PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operationalization, Spurious Relationship, Neuroplasticity

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Everything is the same: everything is a biological pattern of biological activity. What is (cid:862)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge(cid:863) reall(cid:455): pattern being reinforced, program the knowledge we are trying to learn mapping biological patterns, all of these things that we question are neural conversations. Your brain is an intricate network of neurons, much like a culture is a network of people: culture emerges through institutional structures being implemented. Those neurons communicate and form larger patterns and structures, much like our culture communicates and forms institutions and systems of meaning. Neurons throughout the body therefore exchanging neuronal information as well as hormonal information: neurons change quickly. As neurons communicate, an association begins to form between them (much like a relationship forms between two people when they talk to each other) The more they communicate, the stronger the association gets, until it becomes virtually automatic and instantaneous (much like how we build relationships with others, and share private jokes with our friends)