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Psych Lecture 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Equipotential | any part of brain is capable of any function |
| Localization | mental processes are in specific brain sites |
| Phrenology | argues for localization, if more brain in that area, more of the function. E.g. bigger lumps correspond to more of that function |
| Aphasia | impaired language without paralysis of muscles |
| Broca | had a patient w/ lesion on left frontal lobe bc of stroke, could understand speech, spoke slowly but unmelodically |
| Wernicke's Apashia | couldnt repeat/understand spoken speech, could sing songs (melodic), speech made no sense, lesion in left/temp area |
| Roy and Sherrington | said when functional areas activated, more blood flow there |
| physical anthropology | observe pple in their own setting |
| cross cultural psych | compares psychological differences |
| Ex: studying a student by going to college | physical anthropology |
| Ex: menopause in guatemale and US | cross cultural psych |
| Ex: baby wont crawl over a perceived cliff even to get to mother | Indicates innate |
| Habituation | decrease in responding with repeated stimulation |
| Paradigms | a broad system of theoretical assumptions a scientific community uses to make sense of a domain of experience |
| Ex: economists assume markets exist | ex of paradigm |
| features of a paradigm | model, set of shared metaphors, methods for gaining data (psych has no para) |
| Psychodynamic | how unconcious conflict creates experience |
| Behaviorist | how we learn observable responses to stimuli |
| Cognitive | How we encode, store, receive information |
| Evolutionary | how nature selects traits |
| Behavioral genetics | how our genes reflect indivual differences |
| Neuroscience | how the body and brain creates experience |
| Social cultural | how social and cultural factors affect experience |
| Freud | psychodynamic |
| tip to body of iceberg | concious: unconcious psychodynamic |
| Psychodynamic assumptions | human behavior is determined by mental processes; most are outside our concious; they conflict and behavior is the compromise |
| Methods of psychodynamic | case studies,interp dreams, analysis of lit, recent experiments |
| Behaviorist | origins are associationist |
| contiguity | think of A and automatically associate B |
| Behaviorist methods | experimental method |
| Skinner | behavioral; developed intstrumental conditioning |
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