PY 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
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Instincts: simple reflexes and a limited repertoire of innate behaviors. Influenced by genetic programming: learning: experiences produce a lasting change in behavior or mental processes, lasting change- behavior/mental processes. Premack principle: more preferred activity to enforce a less preferred activity. Psuedo-psychology: unsupported psychological beliefs masquerading as scientific truth. The endocrine system: hormones: communication channels among the glands of the endocrine system. Lobes of the cerebral cortex: frontal lobe: movement and thinking, parietal lobe: sensory- touch and feel, occipital lobe: sensory - vision, temporal lobe: sounds. Cerebral dominance: cerebral dominance: tendency for each hemisphere to lead in different tasks. Instincts: simple reflexes and a limited repertoire of innate behaviors: influenced by genetic programming, learning: experiences produce a lasting change in behavior or mental processes, lasting change- behavior/mental processes, influenced by behavior and vice versa. Mere-exposure effect: learned preference for stimuli to which we have been previously exposed (attraction to people/songs and advertising)
