PSYCH 2GG3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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Synaptic pruning during learning is very bene cial! Learning: all relatively permanent change in potential for behaviour the result from experience, but are not due to fatigue, aging, maturation, drugs, injury or disease. Learning is a change in brain structure and physiological changes. (some of which may be observable, and some not). Bubba (grandmother) psychology: an intuitive sort of folk psychology also known as implicit or naive psychology. Example - chemical imbalance is the reason behind psychiatric disorder. Only 10% of the brain is used (false) Left and right brain hemispheres have distinct and clearly separate functions. The brain does not change, and no new neurons are born after birth. (you are born with all your brain cells) Is truth and knowledge based on things we can see and feel etc. The premise - knowledge is connected to learning / exploring surroundings through sense.