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Yale 110 - Exam 1 Lectures
Yale PSYC 110 Exam 1 Chun Lectures (non book)
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/02/2010

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Nun Study
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happiness correlates with life expect.
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hedonic adaptation
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get used to good things
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neuron parts
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soma, dendrites, axon, meylin sheeth
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fMRI
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non invasive, indirect technique, detects oxygenation level in local cerebral flow (hemoglobin; deoxygenated is more paramagnetic)
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Face/Place
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only one lights up at a time
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attentional blink
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failure to recognize a second target after a first one
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why imaging is great
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can measure unconscious thought!
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overt discriminations
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blatant
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aversive discrimination
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unintentional, unconcious
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why is there prejudice?
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1) people categorize 2) in-group/out-group 3) zero-aquainatance thin slices 4) expectations lead to results
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stereotype threat
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people's perceived risk that they might support a negative stereotype
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ways to resolve prejudice
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more visibility (obama), work toward a common goal
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intelligence
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goal-directed, adaptive behavior (ability to learn)
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Intelligence tests
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Binet-Simon, WAIS-III
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general intelligence factor
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spearman's g
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psychometric
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measure differences in behaviors and abilities
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Sternberg's Intelligence
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analytical, creative, practical (sociocultural based)
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how to guess what baby's think
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babies get habituated to stimulus. New stimulus produces a novel response.
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cattell's intelligence
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crystalized and fluid
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gardener's theory of multiple intelligences
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lots of unrelated forms of intelligence (language, music, logical, spatial reasoning, etc.)
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music?
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enhances IQ
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terman study
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super smart kids don't necessarily end up the best
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differences in intelligence
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group diffs are much smaller than individual ones
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david/jessica
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people associate ambiguous actions with men showing more masculine things and smarts.
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Paiget's stages
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sensorimoter (run around gain understanding of environment, object permancence), preoperational (18 mo - 6 yrs, learn how to use representations, lack reversible mental operations, egocentric, develop ToM), Concrete Operations Stage, formal operations stage
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Piaget's probs
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vague, actual stages are not distinct, underestimated abilites, and ignored social environment
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delay of gratification
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indicates success at a ton of stuff! including SAT
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observational learning
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boy hits doll (social referencing)
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parenting
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authoritative (firm), not authoritarian (power assertion)
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self-ranked happiness?
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correlates with actual quantitative study
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affective forecasting
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people are BAD at guessing their future hapiness!
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why doesn't money buy happiness>
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hedonic adaptation, relative wealth, how you spend your time
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way to be happy?
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have goals!
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face selective cells
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superior temporal sulcus
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face and places in brain
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parahippocampal place area (PPA) and fusiform face area (FFA)
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what attentional blink can tell
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our mind still sees the target (activity in the brain!) but not at the conscious level
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prepared learning
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harder to extinguish fear of fear relavant images (snake) than fear-irrelevant images (butterfly)
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babies language
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cry according to language, segment based on artificial language
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