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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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Anterograde amnesia
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sufferer will not be able to remember anything that occurs after his attention is shifted away from one subject for more than a few seconds.
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Articulation
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stores material in short-lived verbal codes
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Anomic aphasia
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subject has difficulty remembering or recognizing names which the subject should know well. The subject speaks fluently and grammatically and has normal comprehension, and the only deficit is trouble with "word finding," that is, finding appropriate words for what they mean to say
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Association
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each idea has its own identity and forms a link enterohimeo cortex
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Broca's aphasia
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speech is difficult to initiate, non-fluent, labored, and halting. Intonation and stress patterns are deficient. Language is reduced to disjointed words and sentence construction is poor.
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Capacity
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maximum amount of info that can be contained
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Confabulation
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confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories
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Counduction aphasia
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speech is fluent
comprehension remains good oral reading is poor repetition is poor transpositions of sounds within a word ("television" → "velitision") are common. |
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Copy theory
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make mental image of something
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Distributionist
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memories are held in various areas of the brain
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Dualism
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Descartes, body and immaterial soul
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Darwin
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developed natural selection
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Explicit memory
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consists of information stored and retrieved explicitly from the external world. This information is about a specific event that has occurred at a specific time and place.
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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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Epistemology
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concerned with the nature of human learning
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Efficiency
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production of desired effects with minimum waste of time and skills
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Fusion
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parahypocamal and perninal by which ideas are bonded together so perfectly that they can no longer be seperated
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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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Hippocampus proper
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plays a part in memory and navigation.
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Idealism
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eliminate the actual object
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Implicit memory
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is the long-term memory of skills and procedures, or "how to" knowledge
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Inclusive fitness
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encompasses conventional Darwinian fitness with the addition of behaviors that contribute to an organism’s individual fitness through altruism. An organism’s ultimate goal is to leave the maximum number of viable offspring possible, thereby keeping their genes present within a population.
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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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Localization
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the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.
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Aphasia
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loss of grammar or syntax
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Mutations
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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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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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Neural plasticity
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brains natural ability to form new conections
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Parahippocamal gyrus
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plays a part in memory and navigation.
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Paraphasia
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Paraphasia refers to the production of unintended syllables, words, or phrases during the effort to speak
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Pragmatist
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believes just because we are wrong about one thing does not mean we are wrong about all things
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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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Prosody
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refers to intonation, rhythm, and vocal stress in speech.
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Realism
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eliminate the copy and have the object
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Repetition
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repeting over and over
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Retrograde amnesia
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form of amnesia where someone will be unable to recall events that occurred before the onset of amnesia
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Selectivity
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Selectivity, the ability to notice/distinguish small differences
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Skepticism
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our mental copies do not correspond to reality
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Transcortical aphasia
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1) transcortical sensory aphasia: comprehension is impaired, output fluent and may even include jargon, and repetition is relatively good.
2) transcortical motor aphasia: comprehension and repetition very good, but very little spontaneous speech output. |
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Wernicke's aphasia
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caused by neurological damage to Wernicke's area in the brain. Speech is preserved but language content is incorrect
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Word finding
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searching for the correct words to use
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Writing
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inscribing characters
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Verbal fluency
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how quick you can deliver words
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