PSC 1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
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Psc week 2 cont: schemas-knowledge structures we have stored in our memories, ex. Idea/interpretation of classroom, restaurant: guide your attention to relevant info and interpret meaning based on previous experiences, gist- basic meaning or context of info you"re given, ex. Battlefield: serotonin- mood, aggression, sleep, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) treat depression (prozac, norepinephrine-arousal, mood, and hunger, increase ne, boosting mood and reducing hunger, flight or fight response, antagonist-blocks a receptor, agonist-activates a receptor (ex. Mental representations: analogical - representation that shares some physical features with the original object (ex. picture of a dog, symbolic - abstract representation with no shared physical features (ex. letters dog ) Fast & frugal decisions: heuristics quick and easy, mental shortcuts for solving a problem (tversky & Kahneman: thin slicing when experts can make accurate snap decisions based on little information, john gottman and married couples 90% accuracy after 15 min. clip.
