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PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Folk Psychology

Psyc100 lecture 1 (prof. hardt not in class: general introduction to course content . Study of human mind, human behaviour, and thoughts and feelings.

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unconscious Mind, Reductionism, Materialism

Psychology psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. (cid:28705)(cid:28679)(cid:28667)(cid:28664) (cid:28678)(cid:28679)(cid:28680)(

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Substance, Res Extensa, Jill Taylor

Psyc100 lecture 3: watched tedx video on intro woman loses her left hemisphere functioning in a brain haemorrhage (studies brain science and mental ill

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anton Zeilinger, Double-Slit Experiment, Null Hypothesis

Empirical structure- quantum mechanisms- double slit experiment prof. anton zeilinger. Change something just by looking at it- reality is not real. Ove

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psych, Behaviorism, Cognitive Model

Psyc100 lecture 4: structuralism vs functionalism: S: analyse consciousness into basic elements and investigate how they"re related (what) F: investiga

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Center For American Progress, Procedural Memory, Artificiality

Argued that when trying to understand cognition/behavioral mechanism, it is useful to consider a simple explanation because very complex behavior can a

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Singaporean Nationality Law, Threshold Of Pain, T-Shirt

Psyc100 lecture 5: complex behaviour can emerge out of small set of principles, factors influencing experiments, rat sensitivity . More pain tolerance

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homo Erectus, Null Hypothesis, Anthropocene

We have no access to what is really there. We can just talk about what we perceive. 2 groups: one is allowed to text, not the other one. We measure dep

PSYC 100 Lecture 6: PSYC100 – Lecture 6

Psyc100 lecture 6 (thursday, 20th september: robot example , what - behavioural description without explanation, why motivational/environmental/evoluti

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Twin, Twin Study, Attention Seeking

We are really good at being attracted to certain things everything out of the ordinary (ex: sounds, when something moves) Understanding how they can be

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Double-Slit Experiment, Homo Sapiens, Type I And Type Ii Errors

Psyc100 lecture 7 (tuesday, 25 september 2018) Continuation from last lecture : empirical structuralism: Inferential stats helps with this: ex: texting

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Milgram Experiment, Social Loafing, Pluralistic Ignorance

Similarities, we like people who are like us. People like you more than you think. Proximity, roommates, neighbors, same building, etc mirror exposure

PSYC 100 Lecture 8: PSYC100 – Lecture 8

Genes: cells nuclei chromosomes contain dna dna contains genes, dna (de-oxyribonucleic acid) Double helical structure ( a-t(u in rna), g-c) Sequences o

PSYC 100 Lecture 9: PSYC100 – Lecture 9

Psyc100 lecture 9 (social psychology- j"s lecture: self and the other anything done in groups is social psychology, abc attitude affective, behavioural

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbiogenesis, Neuroscience, Natural Selection

Darwin"s theory of evolution: organisms best adapted to their environment have a better chance of surviving and reproducing. Ancestral form of organism

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paraplegia, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Facilitation

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sigmund Freud, Aplysia, Psychophysiology

Psyc 100- lecture #10 midterm 1 review. Psychology: stuffy of behavior and the mental and physiological process. It is an empirical science and uses th

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peppered Moth, Flagellum, Prokaryote

Psyc100 lecture 11 (evolutionary psyc last lecture tested on midterm: behaviours are inborn improve adaptation to environment constraints, post hoc exp

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Axon Hillock, Myelin, Sensory Neuron

Continuation of biology portion (chapter 5: how it communicates from one neuron to the next neuron (its electrical message, signal propagation along un

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nucleus Accumbens, Basal Ganglia, Reticular Formation

Continuation of biology portion (lo5: brainstem controls basic survival functions. Reticular formation: when your name is called, you immediately orien

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Simulation Hypothesis, Qualia, Prefrontal Cortex

Inner private experiences we have (experience pain, process colour red) Example of tracy (can see many shades of red): even if someone else has this tr

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sensory System, Finite-State Transducer, Lisa Lopes

Guest lecture farivar, mohseni: visual sensation & perception (main focus on vision: sensations features of environment used to create understandin

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Electrodermal Activity, Monism, Classical Conditioning

An organism might know something but it will only be shown in performance (ex: there is no way to independently access if we have learnt lecture materi

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Classical Conditioning, Associationism, Hard Wired

Psyc100 lecture 19 (tuesday,6th november) (cont. : how learning occurs: Associationism: main intellectual view about how things are learnt even today.

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Long-Term Memory, Henry Molaison, Synaptic Plasticity

Ability to form a record of past. Many allegories for memory thoth, mnemosyne, minerva. River lethe (greek mythology): water of lethe makes you forget

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Donald O. Hebb, Hebbian Theory, Long-Term Potentiation

Psyc100 lecture 21 (tuesday,13th november) (cont. of memory) Synapses as seat of memory changes in connections between neurons are how memories are sto

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Episodic Memory, Hindsight Bias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Psyc100 lecture 22 (thursday,15th november) (cont. of memory: bartlett: War of the ghosts: story difficult to understand cross-culturally. Result: when

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Toothpaste, Extraversion And Introversion, Ibm Officevision

Personality disorders: began with looking as toothpaste such a simple thing can also dictate personality, defining personality: Stable way of thinking,

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Postpartum Depression, Self-Harm, Personality Disorder

Mental problems are not straightforward as medical problems. Ex: if leg is broken, there isn"t much dispute about it, can be easily treated. Mental dis