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Dualism

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Physical and mental

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Physicalism

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Everything is physical

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Idealism

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Everything is mental

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Solipsism

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All that exists is me and my perceptions, all is part of my imagination

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Propositional attitudes

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Your attitude that you have toward a proposition

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Ratio scale

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Has to have an absolute zero

Ex: income or weight in pounds

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P-value

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Has to be less than 5% to be acceptable
Higher the p-value, the more likely the results happened by chance
Lower the p-value, the less likely the results did not happen by chance

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Posthypnotic amnesia

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“Forget” memories

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Posthypnotic instructions

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Help avoid habits

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Hypnotic analgesia

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Help reduce pain

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Examples of depressants

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Alcohol, zolipidem, benzodiazepines (Xanax)

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Examples of stimulants

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Caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines (ecstasy), methamphetamines (Meth)

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Example of Hallucinogens

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Acid (LSD), mescaline, psilocybin (mushrooms), PCP (angle dust)

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Measure of central tendency

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Mean, median, and mode

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IRB

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Organization that protects the rights of experimental participants

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“Memory w/o awareness”

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Someone who is influenced by a memory that they don’t know they have

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Working memory

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Keeping ideas while working with them, done so by workspace neurons

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Circadian

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Sleep-wake rhythm

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PGO waves

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Done by pons, Geniculate, and occipital cortex; what are activated during dreams

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Heritability ratio for intelligence

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.29-.75

Average is .60

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Fluctuating Asymmetry

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Bilateral asymmetries (finger longer on one hand then the other) 
Higher level=less fit
Lower level=more symmetric and more fit (better at dancing)
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Sexual dimorphism

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Differences in men an women
•women store fat in butt and thighs
•men store fat in neck and abdominal

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WHR

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  • waist to hip ratio that is attractive for men is .6-.7 (or 2/3)
  • women sway hips to look more appealing
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SHR

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Attractive Shoulder to hip ratio is
1-.9 in men
Men stick elbows out and sway shoulders to look more appealing

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Nystagmus

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Smooth pursuit of eyes in one direction and saccade in other

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Saccade

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Jump in eye movement

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EMDR

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Eye movement desensitization reprocessing

Allows a patient to access repressed memories

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Somatoparaphrenia

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Fear of a body part (your arm or leg) and thinking it doesn’t belong to you

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Hemineglect

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Ignore everything on your left side of your body, and in your imagination. Caused by lesion on right hemisphere

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NCC

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V1:deals with sight, lose it and you go blind
V8: deals with color, lose it and you can’t see color anymore
V5:deals with motion, lose it and you can’t see movement

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Behaviorism (Physicalism)

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There is No consciousness in the mind

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Token Physicalism

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Each specific mental state is identical to a specific neural state

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Functionalism (Physicalism)

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Mental states are caused by functional properties of nervous system
Diff type:
•Software vs Hardware as Mental to Brain
•reductive: mental=functional
•non reductive: functional causes mental

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Anosognosia

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Not being aware of ones own disability, caused by lesion in right hemisphere
•cured by cold water in left ear or warm water in right ear

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Eliminative Materialism (Physicalism)

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view that certain common-sense mental states, such as beliefs and desires, do not exist. Will talk in neural biology language

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Panpsychism (idealism)

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Every object is also conscious

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Theory on parietal fields

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Left Hemisphere-attention to right side

Right Hemisphere- attention to right and left side

Psychology 11A (8 decks)

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