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Cognition
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Act or process of knowing or coming to know, in psych used to refer to the process of thought
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Association Cortex:
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Cortex outside the primary sensory and motor cotices (produces cognition)
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The association cortex works with...
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The Thalamus
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An example of something involved in the association cortex is this "skill"
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Attention
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Attention:
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Selective narrowing or focusing of aweareness to part of the sensory world or class of stimuli
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We can direct our attention in two ways:
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Inward and Outward
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Inward attention
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day dreaming
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outward attention
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paying attention to your surroundings
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This helps you pay attention...
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Single neurons, (single firing neurons)
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Attention and the Frontal Lobe:
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People with injuries are overly focused on environmental stimuli
Flexibility direct attention where needed (planning) |
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The ability to flexibly direct attention where needed (planning) also involves this lobe...
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Parietal lobe
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What are 3 examples of attention disorders?
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ADHD
Autism OCD |
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Other disorders involving attention are called...
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Contralateral Neglect
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Contralateral Neglect
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Ignoring a part of the world on the opposite side of a brain injury
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In contralateral Neglect, ______ pathways still function
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sensory
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Can you recover from contralateral neglect?
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YES
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What is extinction
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recovery
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Study of neural basis of cognition
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Neuropsychological assesment:
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Look at a bunch of people with bunch of different brain disorders.
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Neural Integration...
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Handedness and Neural organization.
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What are examples of handedness and neural organization?
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Left hand or ambidextrous
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People who are left handed or ambidextrous have...
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Larger corpus callosum, might by more myelin nerves, or later nerves.
In general, they have more connections in your brain |
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Synesthesia:
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Ability to perceive a stimulus of one sense as the sensation of a difference sense
* only goes in one direction, has a genetic component |
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What is an example of synesthesia:
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Sound produces a color
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What are 3 hypothesis of why synesthiesia happens?
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1. Extraordinary neural connections between different sensory regions
2. Increased activity in area of frontal loe that reveives inputs from many regions 3. Unusual patterns of cerebral activation in response to certain stimuli |
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Intelligence is...
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The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situation. The ability to apply knowledge to manipulate ones environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria.
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What are the 4 Hypothesis on Intelligence?
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1. General Intelligence
2. Multiple Intelligence 3. Divergent and Convergent Intelligence 4. Intelligence, Heredity, Environement and the Synapse |
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General Intelligence
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The G factor
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Multiple Intelligence
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7 types
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Divergent and Convergent Intelligence
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Multiple Solutions for a problem versus zeroing in on one answer
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Intelligence, Heredity, Environment and the Synapse:
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Intelligence A vs. Intelligence B.
Genetic and enviro component Intel A: What you were born with Intel B: What you learn from your environment. |
