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IntroPsychMidterm

OpenYale Course Midterm study cards

QuestionAnswer
Implicit Automatic, natural, unconscious
Explicit Learned, conscious
Neuroscience Study of the mind by looking at the brain.
Developmental Psych Psychology studied from childhood through adulthood as to development, growth and learning.
Cognitive Psych A computational approach to the mind as to language and objects.
Social Psych Study of how we act in groups.
Clinical Psych Study of mental health and illness.
Why study multiple personality disorder? Helps us define what "self" is.
Psychopathy Lack of moral understanding.
What makes up the way we are? Genes, environment, interaction.
Capgras syndrome (or delusion). The person thinks that friends and loved ones have been replaced by identical impostors. Can lead to violence.
Cotard Syndrome Person believes they are dead physically or figuratively, and/or are putrefying.
Folk theories, Flat Earth, "Natural" Opposite of scientific approach
Psychology The science of behavior and the mind.
Wilhelm Wundt "Founder" of psychology.
Descartes/dualism Material Body and Immaterial Soul
Dualism - Body Actions controlled by Body and not by soul (except thoughts)
Dualism - Soul Thoughts controlled by Soul
Limitation of Duality/Descartes Descartes puts thoughts (soul) out of the bounds of science (so it's a limit to psychology's birth)
Hobbes Materialism - no spirit or soul, only a mechanism. Physiology (empiricism).
Physiology Empiricism - everything is mechanical.
Magendie Reflexes
Sechenev/Pavlov Reflexology - every behavior is a reflex caused by environmental stimuli.
Empiricism Human behavior and thought derive from sensory experience (physical and solar environment).
Association by Contiguity 2 stimuli/sensations happening close in time or at same time elicit thoughts of each other.
Nativism Knowledge and rules of operation native to the mind (inborn).
a priori Knowledge Inborn operational rules (Darwin defined these as part of survival development (behavioral tendencies/anatomical changes all the FUNCTION of behavior)
a posteriori Knowledge Acquired (one needs a priori to get posteriori)
3 Biological analyses of behavior/experience Neural, Genetic, Evolutionary
5 Experiential analyses of behavior/experience Learning, Cognitive, Social, Cultural, Developmental
Phineas Gage Pipe through head, no immediate effect, later behavior matching damage to frontal/prefrontal lobe.
Proprioception Awareness of one's own body.
Epistemology The theory of knowledge. The nature, scope and limitations of knowledge. How do we know what we know? What is knowledge? ...etc.
Hippocrates The first philosopher/doctor to say Brain = Mind (rather than heart = mind)
Neurons Nerve cells in the brain.
3 types of Neurons Sensory (senses) Motor (muscles and glands) Inter- (carry messages in central nervous system and organize them)
Parallel Axons Tracts - nearby clusters of neurons and axons carry similar or related functions - easier to map the brain.
6 parts of Neuron Cell body, cell nucleus, dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, axon terminals.
2 Nervous System Hierarchies Sensory - perceptual hierarchy - somatosensations derived from whole body. Motor - control hierarchy - cranial and spinal nerves - skeletal or autonomic (skeletal moves/autonomic modulates like heartbeat - automatic)
Autonomic Nervous System behavior Sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) Parasympathetic (conservation of energy)
2 Spinal Cord tracts Ascending (up to brain) and Descending (down to muscles) (some reflexes controlled only by spinal cord - no brain)
Brainstem parts bottom to top Medulla, Pons, Midbrain
Brainstem function Instinctive behavior patterns (where it resides in brain)-balance, breathing, heart-rate
Thalamus Sits atop the brainstem. Is a relay station for Sensory and Motor pathways.
Cerebellum Wraps around Brainstem. Controls fast, coordinated movement and skills - like sports and musical instruments. Happens too fast for thought.
Basal Ganglia Sits both sides of Thalamus. Controls slower deliberate movements like walking or pickup up objects, including ADJUSTING hand as it moves (direct feedback).
Limbic System Hippocampus, Amygdala. Separates old brain from new brain.
Hippocampus Wraps around basal ganglia. Controls basic drives and emotions, smell, emotions into action along with Amygdala.
Amygdala Attached to front of Hippocampus and is another part of the Limbic System. Controls basic drives and emotions, smell, emotions into action along with Hippocampus.
Hypothalamus At front of Limbic System, just below front of Thalamus. Regulates internal environment of body - influences autonomic nervous system, certain hormones, hunger, thirst, sleep, metabolism.
Cerebral Cortex Outer bark of brain, largest 4 main lobes.
4 lobes of brain Frontal (front) Temporal (inside lower) Parietal (top/back) Occipital (lower back)
2 sensory areas of brain Motor - band vertically behind frontal lobe. Somatosensory - band just behind Motor and in front of Parietal Lobe.
Corpus Callosum Neural axons which connect left and right hemispheres of brain.
Left side of Brain is generally associated with... Verbal skills on this side of brain...
Right side of Brain is generally associated with... Spacial skills on this side of brain...
Which side of brain comes up with conscious narratives for our actions, even if irrational... Left side of brain can narrate in this way...
Aphasia Language Damage (left)
Broca's area front side - speaking/understanding complex sentences
Wernicke's area mid side - problems with appropriate words, use connectors and no nouns... also trouble understanding bigger words...also sentence my have structure by missing words to make sentence meaningless
new neurons grow (especially where?) yes, hippocampus
Francis Crick Astonishing hypothesis a person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.
Why is Dualism now considered wrong? The mind is what the brain does (physical) and is not the soul. The mind is material.
Dendrites Positive Excitatory
Dendrites Negative Inhibitory
Axon Path of firing
Modulation of Sensation in Neurons Number and Frequency of neurons firing
Gap between Axons Synapse
Chemical that jumps synapse Neuro-transmitters
2 types of Drugs that affect Neuro-transmitters Agonists-increase neuro-transmitters Antagonists-slow down neuro-transmitters
Apraxia Motor control issues
Agnosia Recognition (psychic blindness)
Prosopagnosia Face-blindness
Sensory Neglect Don't know you have a part of your body
Aphasia Language issue (talking or understanding)
Acquired Psychopathy Damage caused loss of what's right and wrong
The Hard Problem of Consciousness Mechanism or humanistic/spiritual values
Freud - repressed unconscious memories defend against what? Anxiety (defended against by what? - Freud...)
Freud - Humans social stance is... Asocial and only pulled together by sex aggression.
Karen Horney - Humans social stance is... Social, need for security, to soothe anxiety.
John Bowlby Object Relations Theories is... How you are treated by parents - if inconsistent you seek approval...
Alfred Adler main concept Drive to feel competent based on helplessness and inferiority of childhood...
Ann Freud concept Defense mechanisms - to escape anxiety in consciousness
5 Defense mechanisms Repression, Displacement (with sublimation), Reaction formation, Projection, Rationalization
Repression (Basis for other defense mechanisms)- repression is when anxiety-producing thoughts are pushed or kept out of the conscious mind, but can leak in and get distorted by the conscious to be more palatable.
Displacement Redirected unacceptable unconscious desire, like suckling for older kid, so kid chooses lollipops. Also "sublimation," where aggression is best as a trial lawyer instead of beating people up.
Reaction formation Conversion of a frightening wish to its opposite - hates mother unconsciously so consciously feels intense love for her//acts homophobic because unconsc. is attracted to men.
Projection Put own feelings onto others. Feel unconsc. angry, so we say other person is angry.
Rationalization Can't face own feelings so explain away with opposite explanation - can't face sadistic feelings, beats kids, then says it's fatherly duty...
Vaillant's "mature defense" Suppression - means and avoidance of negative thinking but the negativity is conscious and available, like in humor...
Psychodynamic Therapy Concept Mental problems arise from unresolved mental conflicts - contradictory motives and beliefs.
Resistance Forgetting, arguing, cancelling appts. - can show progress toward unconscious...
Transference unconscious feelings about someone can be experienced consciously toward the therapist - also can be a breakthrough or opening...
Psychodynamic "Cure" Unconscious emotions move to conscious so change can occur (instead of constant conflict).
Humanistic Therapy 1-People have ability to make adaptive choices in their behavior for survival and well-being. 2 - people need to feel accepted and approved of by others
Carl Rogers theory Humanistic - each person decides what is true and worthwhile for a meaningful life. Client-centered
3 Freudian Unconscious elements Id, Ego, Superego
Id Pleasure Principal
Ego Self - mediator of id and superego, reality and logic (at least consciously)
Superego Guilt, internalization of society's moral standards
Psychosexual Stages Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital
Oral stage 1st year (breast feeding - don't wean too early or you may fixate...)
Anal stage 1 to 3 yrs - anus pleasure, toilet training - mistakes can lead to compulsion...
Phallic stage 3 to 5 years - genital fixation, masculinity in males, attention in females, oedipus...
Latency stage 5 years to puberty - repress sexuality (because of oedipus?)
Genital stage Puberty through adulthood - culmination behavior is either healthy or not or combo?
Regression additional defense mech. of retreating to an earlier stage of development...
Hysteria a symptom used to keep things unconscious - but if memory is released, catharsis can happen
Catharsis explosive release of unconscious memory (release from hysteria...)
2 types of dreams Manifest - what you know Latent - hidden symbolism
What is a criticism of Freud? He is not wrong and perhaps not right, so perhaps not scientific (like astrology can't be wrong)
What is still accepted of Freud today? The unconscious.
Skinner on Language Behavioral and learned
Who attached Skinner's language concept and why? Chomsky because Skinner was too simplistic and unscientific.
Learning Experience at one time alters behavior at another time
Classical Conditioning A form of learning based on the formation of new reflexes
Reflex stimulus-response system mediated by the nervous system
Stimulus An event in the environment
Response The behavior result of a stimulus
Habituation Decline in magnitude of response to stimulus after several repeats
BEFORE CONDITIONING Neutral stimulus----no response Uncond. stimulus---Uncond. Resp. DURING CONDITIONING Neutral stim---uncond. stim--uncond. resp. AFTER CONDITIONING Conditioned Stim.---Condit. Resp. Classical Conditioning Chart
Extinction Giving conditioned stimulus with no pairing of unconditioned stimulus (food) and cond. response goes away over time.
Spontaneous Recovery After extinction, response can come back partially
Generalization Cond. Response can happen to similar conditioned stimuli to the original
Discrimination training can fine tune generalization to get back to specific stimulus/response training by withholding food reward.
John Watson Father of Behaviorism
Compensatory Reactions The body feels a stimulus and prepares and compensates - like drugs or being pushed, etc. Conditioned Stimuli trigger responses that prepare us for a biologically significant event.
Operant Conditioning Responses that produce an effect, like hitting a lever and getting food. Operant = instrumental
G.L. Thorndike Puzzle boxes - "Law of Effect" - Responses that have a satisfying effect occur more frequently than unsatisfying
BF Skinner "Skinnerbox" - Reinforcer is reward
Partial Reinforcement Fixed Ratio (nth), Variable Ratio (nth average), Fixed Interval(time), Variable interval (time averages).
Punishment Opposite of reinforcement
Positive Punishment adding a punishment to decrease response
Negative Punishment removing reward to decrease response
Discriminative Stimulus stimulus that teaches discrimination of when reward will come (tone on-food when press, tone off-no food when press)
Reward Contrast Effect Good food vs. bad food reward rats learn difference and respond in kind.
Overjustification Effect Reward given for something already enjoyable - then taken away - interest level on enjoyable act drops BELOW where it was before experiment.
5 ways Play differs from non-play 1-Context is impossible-attack yarn as prey where no prey would ever be 2-Drive state absent-no real fear, anger, hunger 3-Repetition-don't usually attack more than once 4-Differing sequences-fight, play, run from yarn 5-Social play signals-play face
Exploration learning Learning environment safety, reducing fear, latent learning simultaneously while actively learning.
Observational learning Watching someone else with stimulus and goal (press lever for food). Or, act aggressive or gentle.
Food Aversion (specialized learning) Uncond. stimulus - Nausea comes much later than in classical conditioning. Stimuli are restricted - smell and taste work but looks don't scare us.
Food Preference (specialized learning) Rats and humans self-select varieties at slow, tested pace to fit nutritional needs. (doesn't work with processed or sugar-laced foods)
Social Learing in Food (specialized learning) eating what others in the group eat.
Innate biases Snakes, rats, spiders - can be taught observationally. But blocks and flowers as stimuli did not work. Cannot fake or teach non-innate bias fears.
Imprinting Bird babies following first face as mother. If wait too long, chance is lost. But if happens is IRREVERSIBLE.
Place Learning Birds hiding seeds (spatial memory/hippocamus), salmon returning to river (smell)
Evolutionary use of the Unconscious Deception - complex lies we tell ourselves and others create signals for survival. It is best when we send those signals without us knowing about it. Others sense it.
3 foci of Behaviorism 1-Learning - everything is experience-no human nature. 2-Anti-mentalism - Internal mental states unscientific because unobservable. 3-No Species Differences-rats' learning same as humans.
Evolutionary use of Habituation Adaptive mechanism to keep us focusing on new objects and events.
Classical conditioning The learning of an association between one stimulus and another stimulus.
What is the new theory of timing in classical conditioning? Putting cond. stimulus BEFORE unconditioned stimulus causes PREPARATION. (old way was simultaneous)
"Law of Effect" More response if rewarded, less if not.
Shaping rewarding for each behavior CLOSER to goal, and adjust until you get the behavior
Slot Machines Partial reinforcement effect - and/or - variable ratio
Is everything learned? (actually) No - some things are innate.
Are mental states unscientific? No - other sciences us unobservables - complex organisms need to be observed with internal representations.
Do animals need reinforcement/punishment to learn? No - innate exploration exists - rats do it anyway - only faster with food.
Positive Reinforcing Giving something positive (increases good behavior)
Negative reinforcement Removing a negative(increases good behavior)
Phobias are both... classically conditioned and/or evolutionary
Chomsky negative on Behaviorism? Behaviorism in humans too vague because it is unfalsifiable.
Chomsky OK with Behaviorism how? In non-verbal animals and for training purposes and learning mechanisms.
Kinesthesia Your internal feeling of your own body
What can babies do at 42 minutes old? Learn, see, smell, imitate!
Habituation in babies They look at new stimuli longer than what they are used to.
Babies interacting vs. controlling environment Want to control more
Babies and detail Find unique properties of objects
Babies and encouragement Babies do not need adults to encourage examining things
Joint Visual Attention Babies watch for cues from adults and their objext
Social Referencing Babies look at caregiver's expression for clues as to danger of own actions
Core Physical Principals - Empiricists Locke/Berkeley say it is learned
Core Physical Principals - Nativists Descartes/Kant say it is innate
"Selective Looking" experiments for "Core Physical Principals" Object permanence - show baby possible act and impossible act and baby stares longer at impossible act - has concept of object permanence.
2 learning theories of children by whom? Piaget - child acting on physical world Vygotsky - child interacting with others, sociocultural
Piaget's schemes Mental blueprints for actions
Piaget's Assimilation New experiences incorporated into existing schemes. Must be related to existing scheme.
Piaget's Accommodation The expanding of a scheme to allow for the assimilation. But assimilation should be for something not TOO easy and should require accommodation for mental growth.
Piaget's Operations Reversible actions - On/off/on - child can think about this with Operational Schemes.
Piaget's 4 stages/schemes of development PART 1 Birth-2y-SENSORIMOTOR SCHEMES-thought and overt action are the same. 2y-7y-PREOPERATIONAL SCHEMES-ability to symbolize objects/events that are absent/use saucepan as raygun-No reversible action knowledge (really?) Not able to do milk/2 glass experiment.
Piaget's 4 stages/schemes of development PART 2 7y-12y-CONCRETE OPERATIONAL SCHEMES-Reversible actions, also know that ball of clay is same size as sausage roll of clay. Correct about milk/2 glass experiment. 12y-adult-FORMAL OPERATIONAL SCHEMES-Conservation of substance/theories/like unbeating egg
Piaget's "Scientist Child" Child learns by acting on objects and environment
Vygotsky Language role in kids As communication, then as symbols for thinking
Vygotsky Private Speech in kids Ages 4-7, speech becomes internal for planning, then as adults words dissolve into pure mental symbols
Vygotsky Collaboration and Dialogue in mental development Converse socially first, then privately internally. "ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT" is diff between what child can do alone and can do in collaboration with a MORE COMPETENT OTHER.
Vygotsky Apprentice Conceipt Child learns to perform and function by behaving in a way valuable to his culture.
Explicit Memories We know them
Implicit Memories We don't know them but they affect behavior, like riding a bicycle.
Semantic Memories Explicit memories of word, fact, belief meanings.
Episodic Memories Explicit memories about events in life-2yrs old a little/more between 3-4. Must be able to encode memory into language, and that usually means talk by child AND adult. Self talk will not encode memory.
Premack We divide things into THINGS WHICH MOVE and THINGS WHICH DON'T and we assign psych properties to former and not latter.
False Beliefs Inability to believe something which is not true - Age 3. But at age 4 you can (Maxi puts cup in blue cab, leaves, mom comes in moves it to red cab, maxi back -- 3 yr thinks maxi will look in red, 4 yr thinks maxi will look in blue.
Pretense Make-believe play. Age 2 to 4 understand fake play even if don't understand false belief, especially if done in make-believe voice.
Most children competent with language by what age age 3 to 4 competency with (before tying shoes)
Morphemes Symbols, smallest meaningful unit of a language which stand for objects, events, ideas, characteristics, relationships
Content Morphemes nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs (main meaning of sentence)
Grammatical Morphemes articles (a, an the), conjunctions (and, but), prepositions (in, of) - some prefixes (re-) and suffixes (-ed)
What does it mean to say Morphemes are arbitrary? Morphemes need not connect to object - Dog and Chien are not related to an aspect of the dog.
What does it mean to say Morphemes are discrete? Morphemes need another morpheme added to it to gradate it - like big must become bigger to change it. If you change to Huge, it is a different morpheme.
Why are nonverbal signals different from morphemes? Nonverbal signals are not arbitrary - actions look like what they are. Also not discrete - big can be said out loud as BIG so pronunciation changes its meaning instead of added morpheme.
Hierarchy of Language (4 parts) 1-Sentence 2-Phrases 3-Words(Morphemes) 4-Vowels & Consonants (Phonemes)
Are grammatical rules learned implicitly or explicitly Implicitly - we don't have to be able to state or understand the rules.
Early Speech Sounds - define Babies treat speech as special - choose it over music - choose mom's voice over other voices.
Cooing and Babbling equal what phonemes? Coos = vowels Babbles = consonants
Babies and native language - how/when do they distinguish phonemes? Up to 6 mos. babies distinguish ALL phonemes all languages. After 6 mos. they only distinguish own language. This is why Americans can't roll r's in French well, or Asians can't say l's easily.
Which comes first, word comprehension or word production. Word comprehension precedes...
Word Categories 2 year old can extend meaning of a ball to apply to all balls, etc.
Overextending of words Saying all round things are balls. Because child does not know words for other items, and also sometimes applies one or a few prominent features of 1st object to others.
Grammatical rules for child (plurals and past tense) Child may use s and ed endings incorrectly a lot, but knows the rules. (comprehends before producing usage correctly)
Innate Language Acquisition Device (LAD) The mind - Universal Grammar is an innate property of the human mind. Critical period is 1 - 10 yrs old.
Creole/Pidgin Mixed language created from 2 mixed cultures - a new grammar is often created as a full language within one generation.
Language Acquisition Support System (LASS) The social world baby is in. Motherese and frequency of interactive talk helps baby learn faster. But also other cultures who DON'T talk to baby carry baby everywhere and babies learn from listening to others - just as fast.
Piaget milk in 2 glasses test is what concept? Conservation (test for it)
Piaget "Genetic Epistemology" The origins of knowledge.
Assimilation example sucking Suck breast then suck bottle
Accommodation example sucking Change way mouth sucks bottle after sucking breast
How do we explain baby development? Neural maturation and accumulation of knowledge.
Social predictors for babies Babies stare longer at surprising social and illogical action. They learn to predict logic and illogic in social settings. Also don't understand deception.
Baby Development of Freud/Piaget General Changes in how we think
Baby Development of Chomsky/Fodor Separate Modules - modular is separate and partially pre-wired systems for social and physical reasoning. Innate knowledge and constrained development.
Mindblindness Inability to understand or recognize what is or could be in another person's mind.
Autism Condition, mostly affecting boys, about 1/1000, lack of social connectedness, language impairment, mindblindness, treating people as objects.
Simon Baron-Cohen Psychologist specializing in Autism: "Males are just slightly autistic versions of females."
Modules People, objects, artifacts (used in sociology, intuitive biology)
D'arcy Thompson's answer to why we study development? "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."
Stephen Jay Gould's answer to why we study development? "Is a zebra white with black stripes or black with white stripes?" The answer is in embryonic development.
Darwin quote on language: "Man has an instinctive tendency to speak..."
All languages share 3 things Syntax-rules for combining (grammar) Morphology-words Phonology-basic sounds
Number of grammatical sentences under 20 words? 1 x 10 to 30th power
Instinctive free will in language is: We can create and understand sentences we never heard before.
Top-down processing in language We fill in gaps - when we know what something is we hear it that way.
Ferdinand de Saussure The arbitrariness of the sign (morphology). We can assign any sound for any thing.
Average speaker knows how many morphemes? 60,000 - 100,000 Multi-language person can know 300,000
Willhelm von Humboldt "The infinite use of finite media" Combinatorial system using recursion. Fred likes Wilma. Barney thinks Fred likes Wilma, etc. Infinite.
Chomsky and language development It's like growing organs (but you must interact)
Language birth to 4 mos. Preference for melody of own language (even at 4 days), but sensitive to ALL phonemes.
Language 7 mos. Babbling
Language 12 mos. First words, actions, properties, word order. Lose openness to all phonemes of different languages - preference for only own language now.
Language 18 mos. Learn words faster, 2 word sentences, function morphemes like a, the, of in, appear for kids.
Language 7 yrs. to puberty Ability to learn language recedes and to master new language recedes.
Phenomenal vision What you see that you construct with sight.
Relational vision What you see that you interact with in some way.
Photoreceptors Light sensitive cells
Transduction The stimulus from the environment which generates electrical changes in neurons.
Cones Deal with bright light - 6 million
Rods Deal with dim light - 120 million
Rhodopsin The photochemical eyes' rods use
Subtractive color mixing Pigments absorb certain wavelengths
Additive color mixing Using colored lights to mix colors
Three primary law 3 colors mixed from 3 parts of wavelengths can match any color seen by eye
Law of complementarity Pair of wavelengths can be found that when combined produce white
Dichromatic vision blindness of one color, usually red or green
Trichromatic theory RGB receptors
Opponent-process theory Opposite colors excite different neurons differently. (this is why we see opposite when bright color is suddenly taken away)
Contours and exaggeration to see objects our brain exaggerates the contrast of contours to help us detect objects
Lateral inhibition neighboring neurons to certain shades are inhibited near change points
Elementary stimulus features (sight) Any object's properties which stimulate vision identification. Seen by "feature detector" neurons.
Anne Treisman - Feature integration theory of perception Parallel processing of primitive features (color, shape) Serial processing of of integration of features, spatial objects, secondary objects
Gestalt Principals of Perceptual Grouping 1 We perceive whole organized patterns and objects - "The whole is different from the sum of its parts."
Gestalt Principals of Perceptual Grouping 2 PROXIMITY-3 sets of dots instead of 21 SIMILARITY-lines versus dots in group CLOSURE-things behind things GOOD CONTINUATION-wiggly X we see 2 lines. COMMON MOVEMENT-groups seen as 1 if move together GOOD FORM-simple uncluttered form seen as 1 (crosse
Unconscious Inference - Herman von Helmholts Take visual features and whole and infers what is present. We infer contours to try and make most sense of vision (relates to "good form")
Illusory Lightness Differences Challenges the Inhibition model of illusory controls at the neuron level.
Top-down control Brain feedback to sensory areas
Bottom-up control Sensory areas send input to brain
The 2 streams of visual processing What (objects)-eye to occipital down around to temporal Where/How (spatial/movement/interaction)-eyes to occipital up around to parietal
Visual Agnosia can see but does not know what he is seeing
Visual Form Agnosia Can't see shape
Visual Object Agnosia Can't identify item
Damage to What area of seeing Can't see it but can grab and handle it.
Damage to Where/How CAN see it but can't move toward grabbing or handling it easily
Irving Biederman-Recognition-by-components theory 36 geons, or shaped components, form all objects
Visual recognition basis of Context Far away tree you can recognize leaves. But not without seeing tree because too far and small.
Visual recognition basis of Motion Still frame of body with lights on it in dark not recognized. Then just 2 frames of movement is instantly recognized
Eye convergence eyes turn in to focus on object and give depth, but only useful very close
Binocular disparity each eye sees object slightly differently due to spacing of eyes - and brain processes into one object and depth is created
Pictorial Cues Occlusion, relative image size, linear perspective, texture gradient, horizon, lighting
Size constancy Size and distance are readable even in objects we don't know, because of distance cues
Unconscious Depth Processing The reason optical illusions in 2d on paper trick us (size, etc)
Why don't apes have similar language to us? We split 5 to 10 million years ago. Time enough for evo change.
Reading is different from language. More difficult and not natural and fully learned.
Preference for own language begins when? In utero
Perception (Bloom) Is hard, involved educated (unconscious) guesses about the world
Attention (Bloom) we attend to some things and not others, miss a surprising amount, attention helps choose what gets in from all the sensory input
Memory (Bloom) many types, the key is organization and understanding, can't trust some memories, even sometimes wrong about Past AND NOW.
A.I. Minsky "People are meat." So he assigned Vision to a grad student - but vision is too complex and not part of the "meat" idea.
Inferring 3d from 2d info Very Hard, mathematically impossible, so we solve it with unconscious assumptions about how the world works.
Shadow When we see an object in shadow we assume it is brighter than it is because we are not really seeing it as its actual brightness so how do we know? We fill in the logic.
3 broad memory ideas (Bloom) Autobiographical Language Physical
Amnesia 2 types 1-Amnesia about past 2-Amnesia hindering forming NEW memories
Sensory Memory Residue Lasting effect of event in senses Longer echoic effect in sound than other senses - how we keep up with passages
Long Term Memory Stored history about location, events, autobiography
Long Term Memory Explicit/Implicit Conscious - what I had for dinner Unconscious - ride a bike
Encoding Storage Retrieval (Recall and Recognition) Getting new info in Hording the info Getting info out (pull out and recognize)
Involuntary Attention Naming colors
Involuntary Attention (harder) naming colors of letters when written as other colors (experiment)
Change Blindness (in attention) attention to one thing can limit attention to others so you may miss a major change or event
Permanent Learned Attention Can't be unlearned - reading, seeing, listening
Priming Memory primed by previous experience, outside of episodic memory. Must be part of semantic memory of concepts, unconscious, associations, etc. Subliminal flashing is a type of priming.
Priming with Anmesiacs Prime amnesiac, then ask them to guess and they will remember better because many amnesiacs have episodic damage, not semantic
Memory The change within an individual, brought on by learning, that can influence the individual's future behavior.
Consciousness The experiencing of one's own mental events in such a manner that you can report on it to others.
Modal-model of the brain (info-processing) sensory input->SENSORY MEMORY BOX (unattended info quickly lost)->attention->WORKING MEMORY BOX(short-term)(maintenance/rehearsal circle)(unrehearsed info quickly lost)-><-encoding/retrieval(back and forth)=>LONG TERM MEMORY BOX (some lost over time)
Sensory Memory prolongation of all 5 senses 1 sec for sight 10 secs + for hearing Mostly unconscious but if we use attention it is stored (may be stored somewhat anyway)
Working Memory Short-term and conscious perceive, feel, compare, compute, reason. Fed both sides by sensory AND long-term memory (past experiences) - lots of info in and out of consciousness.
Long Term Memory Fed by Working Memory - Unlimited and dormant until called upon (as retrieval) (and always encoding is rehearsed/attended/needed)
Control Processes (memory) Attention-flow of info from sensory(lots) to working memory (limited because busy!) Encoding-move from working into long-term, memorizing/non-deliberate (like reading or ideas) Retrieval-long term back to working-remember/recall-active,automatic,trigger
Pre-attentive processing way of dealing with sensory competing needs - unconscious determines relevance to survival and top-down processing helps from working memory, like a gate
Selective Listening and viewing Conscious attention sorting sensory input
Stroop interference effect The colored words test with words written differently than colors are seen, mus decipher
Attention physiology Unattended stimuli DOES activate brain. Attention MAGNIFIES that area of brain.
Working Memory = Active conscious thought and short term memory
Phonological Loop Holding verbal information, digits remembers, span of short term memory
Spatial Sketchpad Visual and spatial - mental images of items used in memory
Central Executive Coordinates mind's activities and bringing in of new info from sensory and long term memory
Dual tasking Easier to dual task phonological and visuo-spatial than to do 2x one of them.
Words in brain Working memory of words is similar area of brain to actual speaking and listening to words
Visuals in brain Visual-spatial is similar area as actual vision and "what" and "where/how" pathways.
Visual and Verbal Brain Prefrontal Cortex lights up when either of these is held - area is hub of Central Executive portion of working memory
Memory Maintenance Rehearsal hold info in working memory
Memory Encoding Rehearsal Goes into long-term memory storage
Memory Elaborative Rehearsal (Elaboration) Understanding meaning or attempting to - we remember more when prompteb by meanings than by simple visual or sounds related to words only.
Chunking (organizational memory) Large numbers of items grouped together in smaller units, sentences for EADGBE, etc
Expert Memory (expertise effect) use logic of expected info from long-term memory for efficient chunking of new info. Architect can remember whole idea and design/novice can't. Same with chess moves for pro player.
Hierarchical Memory Organizational technique
Visualization Encoding (memory) Add visual info clues to verbal info to encode better - example, the mental walk, attach landmarks to each item to remember and walk the landmarks, look at each and recall.
Anterograde Amnesia Loss of capacity to form new long-term memories after accident
Retrograde Amnesia Loss of capacity to recall long-term memories before accident
Labile memories Easily disrupted memories
Solid memories Not easily disrupted memories
Consolidation (of memory) The transition from Labile to Solid memory (at accident, memories closest to memory are lost and less so as go back in time)
Mental Associations memory retrieval Long-term retrieval using associated memories (which are primed)/the stimulus is a RETRIEVAL CUE for that memory
Aristotle's Association by Contiguity (memory) Associated because they occurred together in the person's previous experience (napkin and plate)
Aristotle's Association by Similarity (memory) Associated because they have one or more property in common (apple and rose are red) (but is a derivative of contiguity because was contiguous at some point)
William James Metaphysical memory philosophy Man's ability to separate properties from the object and link to other objects - SUNSET=HERO'S DEATH but for a dog SUNSET=DINNER TIME
Network Models of memory organization Vast network of mental concepts linked by association, like a web. Closer (more related) links feed faster.
Elaborative Rehearsal (encoding) for memory adding complex connections to item to cue or prime. Montpelier capital of Vermont. Mont is like mountain, which vermont has. Also sounds like mountain peeler, so wind peels snow off mountain. Vermont has snow. This works.
Contextual Stimuli (for memory recall) Rooms, smell, settings helps recall priming if originally studied in that context.
Memory Construction Distortion Encoding a memory is fragmented and we fill in gaps based on what happened or what we THINK happened. As time passes, harder to distinguish actual and what we THINK happened. Called DISTORTION.
Bartlett - Pre-existing beliefs - schema and script SCHEMA-generalized mental representation or concept of any given class of objects, scenes, events SCRIPT-is a schema involving events in time (birthday is games, cake, sing, candles, presents...)
False Eyewitness Memory Suggestibility AFTER the fact shapes memory - film of car accident - when viewers later asked about "crash" or "impact," description different - broken glass, speed higher for "crash."
False Childhood Memories More subject to suggestion especially if paired with visual imagery suggestion, not just verbal or thought suggestion.
Source Confusion (false memory) Actual memory is confounded by cross-examiner and retelling, etc.
Social Pressure (false memory) Person EXPECTS you to remember, so you do, even if vague. You turn it into an actual memory the more you repeat it. Also possible to get pressured that a real memory is WRONG and did not happen.
Multiple Memory Systems - EXPLICIT Explicit (1)episodic-own past experience, personal, memory of self dong it "THINKING BACK TO IT" (2)semantic-Not tied to experiences, like word meanings, schemas, facts, ideas acquired THROUGH experience. "JUST KNOW IT"
Multiple Memory Systems - IMPLICIT Implicit (1)procedural-motor skills, habits, unconsciously learned rules, practice (2)priming-Sensory input activation from long-term memory - unconscious.
Multiple Memory Systems - facts Explicit Semantic and both Implicits are OLDER than Explicit Episodic. Also, damage in HM proved in testing that Explicit and Implicit memory damage can be separate.
Long Term Memory HUGE CAPACITY, but we don't remember everything in there. No one knows how big.
Short Term Memory Limited, held in consciousness.
Understanding encodes memory best Beyond maintenance rehearsal, add meaning and understanding and it lasts. Elaborative Rehearsal and Retrieval works here - make it detailed and hard - SEARCHING STRATEGIES.
Flashbulb memories Like 9/11, big memories, the more you talk about them they can change subtly
Romantic love similar to infant/parental security and anxiety-avoidance marital success is understanding of the other's unexpressed emotional needs
Peter Salovey - Love's 3 components (need all 3 to qualify) INTIMACY-felling of closeness, connectedness, bonding PASSION-drive that leads to romance, physical attraction, sex COMMITMENT DECISION-one loves another and commits to maintain love
Peter Salovey - Why we love who we love -7 ideas (Big 3) Proximity (close in space) Similarity (opposites don't attract) Familiarity (people we know)
Peter Salovey - Why we love who we love -7 ideas (More interesting 4.1) Competence (with blunders/pratfall effect) Physical Attractiveness (attractive person's opinions have more impact on us)
Peter Salovey - Why we love who we love -7 ideas (More interesting 4.2) Gain-Loss Effect (GAIN-love over and over is tiring/mild love grows we respond)(LOSS-always negative can't hurt over and over/start high then neg HURTS MISATRIBUTION OF AROUSAL (the chemical rush of the moment can affect love/caffeine/climbing mountain)
Consummate love and monogamy - more than one partner possible? Evolutionarily - Yes Socially - No
Evolutionary Psychology is like reverse engineering - the mind evolves, not behavior, but the mind controls behavior
Artificial Selection (vs. natural) Existed for years as breeding before Darwin introduced natural selection
Mutations role in natural selection Generally hurtful to survival, but sometimes helpful, multiplied which increases offspring and passed on
Environmental Change A force for natural selection. Environment changes, so we adapt, if it did not change we would not need adaptation. But Environment DOES change. Does NOT cause mutations. But promotes natural selection
Evolution has no foresight - 3 ideas No future plan No route - Amoeba and humans of equal value as best adapted to environment No Morals - nature is neither good nor bad
Functionalism Why we do what we do is Survival. Funtionalism tried to attempt to explain behavior in terms of what it accomplishes for the behaving individual.
2 Explanations of Behavior Ultimate-evolutionary level, what the behavior does for survival (songbirds sing at mating time in spring because it's mating time) Proximate-mechanism of immediate conditions (songbirds sing spring because earlier sunrise stimulates brain & testosterone
Limitation of functionalist thinking Some traits are not useful
Vestigial characteristics (good and bad at times) grasp reflex may be neutral or good hunger for sugar can be hurtful
Some traits side effects of nat. selection for other traits Belly buttons for umbilical cord Art/culture/music for mating or communication
Genetic Drift Traits with no real need, like nose shapes or schizophrenia in Sweden
Evolved Mechanism Weaknesses/strengths Guilt-good for preserving relationship but bad if crippling
Inductive Reasoning Infer new principle by clues, like wake up, see wet ground, must have rained.
Availability Bias Using info most available to us, like murders on rise because on news. We never think of heart attacks because not reported as much. Also letter D experiment (always guess as 1st letter instead of 3rd, even though 3rd is more prominent-1st easier/avail)
Confirmation Bias Our proclivity to say Yes, so science experiments should strive to DISCONFIRM.
Predictable World Bias We are strongly predisposed to see order in the world where there may be none (superstitions and gambling hope)
Deductive Reasoning Logical proof if certain premises true, like mathematics (we are biased to use Inductive over Deductive, i.e. use real world knowledge BEFORE doing the math)
The Astonishing Hypothesis Behavior and Mind is THE BRAIN
Natural Selection Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Paley Theologian who coined Creationist Design
2 problems with creationism 1-pushes back question of where did creator come from 2-evidence for evolution-fossils/vestigial characteristics/continuity with other animals-also occasional poor design (God makes mistakes?)
Evolutionary Psych and Darwin Our cognitive mechanisms evolved for survival and reproduction, shaped by natural selection to solve certain problems.
Evolution of brain (9 uses) Perceiving world Communicating Nutrition & Rest Select/Attract Mate Learn Physical/social environment Make Decisions Choose Allies/Enemies Figure out desires/beliefs of others
Misconceptions about evolutionary psychology 1 Why do we eat? Because we are hungry and it tastes good (proximate - psychological) Ultimate might be survival, but that is not psychological. Same with spreading seed - we don't WANT to psychologically - proximate is horny/psychological.
Misconceptions about evolutionary psychology 2 Protect our children-Ultimate is evolution to protect genetic heritage Proximate is psychological based on emotion and love
Ashley Montague on learning Man has no instincts - all is learned, everything is adaptive WRONG
Why everything is NOT adaptive evolution distinguishes between adaptations/by-products/accidents/mistakes/evolutionary dead-ends. Debate is more what is adaptive vs. what is a mistake sweets(mistake)/snake-fear(adapt)/arts (unsure)
Menand Everything is biological but after that it's all up for grabs because people are more interesting than that and evolution/bio may not answer things like culture/art
Why Study Evolution? 1 It is relevant, interesting, tells us what's innate or not, can address ancient/modern problems/chess and adapt/not-adapt timelines/truths. Chess is NOT adapted - too modern.
Why Study Evolution? 2 What sorts of differences in humans show up in psychology - study through evolutionary theory - age, sex, culture - also morning sickness and fish sick vs. alcohol no-sick - alcohol too new
Sibling Non-Attraction ideas Proximity/Similarity-why we don't lust after siblings/evo-bio says built-in incest-avoidance/is Ultimate(deep)/Proximate is just the "EEWW"factor. Being raised together/seeing Mom care for sib.
Heuristic Experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning and discovery. "Rule of thumb."
Rationality and Heuristics A new concept is that we are NOT rational thinkers, but have evolved instead to reason using rough & ready heuristics. Not always good...
4 Heuristics we use to solve problems (1) Framing Effects (& loss aversion)-How a question is framed, we hate loss, choices relative to a reference Ignorance of Base Rates-describe a nerd and ask if he is engineer or lawyer - people say engineer even though he is lawyer
4 Heuristics we use to solve problems (2) Availability Bias-murder/shark attacks on news more so more dangerous than potato salad (wrong) Confirmation Bias-we try to confirm hypothesis rather than deny
William James on psychological science Our natural actions seem obvious, but are worth studying and NOT obvious from a psychological science point of view
Spock A wrong theory of emotions - without emotions we do nothing at all...
About emotions and why they are good 1-emotions are evolved mechanisms that set goals and priorities 2-shaped by cultural context/different triggers and baselines 3-BUT have universal roots Phineas Gage example of why emotions are good - he lost many of his (or control of them)
Faces Universal, implicit, not learned, even the blind use their faces like everyone else. Some subtle cultural differences only.
Smile types Greeting-"Pan Am" smile-fake-hello Happiness-Full up to eyes-"Duchene Smile" Coy/appeasement smile-(some evidence) Smiles are CONTAGIOUS
Fear A non-social emotion (can be social), but fear of falling off a cliff is not social
Universal Fears (ancestral/ancient) Spiders/snakes/heights/storms/large animals/darkness/blood/strangers/humiliation/deep water/leaving home alone
Not Universal Fears (new) Guns/cars/electrical outlets
Altruism (social emotion) Animals are NOT merely survival machines. Kindness would not be needed otherwise. We take care of offspring to reproduce, but are also kind to non-kin.
Disease organisms Colds (sneeze), toxoplasmosis (rats less afraid of cats, cats eat rats, spread disease), syphilis (causes arousal), rabies (dogs bite other dogs)
Altruism 2 If evolution happens at genetic level - selfish genes lead to altruistic behavior - because there is no distinction between oneself and another
Haldene's Math (altruism) Would you lay down your life for your brother? No, but you would for 3 brothers, 5 nephews, 9 first cousins.
Lions and genes New lion takes over pride, kills or chases males, kills babies, and females actually spontaneously abort - to protect new leader's genes
Altruism to Kin Humans-babies are cute to us/baby-face bias in adults. A baby's cry is balanced to get attention but not annoy too much to get it killed
Baby's respond to Parents Skinner - cupboard theory - needs food. Bowlby - comfort and fear of strangers Harlow - cloth mom vs. wire mom (comfort)
Display rules of facial expression Management of expressions is cultural Expressions seem universal So the LANGUAGE of emotions may be cultural but not the expressions.
Species-typical Behavior Evolutionary but ALSO influenced by learning
Elbesfeldt "Eyebrow Flash" Happy surprise to see you. Blind kids do it too. Cultural differences in use like dialects, but we all recognize it in own culture more easily
Species-typical Behavior and LEARNING Walking & Talking are species typical, but to an extent must be learned to fully develop
4 behavior analysis questions 1-What env. conditions needed for full devel. 2-What internal mechanisms involved in producing it 3-What consequences has it in daily life 4-why did evolution choose these genes
Homology in species specific study (best for psych study) Homology is any similarity that exists due to the different species common ancestry (share genes so similar in construction)
Analogy in species specific study (OK for psych just for inferences about ultimate function) Analogy is any similarity which comes from CONVERGENT EVOLUTION, 2 different species develop common characteristics (birds, bats, insects) (share gross form/func but not detail/mechanism)
Greeting Smile (apes) To say "Don't Attack" - eventually became "Let's be friends."
Happy Smile (apes/humans) All is safe, playing. People laugh louder and more when aggressively playing to signal all is safe.
Emotion A subjective feeling that is mentally directed toward some object.
Self-conscious Emotion Directed at self at object. Pride, shame, guilt, embarrassment.
Affect The feeling associated with the emotion. Pleasure or Displeasure OR Arousal or Not (activation or deactivation).
Free-floating emotion No object emotional feelings, or MOODS
Plutchnik 8 primary emotions cone. (not agreed-upon, emotions too subjective and descriptions affected by culture and language)
Emotions serve/cause Serve adaptive functions for evolution and reproduction. Cause peripheral bodily changes in heart, blood, muscles, etc.
William James on Emotion Peripheral Feedback Theory-body changes first then CAUSES emotions-body reacts to stimulus first.
Schachter's Theory of Emotion Cognition PLUS feedback (James +1)
Ekman on Emotion Facial expression feedback - force a smile, feel happy.
Amygdala and Emotion Assesses emotional significance of stimuli. CORTICAL (slower) eyes back to visual cortex to amygdala with processing SUBCORTICAL (fast) eyes directly to thalamus to amygdala before processing
Removing Amygdala causes what? Psychic Blindness - can see things but indifferent to significance.
Subcortical reactions 1-Flashed images 2-Also if visual damaged, image can still get to amygdala and cause emotional reaction-this may account for irrational emotions and conscious reasoning may not help.
Prefrontal Cortex and Emotions Essential for conscious experience/reaction to emotions (unlike amygdala unconsc.) Prefr. Labotomy destroys conscious/emotions/organize lives. Prefr. Right - neg emotions Prefr. Left - positive emotions
Social Dilemma Benefits the individual/hurts the group
Social working/contribution Individual cooperation/solution
One Trial Prisoner Game 2 players either confess or stay silent.
Iterative Trial Prisoner's Game Play more than once - best to cooperate each time.
Cooperation a group size Larger group, less cooperation Smaller group, more and harder work
Tit for Tat Winning strategy to the prisoner game. First time you meet, cooperate. Rest of time, do what other did to you previously.
Promoting Cooperation Accountability, reputation, reciprocity. We automatically help without considering reciprocity because more efficient to just help.
Altruistic Punishment All players benefit and usually stops cheaters (bats not sharing blood) Neuro images show anger at cheater and pleasure at cheaters' punishment
Ultimate Games (cheaters) $100 - Proposer asked to split anyway he wants, but if not taken neither gets anything. If Responder is offered less than 50%, he usually walks, neither win (punishing proposer for "cheating") Rational person easier to exploit (if they take less).
Personal/Social Identity 2 different aged people introduced as part of "same town" will cooperate more than if not or as individuals as diff. age. Groups are more hostile than individuals
Altruism to babies Babies don't imprint magically, but attach over time.
Isolation in young age psychosis - monkeys showed signs and one killed own baby - early attachment is critical
Non-kin altruism Grooming/warning cries/shared child care/food sharing/reciprocal altruism - benefits outweigh the costs
Altruism beats cheaters how? Gene A - bats accept blood/share blood Gene B - accept blood/don't share Gene B WINS, but is BEATEN because bats punish cheaters - otherwise altruism would not evolve - but it does.
Social emotions of the prisoner's dilemma Gratitude and Liking of those who cooperate and motivated to be nice in future. Anger and Distrust to those who betray us/we do same in future Guilt when we betray someone who cooperates, so we behave better in future.
Violence Murder mostly based on insult, curse, petty infraction. In warring societies turning cheek not adaptively positive. Differs culture to culture.
Cultures of Honor Can't rely on law. Resources easily taken. Excessive violent retaliation essential to keep resources. American south, Scottish Highlanders, Bedouin, Cowboys
All emotions - Not noise but complex motivational systems crafted to deal with natural and social environment.
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