PSY260H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Cerebral Cortex, Autobiographical Memory
History & Background:
. 1) Define Learning.
. 2) Define Memory.
. 3) Define Nativism. Name 2 supporters & their beliefs.
. 4) Define Empiricism. Name 2 supporters & their beliefs.
. 5) What is the current nature vs nurture stance?
. 6) What are Aristotle’s three rules of association?
. 7) What is William James’ idea that experiences are linked together in the mind?
Describe it.
. 8) Define Evolution. Define Natural Selection. Talk about who proposed them.
. 9) What is the key ingredient for natural selection?
. 10) Who was Francis Galton? What did he do?
. 11) Who was Hermann Ebbinghaus? What did he do?
. 12) What is the exponential forgetting curve? What three things effect this heavily?
. 13) Who was Pavlov? What did he do?
14) Who was Thorndike? What did he do?
. 15) What is the Law of Effect?
. 16) What was the dominant school of psychology before behaviorism? Describe it.
. 17) Name & Describe three key behaviorists.
. 18) What are the 5 principles of behaviorism.
. 19) Why do behaviorists critique examination of mental processes?
. 20) What did Tolman do with maze rats?
. 21) What three people were important to cognitive psychology? What did they do?
. 22) What are the 5 principles of cognitive psychology?
. 23) What is the difference between the cognitive and behaviorist approach?
. 24) What did the Clive video example show?
Basic Brains:
25) What is a superior autobiographical memory? Describe it. 26) What is acquired savant
syndrome?27) What is the nervous system?28) What are neurons?
29) How is the nervous system divided? What are they responsible for?30) What are the three
functions of the nervous system?31) What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex? What do
they do? Where are they located? 32) What are the four cortexes in the lobes.33) What two
brain regions are responsible for tiny adjustments in motor control?34) What is the cerebellum?
What does it do? Where is it located?35) What is the brainstem? What does it do? Where is it
located?36) What are subcortical structures? What do they do? Where are they located?37)
Name 3 subcortical structures and explain what they are responsible for.38) What is subcortical
white matter? What is its function?39) What is the corpus callosum? What does it do?40)
What is the cerebral cortex? What does it do?
. 41) What are some insights into brain size/structure differences between species?
. 42) What is an MRI? What does it do?
. 43) What is DTI? What does it do?
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