exam 1 Flashcards
learning
the process by which changes in behavior arise as the result of experience interacting with the world
contiguity
experiences near each other in time/space are joined
descartes
dualism
Behaviorism
psychology should restrict itself to the study of observable behaviors and avoid reference to unobservable, and often ill-defined, internal mental events
Cognitive
focused on human abilities such as thinking and reasoning because behaviorism can’t explain cognitive map, language, perception and reasoning
hippocampus
learning new facts
Amygdala
Emotional memories
Basal ganglia
Planning and producing skilled movement
nuerons
collect info, process/ integrate info, output info
Dendrite
collect info
soma and cell body
contains nucleus
axon
integrate and output info
Glia
Provide support, structure, and nourishment for neurons
Distributed representation
best describes the notion that ideas and concepts are coded as an activation pattern across many different nodes
EEG
Directly measures the nervous system
Thalamus
The brain structure receives sensory info and relays it to primary sensory regions of the cerebral cortex
Long term potentiation
The generation of stronger responses of a postsynaptic neuron after repeated stimulation go the presynaptic neuron
