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Psych Lecture 1

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