is outweighed by the benefit of your genes carried by relatives

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Mutation

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abrupt changes in genes, can be caused by exposures to radiation and certain chemicals, perhaps by viral infection

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Epistemology

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concerned with the nature of human learning

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Epistemologist

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want to know what knowledge is, how to distinguish it, how people acquire, how people use it

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Cognition

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study is part of epistemology

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Copy Theory

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make mental image of something

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Skepticism

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our mental copies do not correspond to reality

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Realism

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eliminate the copy and have the object

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Idealism

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eliminate the actual object

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Pragmatism

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just because we are wrong about one thing does not mean we are wrong about all things

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Dualism

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Descartes, body and immaterial soul

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Religious Dualism

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when soul parts from the body it survives and remebers life on earth

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Problem of minds

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we know our own mind but cannot see or know anyone else mind, so how do we know it exists?