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Block 1 - Biological psychology - Lecture 1 - Why and how to study the brain
What are aristotle s arguments fo...,
What are aristotle s arguments fo...,
What did descartes say 3
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Lecture 2 - The Neuron and the action potential
What is the neuronal membrane 1,
What ions are in the intracellula...,
What controls the movement of ions 3
12
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Lecture 3 - The synapse
What 3 factors determine the elec...,
Why do ions move across the cell ...,
When do the ions move 3
25
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Lecture 4 - The nervous system
The nervous system 1,
What are the brains surface featu...,
Cerebral cortex 3
9
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Lecture 5 - The senses
What are the 5 senses 1,
What is sensation 2,
What is perception 3
17
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Lecture 6 - Hearing
What is sound 1,
What are the 2 basic features of ...,
What is frequency 3
17
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Lecture 7 - Sleep
What are circannual rhythms 1,
What are circadian rhythms 2,
What are ultradian rhythms 3
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Lecture 8 - Sex and the brain
What is genotype 1,
How many chromosomes does an indi...,
Sex hormones 3
18
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Lecture 9 - Emotion
What are emotions 1,
What areas are involved in emotio...,
Amygdala and emotional behaviour 3
13
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Block 2 - Visual perception - Lecture 1 - The eye
Human eye anatomy 1,
What is muscular degeneration 2,
What is light 3
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Lecture 2 - The brain
Ganglion cells 1,
What is the receptive field of a ...,
What is the excitatory area of a ...
11
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Lecture 3 - The Psychology of visual perception
What is sensation 1,
What is perception 2,
What is structuralism 3
16
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Lecture 4 - When perception goes wrong
Fraser spiral illusion 1,
Jastrow illusion 2,
Irradiation illusion 3
18
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Lecture 5 - colour perception
What does colour do for us 1,
What is colour the visible light ...,
What is the perceived colour of s...
18
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Lecture 6 - Depth/ size perception
What are depth cues 1,
Monocular cues pictorial cues 2,
Monocular cues motion based cues 3
13
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Lecture 7 - Motion perception
What does motion perception do fo...,
What are the ways to perceive mot...,
Physiological evidence of real mo...
12
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Lecture 8 - Object perception + recognition
What is recognition 1,
What is the problem 2,
Solution 3
18
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Block 3 - Animal learning and cognition - Lecture 1 - Historical background
Darwin natural selection 1,
Romanes animal intelligence 2,
Conway lloyd morgan 3
5
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Lecture 2 - Skinner and Pavlov
Skinner 1,
Operant conditioning instrumental...,
Colwill and rescorla 3
11
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Lecture 3 - Animal intelligence
What is aristotle s great chain o...,
Romanes 2,
Brain size and intelligence 3
11
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Lecture 4 - Animal memory
Capacity of animal memory vaughan...,
What is periodic time 2,
Roberts 1965 3
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Lecture 5 - Intro to associative learning
Holland 1990 1,
Konorski 2,
Appetitive unconditioned stimulus...
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Lecture 6 - Associative learning 2
Compensatory cr s and drug tolera...,
Siegel 2005 2,
Newlin 1986 drug tolerance in hum...
14
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Lecture 7 - Learning in humans
Why do people have a craving for ...,
What are the 3 ways to stop smoki...,
What is a phobia 3
13
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Lecture 8 - Problem solving
Definition of reasoning 1,
What are the 2 types of reasoning 2,
Navigation 3
11
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Lecture 9 - Language and communication
What is communication 1,
Honey bee von frisch 1974 2,
Vervet monkey seyfarth and cheney 3
12
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Block 4 - Cognitive psychology - Lecture 1 - Intro
What is gestalt psychology 1,
Wundt 2,
Functionalism james 3
12
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Lecture 2 - Selective attention
What is attention william james 1,
Is attention a module 2,
Posner and peterson 3 component m...
18
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Lecture 3 - Early and late selection
When does selection occur 1,
What is the capacity of the atten...,
Evidence for early selection 2
9
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Lecture 4 - Resource theories of attention
The central executive 1,
Single resource theories 2,
Multiple resource theories 3
13
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Lecture 5 - Mental imagery
What is mental imagery 1,
What does pictorial mean 2,
Functional equivalence kosslyn de...
14
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Lecture 6 - Problem solving
Definition of problem duncker 1945 1,
What are the 3 characteristics of...,
What is a well defined problem 3
21
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Lecture 7 - Creativity
What is creativity 1,
How do we judge creativity 2,
Introspective accounts 3
17
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Lecture 8 - Decision making
What is decision making 1,
What are the types of decisions 2,
Single attribute risky decisions 3
16
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