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reward pathway

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involves VTA which is nucleus acumbens (motor), amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex -involves dopamine

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 Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) addresses both cognitive and behavioural components of addiction. Recognize problematic situations and develop more positive thought patterns and coping strategies, and monitor cravings. Long-lasting!

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left ear hear one thing, right ear another thing. Told to repeat everything said in one ear and ignore the other. We can learn about how selective attention works by seeing what they filter out in other ear

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proposes our brains are similar to computers. We get input from environment, process it, and output decisions.  First stage is getting the input – occurs in sensory memory (sensory register). Temporary register of all senses you’re taking in.

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what you see, lasts half a second

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what you hear, lasts 3-4 seconds

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says it’s easier to remember words associated with images than either one alone.

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implicit memory effect in which prior exposure to a stimulus unfavorably influences the response to that stimulus.

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spreading out studying to shorter periods

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the environment you encode and take the test. • Scuba divers who learned and tested on same place scored better than learned in one place and took test in another. • But not always the case, if you can’t take test in same place studying in different places gives you diff cues for retrieval – so multiple cues that will help you.

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no cues in recalling

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give you “pl” for “planet”.

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was first investigator of decay. Found his rate of forgetting very fast, but if he remembered it after initial stage it levelled out.

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caused by lack of vitamin B1 or thiamine. Caused by malnutrition, eating disorders, and especially alcoholism.  Thiamine converts carbohydrates into glucose cells need for energy. Important for neurons.  Damage to certain areas causes poor balance, abnormal eye movements, confusion, and memory loss. At this stage called Wernicke’s encephalopathy – precursor to KS. If diagnosed in time can prevent further damage. If untreated, will progress to Korsakoff’s. Main symptom is severe memory loss, accompanied by confabulation (patients make up stories to fill in memories).  Treatment is healthy diet, abstain from alcohol, take vitamins, and relearn things.

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is inability to encode new memories. q

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``` false positive (rejection is positive action… so false rejection of null) … is the incorrect rejection of the null hypothesis • so if the null hypothesis was that people can remember 7 things… and the researcher read the things too quickly, this would cause the subject to remember fewer things… thus a rejection of the null incorrectly. • Null = no difference between the groups ```

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false negative (False acceptance) … is the incorrect acceptance of the null hypothesis

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method – using examples that come to mind. • Helpful, but our memories don’t match real state of the world. -stuff that comes to mind easily -usually more extreme like things that happen freq, or vivid, negative things that people think of with an event

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a heuristic where people look for the most representative answer, such as if person matches a prototype. -assuming frat

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* Availability = actual memories in mind | * Representativeness = not thinking of exact memories, thinking of a prototype of idea.

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* Fluid is ability to reason quickly and abstractly. * Tends to decrease as we move into older adulthood * Crystallized refers to accumulated knowledge and verbal skills. * Usually increases or stays same into adulthood

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 Behaviorists– (skinenr) also learnign, empiricist, believe language is just conditioned behavior.  Nativists – (chomsky) rationalist, language must be innate.  Materialist – look at what happens in the brain when people think/speak/write.  Interactionist – (vygostky) emphasizes interplay between environmental cues and innate biology

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thought determines language completely…. In opposition to linguistic determinism

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frontal lobe, understand but not talk

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temporal, talk but not understand

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inabiliity to write

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inability to name things

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* Left side needed for language, right side needed for action/perception/attention. * If you see object on left, won’t be able to name it. Can pick it up with left hand (since right side controls left), but has to be in right visual field before brain can name it. * Ex. showing colors on left side of visual field, information is sent to right hemisphere, which is responsible for perception/attention, but can't speak it, because left brain is needed for language

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hippo wears a HAT | -hippo damage you still remember old memories but cannot form new

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 Positive emotions evoke more activity on left side, and negative emotions evoke more activity on right side.

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Emotions are subjective experiences accompanied by physiological, behavioural, and cognitive changes. All interrelated  Physiological components – when surprised HR increase, muscles tense, temperature increase.  Cognitive – vary person to person, they’re mental assessments that can include thoughts and assessments of situation. Cognitive experiences result from emotions, and can cause emotions.  Behavioural – emotions may bring about behaviours.  Emotions are temporary, and can be negative or positive. Also vary in intensity. They’re involuntary.

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found 6 universal emotions identified by everyone around the world • happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger and surprise. Consistent expressions across culture.

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physio first, you are sad because you cry, not cry because sad

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physio and emotion (feelings) at same time

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two factor, pysio is first and takes into account situational to interpret cognitively

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Thought is FIRST, so you think you are in danger rin a dark ally then your HR increases and shit

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primary: evalutaing for threat secondary: assessing how to cope with stress  Primary appraisal – evaluating for presence of a potential threat. • 3 categories of response to this primary appraisal – irrelevant, benign (positive), stressful (negative). • If primary appraisal is negative, move forward with secondary appraisal.  Secondary appraisal – assessing capability to cope with the threat or to deal with stressor. • Appraisal of harm, threat, and challenge (how to overcome it). • CORTISOL is stress hormone

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 The ANS works with the limbic system and reticular activating system to allow us to experience and understand our emotions • Reticular activating system – overall level of consciousness -- nuclear structures in the midbrain composed of nerve fibers going to and from higher brain centers, which controls our arousal and alertness levels… sleep and wake

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response - sometimes better response to stress is to have support systems. • Oxytocin is important for this – peer bonding. Oxytocin is strongly linked to estrogen, so why this response is stronger in women.

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Approach-Approach conflict  Must choose between two desirable attractive goals Avoidance-Avoidance conflict  Must choose between two undesirable goals Approach-Avoidance conflict - One goal that has both positive and negative elements

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 Reproduction huge energy expense in women, so this gets shut down during stress response. Impotence (sexual dysfunction) is also often caused by stress.

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2 areas of brain with most glucocorticoid receptors are the hippocampus and frontal cortex  Hippocampus is associated with learning and memory.  Frontal cortex is responsible for impulse control, reasoning, etc. Atrophy during chronic stress.

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= tendency for people to have social ties with those who are similar to themselves in a significant way (like being obese)

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 Gray matter contains most of the neuron somas.  White matter contains myelinated axons. • In spinal cord, grey is on inside and white matter on outside. • For brain, different. White on inside and grey on outside. Axons go down tracts of white matter.

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somatosensory cortex, spatial manipulation

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sound, Wernicke’s area

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– major role in motor functions, don’t have UMNs but help motor areas to perform proper movements. Also cognition + emotion.

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 Glutamate – most common excitatory neurotransmitter. • Reticular activating system (required for consciousness) has diffuse projection of glutamate to the cerebral cortex.  GABA (brain) and Glycine (spinal cord) – most common inhibitory NTs  Acetylcholine – nuclei in frontal lobe that releases it to cerebral cortex, called the Basilis and septal nuclei. • Released for LMNs, and the autonomic nervous system.  Histamine – hypothalamus sends it  Norepinephrine – area in pons called the locus coeruleus that releases it. • Also ANS, but less so than Ach.  Serotonin – raphe nuclei in midbrain/medulla release it.  Dopamine – VTA and substantia nigra

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 Brain structure • CAT scans (CT scan) • MRI  Brain function • EEG – external, can’t tell us about activity of individual/groups of neurons. Can only look at sum total. Can tell us about seizures, sleep stage, cognitive tasks. • MEG (aka SQUIDS) – better resolution than EEG, but more rare because requires a large machine and special room to shield it.  Can we combine brain structure and function? Yes! • fMRI – same image from MRI but can look at which structures are active (can see BLOOD FLOW)… oxygen use • PET scans – can’t give us detail of structure, but can combine them with CAT scans and MRIs. Inject radioactive glucose into cells and see what areas of brain are more active at given point in time.

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 What is attitude? A learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way – people, events, objects.  3 components – affective (emotional), behavioural (how we act or behave towards object/subject), cognitive component (form thoughts/beliefs, and our knowledge)

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 More cognitive approach – focuses on the why/how of persuasion.  2 ways info is processed: • Central - depends on quality of arguments by persuader • Peripheral - superficial/non-verbal persuasion cues, such as attractiveness/status of persuader

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 Everyone plays roles in life. Picture yourself in a new role. First few days are a bit fake – we’re trying to follow social quota in that role. Trying to sound professional. But over time, what feels like acting starts to feel like you.  Changed attitude as a result of our behavior and carrying out that role.  Ex. Zimbardo’s prison experiment

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(defence mechanism where someone says or does exact opposite of what they actually want/feel)… like acting like you hate someone when you truly have a crush on them.

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defence mechanism where unwanted impulses are transformed into something less harmful. - mature defense mechanism. - socially unacceptable impulses are transformed into socially acceptable actions/behavior.

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 In order for this climate to help someone reach self-actualization, 2 conditions that need to be met: • Growth is nurtured by when individual is genuine, one has to be open and revealing about themselves without fear of being wrong. • Second is growth is nurtured through acceptance from others – allows us to live up to our ideal selves.  Central feature of our personality is self-concept, achieved when we bring genuineness and acceptance together to achieve growth-promoting climate. • When there’s discrepancy between conscious values and unconscious true values leads to tension, must be resolved. • Genuine + acceptance = self-concept • Importance of congruency between self-concept and our actions to feel fulfilled.

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We have 3 major dimensions of personality, which encompass all traits we all possess, but the degrees to which we individually express them are different. Allport said we have dif unique subsets, Eysenck says we all have them but just express them in different degrees. These 3 are extroversion, neuroticism (emotional stability), and psychoticism (degree to which reality is distorted). However, Eysenck said not all necessarily have psychoticism.

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linked personality to brain systems in reward/motivation/punishment, such as low dopamine correlating with higher impulsivity.

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all of us have different traits. Came up with list of 4500 different descriptive words for traits. From those he was able to come up with 3 basic categories of traits: cardinal, central, and secondary traits.  Cardinal traits are characteristics that direct most of person’s activities – the dominant traits. Influence all of our behaviours, including secondary and central traits.  Central trait is ex. honesty, sociability, shyness. Less dominant than cardinal.  Secondary trait is love for modern art, reluctance to eat meat – more preferences/attitudes.

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is theory of behaviour change that emphasizes interactions between people and their environment. Unlike behaviourism (where environment controls us entirely), cognition is also important. • Social factors, observational learning, and environmental factors (ex. opinions/attitudes of friends and family) can influence your beliefs.

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– related to personality. Involves long-term mental and behavioural features characteristic of a person, huge spectrum of personality types considered acceptable. Personality disorders involve ones outside those accepted of societal norms.  Cluster A odd/eccentric,  Cluster B intense emotional/relationship problems,  Cluster C is anxious/avoidant/obsessive

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having sexual arousal to unusual stimuli

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both biological and environmental etiology.  Abnormal perceptions of reality – hallucinations, delusions.  3 categories of symptoms: • cognitive (attention, organization, planning abilities), • negative (blunted emotions), • positive (hallucinations, delusions) • limbic structure causes negative symptoms a. makes sense b/c schizophrenic people have less emotion • temporal cortex causes positive symptoms. a. Makes sense b/c hallucinations are positive… and temporal is involved in hearing (like hearing things that aren’t there)

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 Abnormal pathways in depression. • One starts in the raphe nuclei of the brainstem responsible for serotonin release. • Also the locus coeruleus, which sends long axons to cerebrum and releases norepinephrine. • Also the VTA sends long axons to different areas of cerebrum, supplies dopamine.  Medications that affect serotonin, NE, and dopamine often improve symptoms. Ex. monoamine oxidase inhibitors (increase amount of monoamines in synapse) • Monoamines include adrenaline, norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, and melatonin (involved in onset of darkness).

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• Starts in temporal lobes, important for memory. • Later, atrophy spreads to parietal and frontal lobes. Many other cognitive functions. Under microscope, 3 main abnormalities: • loss of neurons, • plaques (amyloid, because plaques are made of beta-amyloid. Occur in spaces between cells, outside of neurons in abnormal clumps), • and tangles (neurofibrillary tangles, clumps of a protein tau. Located inside neurons. Develop proteins normally in the brain, but changed so it’s abnormal and causes them to clump together). • Not clear if they’re what’s killing neurons, or if they’re a by-product.

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