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Cognitive Psychology with Dr. May

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Science is not   show
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Cognitive Science doesn't rely on   show
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show complete yet objective  
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show theory that accounts for many descriptions  
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show accounts for all data. must be falsifiable  
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Prediction   show
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show observation and recording of behavior in naturalistic setting. (can't prove causality)  
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show investication that explores relationship bc existing variables. *looks at unmanipulatable variables * cannot prove causality  
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Two important factors of correlation study   show
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show +1 and -1 are the strongest 0 is the weakest  
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show Study in which investigator manipulates one or more independent variable and examines effects on one or more dependent variable *can be causal *exteral validity sacrificed.  
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Criteria for variables   show
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Experimenter Bias   show
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Demand Characteristics   show
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Cooperative/Compliant participant   show
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Non-cooperative participant   show
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Devensive   show
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Experimenter bias and demand characteristics are minimized by ______________   show
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show behavior/events have a cause that can be identified  
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Reality of nature   show
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show iff certain steps are accomplished and something good happens, if these steps are repeated the same outcome will happen  
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show 1. Identify problem/ generate hypothesis 2. design an Experiment 3. Conduct experiment 4. Analyze the data 5. Report the data  
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Disadvantages to Human patients with brain damage   show
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show railroad worker w/ frontal lobe damage. Radical behavior change after accident  
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Henry Gustav Molaison "HM"   show
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show retrograde amesia  
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show nonenvasive. brain responce speed and location  
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PET scan   show
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fMRI   show
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Physical energy   show
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show Hue/Color  
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Amplitude   show
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show 125 mill/eye scotopic vision light/dark rhodopsin periphery  
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show 6-7 mill/eye photopic vision color/fine detail iodopsin fovea  
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show neural impulses  
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Trichromatic Theory   show
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Opponenet-process theory   show
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show pitch  
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amplitude   show
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show hair cells  
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Hair theory   show
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show firing rate of neuron matches a sound wave's frequency  
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show timing of hair cell responses  
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How can hearing differentiate volume   show
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show chemical senses  
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show Basic featues of stimulus are analyzed and recombined to create perceptual experience.  
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show Some aspects are guided by knowledge, expectations are other psychologicl factors.  
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show knowledge from experiences  
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show knowledge innate brain characteristics  
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Knowledge   show
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show Storage-empiricist Organization-nativist  
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Internal representation   show
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show organizational framework used to describe processes.  
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formalism   show
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Neuroscience   show
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Computer science   show
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Evolutionary Psychology   show
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show invasive. use probe to measure electronic impulses in the brain.  
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show study of relationships bt stimuli and the sensations and perceptions envoked by stimuli. (threshold studies)  
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show used to study cognitive processes  
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Priming Studies   show
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show measure eye movement to find information on attention and understand disabilitie like dyslexia  
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show studies on the two hemispheres of the brain  
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show scientist measure impairment caused by brain damage  
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Imaging studies   show
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show debate on the connection between the mind and body  
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Four main parts of neuron   show
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show ridges bt folds in the brain  
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sulci   show
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cerebral cortex   show
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show brain like a muscle and can be exercised. and like a muscle areas that are well developed will bulge out.  
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show destroying portions of frontal lobe has calming effect.  
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show brain opperates as holistic organ  
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show observations of patients with a severed corpus callosum  
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show severing of corpus callosum  
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show based on idea that mind is what brain does-processes information  
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show initial detection of energy from physical world  
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show interpretation of sensory information  
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