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43 Cards in this Set
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"How to Ace Calculus"
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Basic tips about how to succeed in college, written by Adams |
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Weasel Word |
Changing the def of a word halfway through an argument (A way to make a point seem valid without giving any specifics) |
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Appeal to Ignorance |
"God is real because you can't prove he doesn't exist" and "God isn't real because you can't prove he exists" |
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Authentication by Association |
Associating a non-proven thing with a proven thing in order to make it seem valid |
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generalizing from incomplete information |
"This group of people is bad because this person is bad." |
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Overlooking Alternatives |
Just because A and B are related, A didn't cause B. There could be a C |
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Directionality |
A doesn't necessarily cause B and B doesn't necessarily cause A |
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Ad Hominem |
Attacking a person instead of their qualifications |
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Appeal to pity |
"If I don't pass this course, my dad will hate me" |
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Affirming the consequent |
If A than B≠If B than A (If marsha's going, tom will go. Tom is going, but marsha isn't necessarily going.) |
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Circular Argument |
Using your conclusion as a premise (The Bible's real because God wrote it, Bible says God exists, God exists) |
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Complex Question |
A question that one can't answer without committing themselves to a situation "When did you stop beating your wife?" |
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False Dilemna |
"Love it or list it" (nothing in between) |
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Name 7 of Weston's fallacies |
False Dilemma, Weasel Words, Ad Hominem, affirming the consequent, appeal to pity, complex question, directionality, overlooking alternatives, appeal to ignorance, authentication by association, generalizing from incomplete information. |
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the two main fallacies |
Generalizing from incomplete information, overlooking alternatives |
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Cronon Only Connect |
Liberal Arts education |
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name two of Cronons principles |
listen and hear, talk to anyone, practice humility and self tolerance |
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Axon |
'Tail' of neuron |
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Soma |
'Body' of neuron |
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Ancient egypt and neuroscience |
Thought that heart was at the core of thinking, life blood(related to nile) |
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Early Chinese Neuroscience |
describe dementia |
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Hypocrites |
Ancient greece and rome, realized that brain was important |
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Aristotle |
Ancient greece and rome, thought that heart was center of thought, talked about the psyche |
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Galen |
Ancient Greece and Rome, said that ventricles held the mind, talked of the four humors |
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Versalius |
The renaissance, drew accurate brains |
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Descartes |
Renaissance, talked of dualism, thought that ventricles controlled body, thought that the soul was in the pineal gland |
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the 18th and 19th centuries in neuroscience |
Electricity conducted by neurons, whole brain is not doing the same thing, discovered neurons |
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Golgi and Ramon y Cajal |
Golgi developed neuron stain, thought that neurons were part of a unit, Ramon y Cajal recognized that neurons were individuals |
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Dendrite |
Neuron fingers |
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terminals |
fingers off of axon, have neuro transmitters |
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synaptic cleft |
space between connection with other neuron |
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synapse |
connection with other neuron |
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neurite |
axon, dendrite, etc... |
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Brain nuclei |
group of cell bodies (gray matter) |
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white matter |
axons with myelin |
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Ethos |
reason, physical perception |
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pathos |
emotion |
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logos |
logic |
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Case Study |
One person, after the fact |
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Cohort study |
group, over a long period of time, one group exposed to variable, one group not |
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Case Control Study |
Select people with condition, select people without condition, find what's different |
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stages of observation |
observe describe analyze interpret |
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monism problem |
how to get from spiritual to physical |
