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CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Milkshake, Classical Conditioning, Blind Experiment

Data- factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation independent variable- something the

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hermann Von Helmholtz, Cogito Ergo Sum, Thomas Sydenham

Founder of the academy (first western style university- professional academics) Alexander the great (aristotle convinced him a higher standard of learn

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prefrontal Cortex, Reticular Formation, Hindbrain

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Detection Theory, Absolute Threshold, Sensory Neuron

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

Acquisition- an increase in the probability that a conditioned stimulus will elicit a conditioned response. Habituation- a decline in response to stimu

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mary Cover Jones, B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber

Instrumental conditioning- animal must do something to learn, but does not change the environment. Classical conditioning (passive)- animal does not ne

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Habituation, Reward System, Operant Conditioning

An increase in the probability that a conditioned stimulus (cs) will elicit a conditioned response (cr) After conditioning with a light (first cs): If

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prefrontal Cortex, Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory

Short term memory controlled by prefrontal cortex (part of frontal cortex, takes the longest to fully mature- 5% of brain still developing at age 18) H

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Amyloid Beta, Temporal Lobe, Long-Term Memory

Brain scan of normal brain vs alzheimer"s brain. Symptom of alzheimer"s: issues with language )(finding the right words, large section of temporal lobe

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Allan Hobson, Slow-Wave Sleep, Sleep Paralysis

If it is vivid, bizarre, emotionally intense. If we are not distracted upon awakening. Recording the voltage coming off of the brain. Switch that turns

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Little Albert Experiment, Takers, Operant Conditioning Chamber

Pavlov presented the rat and a loud noise at the same time, albert began to associate the animal with a startled response: generalization = when the su

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lucid Dream, Slow-Wave Sleep, Modafinil

Exam 2 next tuesday (10/30/18): most information. Not safe to sleep through the night in deep slow wave sleep- go into rem to be able to wake more easi

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Haemophilia A, Egg Cell, Chromosome

There are definitely critical periods, especially pre/postnatal. 23 from mother paired with 23 from father. Any sequences of the bases that make up the

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: African Grey Parrot, Karl Von Frisch, Waggle Dance

Expressed and solidifies social and cultural bonding. Temporal lobe has grown by almost 10% in last 50,000 years due to development of language. Psycho

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: 16Pf Questionnaire, Walter Mischel, Gordon Allport

How people behave differently in the same situation. How people behave the same in the same situation. Ex: fire alarm goes off, discipline (nazis) A pe

CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mary Ainsworth, Attachment Theory, Object Permanence

Blueprint for a protein (code) (protein is a building block of body tissue) Large conglomerate of dna, 23 from each parent, contain the genes. Any obse