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Cognition
action control
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
05/07/2007

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Serial order
Definition
planning the next movement
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voluntary movement
Definition
controlled by cortial and sub-cortical areas
Term
Appraxia
Definition
loss of motor control
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Perceptual-motor integration
Definition
use our senses to move
Proprioception – sensing our environment
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Reaching
Definition
Stimulus identification.inferior temporal lobe
Response selection.inferior parietal lobe
Motor planning.primary motor cortex
Information coded in spatial coordinates
Motor output
Information recorded in terms of motor movements
Execution
Term
Thalamus
Definition
always saying “go”
Term
Substantia nigra and globus pallidus
Definition
inhibit thalamus
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Stratum
Definition
inhibits globus pallidus
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Parkinson’s Disease
Definition
Substantia nigra dies
Rest tremors
Akinesia
Hypokinesia
Bradykinesia
Dyskinesia
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Akinesia
Definition
difficulty with momentary movement
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Hypokinesia
Definition
movement are very effortful
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Bradykinesia
Definition
very slow movements
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Dyskinesia
Definition
problem with control movements
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Huntington’s Disease
Definition
Striatum dies
Hyperkinesias (complex involuntary motor movements)
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Cerebella patients
Definition
Timing of actions
Bad at perception of time, velocity
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Hemiplegia
Definition
Loss of motor control on one side
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Apraxia
Definition
Loss of motor coordination
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Ideational apraxia
Definition
follow verbal commands but you have trouble initiating
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Constructional apraxia
Definition
don’t follow commands well at all
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Sex Differences
Definition
Females have slight edge on verbal tasks
Males have a slight edge on visual/spatial tasks
Term
specialization Genetics
Definition
Skull structure – Left hemisphere asymmetrical  our left side face bones are larger
Term
specialization Environmental
Definition
Fetal position – most fetus’s are head down
Term
specialization Functional
Definition
Microanatomical differences – account for why certain things end up in certain places
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Selective attention
Definition
lower animals can’t focus on a lot at once
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Object permanence
Definition
animals can keep track of an object under 3 cups
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Memory: Operant conditioning
Definition
animals have to remember how to run a maze
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Proactive interference
Definition
if we fail, we try something new
Term
Concept learning
Definition
Pigeons have a good concept of trees, birds, power lines, but don’t care about humans
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Awareness of others: Povinelli
Definition
understanding others’ perception
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Assessing knowledge state
Definition
two men point to food, one has a bucket on his head: The chimp believes the man who can see
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Arbitrariness
Definition
Explains why there are different languages but same mouth sounds
Term
Hall
Definition
Dog/chicken/human embryos all look the same, specie differences happen in utero. This is totally wrong
Term
James
Definition
Functionalism- Believed that human cognitive functions (memory/language) evolved due to our environment
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Cost/benefit analysis
Definition
Cost: a bright color bird – attract enemies easier
Benefit: a bright bird – attract mates
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Punctuated equilibrium (Gould)
Definition
little spurts of change
opposite Darwin
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Epiphenomenal spandrels
Definition
like the fact that blood is red
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Exaptation
Definition
birds use wings as sun visors
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Tomasello
Definition
there was one major event which led us to speak
Term
Processes in the brain development
Definition
Proliferation – growth of brain cells
Migration – neurons spread out in brain
Differentiation – neurons specialize to do certain things
Synaptogenesis – different connections are made constantly
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Brain aging
Definition
Mild loss of neurons
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Plasticity: Cortical reorganization
Definition
-Absence of input – if born deaf, the auditory part of the brain focus on visual/sensory
-Amputation
Term
Neuroanatomical correlates: consciousness
Definition
measured by putting people in different situations and look at brain scans
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Philosophy: conciousness
Definition
-Descartes – mind/body dualism – argues against that mind is brain – our feelings are just instinctive
-Popular dualism ghosts in the machine – our soul and body are different
-Property dualism – mind is integrated with the brain
-Reductionism – consciousness = brain
-Functionalism – look a purpose of behavior
Term
Tulving
Definition
- Anoetic (not knowing) – being aware of things
- Noetic (knowing) – understanding the meaning of something
- Autonoeatic (self-knowing) – aware of ourselves
Term
Pinker
Definition
- Sentience – just being aware
- Access to information – the ability to report conscious experience
- Self-knowledge – ability to reflect on what we know
Term
Wundt
Definition
structure of conciseness, many parts put together
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James
Definition
stream of consciousness, one stream
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Dual coding hypothesis (Pavio)
Definition
- Verbal coding system – something like justice
- Imagery – something about its senses
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Bilateral temporal and left occipital lesions
Definition
difficulty seeing and imagining things
Term
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Definition
the way we describe things verbally is how we think about them
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Color terms
Definition
# of terms varies, but in a regular order – languages always have red
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