ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Somatic Theory, Twin Study, Operant Conditioning
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Passer & smith: mind-body interactions, the relations between the mental processes in the brain and the functioning of other bodily systems. How does it do it: computation: information processing, the highest or most abstract level of analysis is the. Information processing and questioning the steps of it: how a particular system performs computation, implementation level, physical changes occurring in the processing of the problem. Information from the visual scene arrives at the primary visual cortex, where the information is analyzed and recombined. Important with homeostasis: draw a neuron/synapse and name the important elements. Important for consciousness: binding and perceptual selection are closely related, timing of the firing of nerve impulses is the information itself. Iq: mental age/chronological age and why not used anymore: not used anymore because there are loop holes, such as a 20 year old who would have an iq of 400 if his mental age were that of an.
