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PSYC 100 Lecture 1: Week 1 - Introduction and History (PSYC100)

PSYC 100 Lecture 1: Lesson 1- Intro and History

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Western Philosophy, Natural Selection, Wilhelm Wundt

Better answered by what do psychologists do?". Study of behaviour and the mental processes involved. Categories of employment: research, teaching, serv

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gustav Fechner, Blind Experiment, Hermann Von Helmholtz

What is psychology: definition: study of mental and behavioural processes, also the science of the brain b/c without no train of thought or behaviour.

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 1 - Falsifiability, Empiricism, Cognitive revolution

PSYC 100 Lecture 1: PSYC WEEK 1 NOTES

Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour , thought , and experience and how they can be affected by physical, mental and social environmen

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Empiricism, Wilhelm Wundt

Structuralism: knowledge through reduction into elements: wilhelm wundt (1832-1920) sought to identify mental "atoms", used reaction time and introspec

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Science, Noam Chomsky, Empiricism

Psyc100 - lecture 1 - psychology as a science. Psychology is the study of behaviour, thoughts, and experiences. It is important to note that it is not

PSYC 100 Lecture 1: Contact Info: Psych Lecture Notes Week One

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Empiricism, Falsifiability

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Engineering Economics, Empiricism, Falsifiability

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Engineering Ethics, Empiricism

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Psychological Association

Module 2 research methods & statistics sept 19th, 2018. There are many technologies available to help with communication. Experiments: safety, benefits

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informed Consent, Blind Experiment, Standard Deviation

Seek explanations for observed phenomena, make testable predictions, test them. Create & test models of nature (helps reduce bias) Descriptive expe

PSYC 100 Lecture 2: Week 2 PSYC Note Part 1

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Probability Distribution, Normal Distribution, Mini–Mental State Examination

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informed Consent, Operational Definition

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 2 - Probability distribution, Canadian Psychological Association, Informed consent

Psyc 100 lecture #2 research methods. Locked-in syndrome: a condition caused by damage to nerve fibres in the brain, that leaves the victim able to cog

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Little Albert Experiment, Canadian Psychological Association, Operational Definition

Research ethics: research work began with very unethical methods. Ie) little albert study; was introduced to white, fluffy rat and made a loud noise ev

PSYC 100 Lecture 2: Week 2 PSYC Note Part 2

PSYC 100 Lecture 2: Psych Lecture Notes Week Two pt 3

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confounding, Cognitive Bias, Dependent And Independent Variables

Confounding variable- variable that the researcher failed to control. Designing a study- generalizability, reliability, validity (without bias) Subject

PSYC 100 Lecture 2: Lesson 2- Methods and Statistics

PSYC 100 Lecture 2: Psych Lecture Week Two pt 1

PSYC 100 Lecture 2: Psych Lecture Notes Week Two pt 2

PSYC 100 Lecture 3: PSYC100-Lecture 3-Genetics and Evolution

Was a famous artist in thee early 20th century. His children: andrew, henriette, ann, and howard all followed in his artistic footsteps. His grandchild

PSYC 100 Lecture 3: Psych Lectures Week 3

PSYC 100 Lecture 3: Week 2+3 NoteTaker PSYC 100

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin Study, Twin, Phenotype

PSYC 100 Lecture 3: week 3 notes

Understanding the basis of genetics allows psychologists to better understand the relationship between genetics and behaviours, as well as disorders an

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wyeth, Zygosity, Allele

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin, Sexual Reproduction, Guanine

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin, Twin Study, Fallacy

Each human is made up of 46 chromosomes; 23 from mother and 23 from father. Human genes are made up of dna, and genes determine our physical characteri

PSYC 100 Lecture 3: Lesson 3- Genetics and Evolution

PSYC 100 Lecture 4: Lesson 4- Learning

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Habituation, B. F. Skinner

Operational definition: a more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. In all classical conditioni

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Behaviorism, Empiricism, Habituation

Learning: change in behavior or potential behavior that results from experience. Ivan pavlov conducted famous experiment with salivating dog: used a pr

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Central Nervous System, Axon Terminal, Neuroglia

Skeletal- efferent (information travelling out) and afferent (information travelling from distal locations throughout body) Dendrites- branched extensi

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Central Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System

Psyc100- lecture #5- what behavior is made of. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience, not just the study o

PSYC 100 Lecture 5: Lesson 5- The Neuron

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corpus Callosum, Basal Ganglia, Cerebral Cortex

Neuroplasticity- capacity of the brain to rewire itself based on experience. Brain stem- consist of the medulla and pons, perform basic functions such

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Central Nervous System, Arachnoid Mater, Dura Mater

Damage to brain always has an impact. Any neurons that are not used degenerate. Central nervous system (cns): is made up of the brain and the spinal co

PSYC 100 Lecture 6: Lesson 6- The Brain

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jet Lag, Sleep Deprivation, Polysomnography

Circadian rhythms- daily cycle that affect physiological and behavioural processes. Entrainment- when these rhythms sync with the outside world- temp,

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rtems, Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension, Visual Cortex

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Monism, Brainstem, Operational Definition

Dualism: presumption proposed by rene descartes that the human body and mind are two distinct entities that interact to make a person. Monism: two type

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Detection Theory, Absolute Threshold, Response Bias

Sensation- receptors turn physical clues into action potentials (electricity) Perception- the brain then turns the electricity into ideas. Doctrine of

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Citral, Retina, Vestibulocochlear Nerve

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Detection Theory, Absolute Threshold, Psychophysics

Psyc 100 lecture 3 notes: sensation and perception. In order to perceive sensations from the environment, receptors must turn the physical information

PSYC 100 Lecture 9: Vision

PSYC 100 Lecture 9: Vision

Can change in size to increase or decrease amount of light. Cornea- clear cover to eye, brings light into eye like a lens. Lens- focuses light onto the

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Occipital Lobe, Color Vision, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Incus, Basilar Membrane, Sound

Multimodal integration- ability to combine sensation from different modalities such as vision and hearing to get a single integrated perception. Amplit

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thalamus, Chemical Substance, Eardrum

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Incus, Basilar Membrane, Semicircular Canals

Psyc 100: lecture week 10: the non-visual world. Majority of the se(cid:374)ses that are(cid:374)"t (cid:448)isual are po(cid:449)ered (cid:271)y ti(ci

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Suggestibility, Brie, List Of Dragon Ball Characters

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wilder Penfield, Neurosurgery, Mnemonic

Chunking: small units are grouped into larger meaningful units; increases capacity and duration of info in the short-term memory. Working memory: part

PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Noam Chomsky

Semanticity: the use of symbols to communicate meaning. Displacement: describe events at different points in time don"t just have to talk about the pre