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42 Cards in this Set
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plasticity
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the brains ability to change or adapt in response to change and adapt in response to experience, by reorganizing and growing new neural connections
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sensation
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the detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects; its occurs when energy of the external environment or body stimulates receptors of the sense organs .
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perception
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the progress by which the brain organizes and interprets sensory information.
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absolute threshold
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the smallest amount of energy that a person can detect reliably half of the time
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sensory deprivation
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the absence of normal levels of deprivation (solitary confinement; can cause hallucination)
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Hue
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color; has to due with length of the wave
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brightness
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intensity (heightened) of light emitted
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saturation
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colorfulness; complexity of light waves
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vision
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idk
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Retina
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contains visual receptors
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trichromatic theory
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first level of processing of getting from the retina
-ones that responds to red, green, and blue. different experiences of hue |
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opponent theory
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a theory of color perception that assumes that the visual systems treats pairs of colors as opposing or antagonist
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gestation
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maybe she meant gustation
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gate control theory
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in order to see pain it passes through our body
-the theory that the experience of pain depends in part on whether pain impulses gets past a neurological gate in the spinal cord and thus reach the brain |
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control over phantom theory
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goes against gate theory i think
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kinesthesis
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the sense of body position and movement of the body parts
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equilibrium
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the sense of balance
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ESP
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extra sensory perception (sixth sense ability to know without really knowing.)
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cognitive schema
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models of our world
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proposition
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expresses one or single idea
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Mental image
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mentral representation that we form in our mind.
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Subconscious process
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out of our awaness but can get right back to it; automatic routine
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Non conscious process
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sudden problems outside of awareness
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Mindlessness
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sense of acting speaking with out really processing information
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Reasoning
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purposeful operating activity to reach a conclusion.(make inferences)
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alderisms
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recicipes or set of procedures
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Inductive reasoning
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although conclusion may be supported doesn’t mean it is true
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in deductive reasoning
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all human being are mortal, thus I am mortal
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Informal reasoning
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heuristics (incomplete) and dialectical reasoning
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heuristics= course of options that does not guarantee an optimal solution
dialectical reasoning=a process in which opposing facts or ideas weighed and compared, with a view to to determining the best solution or resolving differences |
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King and kitchner
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looking at stages of judgement and base their seven stages on what they seen
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prereflective stage
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assume a correct answer exist (through our own sense)
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middle or quasy
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somethings can be known with certainty
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reflective judgement
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though no certainty some can be considered valid
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Alfred Binet
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a scoring system developed later by others used a formula in whcih the child's mental age was a divided by child's chronological age to yeild an IQ
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Conceptual
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practical applictions of intelligence
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Experiential
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transfer skills of what has been experiences
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Componential
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internal information processing stratergies : recognize prob, strategize, establish answers
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David Wechsler
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wechsler adult intelligence scale= provided IQ and dif kinds of ability.
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intelligence
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an inferred characteristic if an individual, usually defined as the ability to profit from the experience, acquire knowledge think abstractly, act purposefully, or adapt to changes in the environment
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IQ
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a measure of intelligence originally computed by dividing a person's mental age by his or her chronical age and multiplying by 100; it now derived from norms provided for standardized intelligence tests
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hindsight Bias
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the tendency to overestimate one's ability to have predicted an event once the outcome is known; the " i knew it all along " phenomenon
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read chapter 5 part
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