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lectures 5-
psych
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
09/23/2009

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sensation
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process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energy
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perception
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the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
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3 principles
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not a one to one correspondence between physical and psychological reality
sensation and perception are adaptive they are active
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transducting
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detect energy and translate physical stimulation to neural signals
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absolute threshold
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bare minimum to detect stimulus 50% of the time
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heritability
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The proportion of variation across the population that we can attribute to genes
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how to calculate H
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find two correlations, subtract them, multiply by 2
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social learning theory
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we learn behavior by observing
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gender schema
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children form concepts of gender
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developmental psych
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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive and social change throughout the life span
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cognition
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all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication
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schema
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a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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assimulation
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interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas
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accomodation
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adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
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zone of proximal development
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parents help kid do something they couldn't do on their own
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piaget
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children develop in stages, development not continuous
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sensorimotor
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0-2 experience the world through senses, stranger anxiety and object permanence
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preoperational
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2-6 words and images, lack reasoning, egocentrism, pretend play
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concrete operational
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7-11 think logically math, games. conservation skils
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formal operational
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12- abstractly, moral reasoning
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social development
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encompasses the changes in feeling, interpersonal thought and behavior across the lifespan
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freud
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oral anal phallic latency genital
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harlow
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monkeys :(
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attachment theory
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speculate that humans have a drive for intimacy and relatedness
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attachment refers to
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and enduring emotional tie btw child and caretaker
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stranger situation types
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secure avoidant ambivalent disorganized
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kohlberg
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as moral development progresses, the focus of concern moves from self to be wider
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preconventional
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self interest
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conventional
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law and social rules
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postconventional
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abstract principles
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sensory adaptation
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diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation
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selective attention
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focusing of awareness on a particular stimulus
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retina
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the light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information
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rods
Definition
peripheral retina receptors, black gray white
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cones
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near center of retina, color and detail well lit conditions
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bleaching
Definition
Process by which chemicals in the receptors break down, creating action potentials in the retina
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hue
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determined by wavelength, dimension of color
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trichromatic color theory
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red green blue
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opponent process theory
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on off idea
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feature detectors
Definition
nerve cells that respond to specific things, angles, shape
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grouping
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proximity, similarity, continuity, connectedness
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monocular cues
Definition
depth perception, motion, perspective, height
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