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1
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Frontal Lobe

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Primary motor cortex
speech
planning and impulse control

2
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Phones Gage

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Metal rod in head during transcontinental RailRoad

3
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Aphasias

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problems with speech and language

4
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Broca’s

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speaking (broken speech)

5
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Wernike’s

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understanding speech

6
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Frontal Lobotomy

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Egas Moniz and Walter Freeman

Separate frontal lobe from the rest of the body

7
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Split Brain Procedure

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2 1/2s of the brain are isolated by cutting the connecting fibers

8
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Tachistoscope

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lateralization in the brain of these patients in various areas
Left vs Right hemisphere

9
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Sensation

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activation of receptors in various sense organs

10
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Perception

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Sensations are organized and interpreted

11
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Subliminal messages

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stimuli presented below level of conscious perception of its presence
James Vicary- “eat popcorn” and “drink coke”

12
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Backmasking

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recorded message which has o meaning unless played in reverse

13
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Absolute Threshold

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weakest stimulation of the sense that is detected 50% of the time when presented

14
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Just noticeable difference

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smallest change between multiple stimuli that is perceived 50% of the time

15
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Werner’s Law

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always a constant percentage change rather than a constant amount change
ex. 50 and 51 pound weights vs 1 and 2 pound weights

16
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Habituation (cognitive)

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brain stops attending to constant, unchanging auditory stimuli

17
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Sensory adaptation (biological)

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sensory receptors becomes less responsive with time when exposed to non auditory

18
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Selective attention

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focus on specific aspects and ignoring others

19
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change blindness

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failure to detect important changes when our attention is engaged elsewhere in the task (painting video)

20
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Path of light in eye

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Cornea-Iris-Pupil-Lens

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Fovea

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point of central focus

22
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Retina

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back surface

23
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3 layers of retina

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Ganglion cells, bipolar neurons, rods/cones

24
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More rods or cones?

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MORE RODS

25
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Rods vs cones

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Rods- dark

Cones- light/color blindness

26
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Pathway of sensory info

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Optic nerve-Optic chasm-Thalamus-Visual Cortex

27
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ventral stream

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downward “what”

28
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Dorsal Stream

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upward “where”

29
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motion blindness

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damaging dorsal pathway (Akinetopsia)

30
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Brightness

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amplitude

31
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Color

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wavelength
Red- longer
Blue- shorter

32
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Subtractive coloring

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removing wavelength of light being reflected (black)

33
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Additive coloring

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increasing wavelength of light (white)

34
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Young and Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

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3 main types of cones
Color is red, green and blue
processing at retinal level

35
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Karl E. Hering’s opponent processing theory

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colors are arranged in specific order
ex. look at a picture for a long time, then go to white screen. different colors, same picture
Cortical level

36
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Retinal theory

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perception of color not only based on wavelength, but it also includes interpretation of the visual information

37
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Peter Tripp

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Wakeathon

awake for 8 days

38
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Preservation theory

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animals evolved sleep patterns based on predatory/prey designations

39
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maturation theory

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sleep provides our body with focus and growth

40
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restorative theory

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sleep provides a rejuvenation period to replenish everything

41
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memory storage theory

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sleep effectively organizes memories and experiences from the day

42
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circadian rhythm

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24 hour body cycle

43
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zeitgeberes

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cues to help entrain our rhythm

ex. sunlight/sound

44
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suprachiasmatic nucleaus

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internal clock tells people to wake/fall

45
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ploysomnograph

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analyzes our sleep
EMG- muscles
EEG- brain waves

46
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Beta waves

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smaller/faster (awake)

47
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Alpha waves

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larger/slower (light sleep)

48
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Stage N1 (light sleep)

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theta waves

49
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Stage N2 (medium sleep)

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temperature, breathing and heart rate decreases

Sleep spindles and K complxes

50
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Stage N3 (deep sleep)

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delta waves (slow)

51
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REM sleep

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experiences of dreaming

paradoxical sleep

52
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dysomnias

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difficulty falling asleep

53
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Insomnia

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difficulty maintaining sleep

54
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sleep apnea

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periods of suffocation during sleep

55
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parasomnias

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sleep difficulties where the problem is associated with a specific stage of sleep

56
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somnambulism

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sleep walking

57
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REM behavior disorder

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failure to inhibit muscles during REM sleep

58
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night terrors

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hard to wake up and usually within a hour of falling asleep

59
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nightmare

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late in sleep cycle

60
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sleep talking

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light stages of sleep

61
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psychoanalytic approach

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sketchpad to play our deepest desires

62
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manifest content

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reflection of dream itself

63
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latent content

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underlying meaning hidden

64
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AIM model

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reflect the brain trying to make sense of random firing

65
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cognitive theory

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dreams provide context to problem solve current issues in our life

66
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lucid dreaming

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frontal lobe is asleep, but wakes up during this time period

67
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classical conditioning

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creates associations between multiple stimuli

68
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Pavlov

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discovred classing conditioning through salivary reflexes with dogs

69
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unconditioned stimulus

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automatically triggers an involuntary response

70
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unconditioned response

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elicited by stimulus without any learning needed

71
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conditioned stimulus

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response after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus

72
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conditioned response

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after conditioned stimulus is associated with an unconditioned stimulus

73
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generalization

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new stimulus resembling the original elicits a response c similar to CR
ex. bell to metronome

74
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extinction

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wearing relationship between CR and CS until the CR eventually disappears

75
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spontaneous recovery

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CR securing after a time delay

76
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higher order conditioning

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stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus

77
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Little Albert

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Watson used classical conditioning to create a fear of rats to 11 month old baby

78
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conditioned taste aversion

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nauseation sometime after eating a certain food

79
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Dr. Garcia and radiated rats

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rats did not drink sweetened water after exposed to radiation

80
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anagrams

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re-arraging order of letters to make a real word

81
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learned helplessness

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fail to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures
Seligman’s shock box

82
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operant conditioning

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voluntary behavior based on experienced consequences

Edward Thorndike’s puzzle box

83
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Law of effect

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consequences of behavior are beneficial, then it will be repeated

84
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skinner box

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controlled environment for training animal behavior

85
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shaping behavior

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rewarding successive approximations of desired behavior

86
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reinforcement

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stimulus weakens probability of the response that it follows

87
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punishment

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stimulus weakens the probability of the response that it follows

88
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positive reinforcement

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addition of pleasurable stimulus to increase behavior

89
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negative reinforcement

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removal of aversive stimulus to increase the behavior

90
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positive punishment

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addition of unpleasant stimulus to decrease the behavior

91
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negative punishment

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removal of pleasurable stimulus to decrease the behavior