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| producing the same Conditioned response from a similar stimuli close to the Conditioned stimulus |
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| Responding differently to two similar stimuli's because they predict 2 different outcomes. |
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| A return of an extinguished response after a delay |
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| Conditioned stimuli no loner produces a conditioned response. |
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| After a break, the extinct CS produces the CR |
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| Pavlov CR is produced from a Unconditioned Stimulus...resulting in a CR to a CS. |
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| Increasing the chances of the most recent response |
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| every behavior has a consequence and the consequence determines if the behavior will re-occur. |
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| the subject operates on the environment to produce an outcome |
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| Difference b/w Classical and operant conditioning |
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Operant- changing behavior by providing a reinforcement after a response.
Classical- A change of behavior doesn't matter, there will still be a response to a CS or a UCS. |
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| an event that follows a response and increases the later probability or frequency of that response. |
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| contrast to reinforcement: anything that decreases the probability of a response. |
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| giving something that strengthens or increases the likelihood of a behavior. |
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| Increases the frequency of a behavior, reinforcement that is the absence of something. |
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| punishment by avoiding something good. |
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Primary Motor Cortex
1. location
2. Function |
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1. Frontal Lobe
2. controls fine movements of the body |
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Temporal Lobe
1. location
2. function |
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1. Left and right sides of the head
2. main area for hearing and some aspects of vision |
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| Language comprehension comes from what lobe in the brain? |
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| Left hemisphere of the temporal lobe |
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| Language comprehension comes from what lobe in the brain? |
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Left hemisphere of the temporal lobe
Brocha's area.
Simple comprehension as well (Wernicke's area) |
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Parietal lobe
1. Location
2. Function |
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1.In-between frontal lobe and occipital lobe.
2. Controls the body senses |
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Somatosensory cortex
1. Location
2. function |
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1. on the parietal lobe, touching the motor cortex.
2. Has cells that are sensitive to touch
(most sensitive areas, hand and lips have larger areas devoted to) |
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| What is the function of the right hemisphere in the Parietal lobe |
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| Visual-spatial precessing |
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| Name the three regions of the Cerebral cortex |
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1.Frontal lobe(motion)
2.parietal lobe (touch senses)
3.occipital lobe (visual processing)
4.Temporal lobe (hearing and some visual) |
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| Connects the two hemispheres of the brain, allows them to communicate. |
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| Severing(surgically) the Corpus Callosum allows for? |
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| Prevents patients with severe epilepsy toe prevent seizures from spreading to both hemispheres |
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Autonomic nervous system (PNS)
1. Function
2. Composed of 2 parts? |
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1. Consists of bundles of nerves between the spinal cord and the rest of the body
2.a)sympathetic (burns energy/ fight)
b)parasympathetic (conserves energy/ flight) |
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Central nervous system
1. Parts creating CNS
2. Function |
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1. Composed of brain and spinal cords
2.communicates with the PNS |
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| Transfer of functioning that can occur when part of the brain is damaged. The healthy part of the brain takes over the functioning. |
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| Stimulus over-selectivity |
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| over attention to only one aspect of a stimulus (can explain both autism and savant syndrome) |
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| Stimulus over-selectivity |
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| over attention to only one aspect of a stimulus (can explain both autism and savant syndrome) |
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| The frequency of the population of that category |
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