PSYCH 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Color Vision, Hypothalamus, Operant Conditioning
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Core ideas: a representative transformation is taking a concept or idea (a representation) and changing it to create a new idea or concept. Transforming it this way helps to bring into light other theories and ways of looking at ideas. Top down and bottom up: top down: when you start from a general sense of the issue/concept/idea and work down to the smaller parts or concepts and detail work. An example of this is darwin, he was able to extrapolate his theory of evolution from looking at a small sample of it on his island with his finches. Trade offs: trade offs are giving up one advantage for the benefits of another. The trade off is a riskier birth for the benefits of walking upright. In the eye, the simple trade off example is accuracy/sensitivity. In the foreva, you have less sensitivity (less receptors) but more accuracy in image.
