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Rene Descartes 3 beliefs |
Dualism, innate ideas, rationalism |
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Define Rationalism |
all knowledge comes through logical reasoning |
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Johhn Locke 2 beliefs |
People are born clean slates, epiricism |
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Define Empiricism |
everything is learned though experience |
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Father of psychology |
Wilhelm Wundt |
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Where was Wundt's first psy laboratory |
leipzig, Germany |
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Edward Titchener's school of psy |
Structuralism |
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William James' school of psy |
functionalism |
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psychology in the 1920's |
science of mental life |
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psy in the 1920-1960's |
observing behaviors |
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modern psy |
studying behavior and mental processes |
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Board over psychology research ethics |
Institutional Review Board |
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4 main ethics points |
Informed consent, confidential, debriefing, deception |
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How much of all research is done with animals? |
5% |
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How are empirical questions answered? |
through observations |
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What is skepticism |
everything has 2 or more explanations, the most common is often the case |
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What is a case study? |
a single person (case) studied at length |
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4 Lobes of the brain |
frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital |
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Job of the frontal |
Higher-order thinking, Motor function, broca's aphasia which affects ability to select words |
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Job of the parietal |
Spatial processes and sensory/sensation, wernicke's aphasia which affects ability to understand language |
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Which hemisphere controls language |
left hemisphere |
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Job of temporal |
Auditory |
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What is psychophysics |
relation between stimuli and our perception |
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What is absolute threshold |
minimum stimulation needed to be noticed 50% of the time |
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Difference Threshold |
how different 2 stimuli must be in order for a difference to be noticed |
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What does Weber's law state? |
difference thresholds are based on percentage difference, not amount difference |
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What is sensory adaptation? |
diminishing sensitivity to constant stimulus |
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What is the job of rods? |
to see shapes, black and white |
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what is the job of cones? |
to see color |
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What is the path of light rays through the eye? |
Cornea, pupil, lens, retina |
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what is young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory? |
cones correspond to three wavelengths, red, green, blue |
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What is hering's opponent process theory |
Each of the three types of cones from YH theory respond to 2 different wavelengths |
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Dual Process Theory |
Both theories combined |
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What quality of sound does amplitude determine? |
loudness |
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What quality of sound does wavelength determine |
pitch |
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What quality of color does amplitude determine |
brightness |
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what quality of color does wavelength determine? |
blue/red |
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What is the range for human hearing? |
20-20,000 Hz |
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What causes us to be able to hear? |
Stimulation of fluctuating hair cells on the Cochlear Basilar membrane |
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4 types of touch |
pressure, warmth, cold, pain |
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What is the one sense that does not pass through the Thalamus first? |
Smell |
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what triggers and umami taste? |
glutamate |
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What 2 receptors cause a burning sensation? How to we feel extreme temperatures |
stimulation of warm and pain receptors simultaneously |