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Techniques for studying the brain

  • MRI

  • MAGUIRE (taxi drivers)

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Localization

  • Localization proposes that the brain is divided into specialized regions, each with unique functions. 

  • Maguire (Taxi driver)

  • OR Milner (HM)

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Neuroplasticity

  • The brain’s ability to alter its own structure

  • Maguire (taxi drivers)

  • OR Draganski (jugglers)

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Neurotransmitters

  • chemical messengers that facilitate communication between neurons

  • Acetylcholine: most common neurotransmitter. Receptor sites found in hippocampus. Memory consolidation from STM to LTM

  • Scopolamine: antagonist. Inhibits Acetylcholine.

  • Troster & Beatty (Scopolamine. Free recall, new map, famous face test)

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Ethics in studying the brain

  • Milner (HM)

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Antagonist

  • Prevents neurotransmitters from having an effect on behaviour

  • Scopolamine: antagonist that inhibits the binding of acetylcholine to receptors. May have side effects of: forgetfulness, halluscinations, etc.

  • Troster & Beatty (Free recall, new map, remote memory battery)

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Agonist

  • Binds to receptors and causes a reaction. Endogenous - originates in body. Exogenous- originates outside body

  • Acetylcholine: endegenous agonist and neurotransmitter. Plays a role in memory consolidation from STM to LTM. Most common neurotransmitter. Receptor sites are located in hippocampus.

  • Troster & Beatty (free recall, new map test, remote battery test)

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Formation of neural networks

  • Neuroplasticity: the brains ability to alter its own structure following changes in the environment or in the body

  • Long term potentiation: enables learning and making LTM. New connections between existing neurons. Strengthening of synapses.

  • Neural network: interconnected groups of neurons that transmit signals, forming pathways that enable various mental processes and behaviors

  • Maguire (taxi drivers)

  • OR Draganski (jugglers)

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Neural Pruning

  • Neuroplasticity: the brains ability to alter its own structure following changes in the environment or in the body

  • Neural pruning: Lack of long term potentiation of neurons may caise pruning → synaptic connections are eliminated as they are not needed anymore

  • Draganski (jugglers)

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Excitatory and inhibitory synapses

  • Excitatory synapse: release of neurotransmitter increases the likelihood of an action potential firing. E.g. acetylcholine

  • Troster & Beatty (free recall, new map, celebrity faces)

  • Inhibitory synapse: when the release of a neurotransmitter decreases the likelihood of a neuron firing an action potential. Many neurotransmitters are inhibitory to some receptir sites while excitatory to others. E.g. GABA

  • GABA: inhibits neural activity in the hippocampus and frontal lobe, increasing cognitive load and improving memory.

  • Prevot (memory impaired mice, y shaped maze)

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Hormones on behaviour

  • Testosterone: male sex hormone, secreted in testes.

  • Ronay von Hippel (testosterone on risk-taking)

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Pheromones

  • MHC: immune system gene, co-dominant (inherited from both parents), ideally would be highly different between parents

  • Wedekind (t-shirts)

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Genes on behaviour

  • Adoption studies: research studies that compare an adopted person's behavior to both their biological and adoptive parents' behavior.

  • Sorensen et al (obesity and genetics → adoption study)

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Evolutionary arguments for behaviour

  • Natural selection: those individuals best suited to the characteristics of the immediate environment are more likely to survive, mate, have offspring, and rear their offspring to reach reproductive age.

  • Sexual selection: a type of natural selection where individuals with certain traits have greater success in obtaining mates, leading to the evolution of traits that enhance mating success

  • Wedekind (MHC, t-shirts)

  • OR Buss (ideal partner traits around the world)

  • OR Ronay von Hippel (Testosterone and risk-taking)

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Ethics in genetic research

  • Any study

  • Bailey & Pillard (gay twin study)

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Multi-store model

Input →sensory memory→(attention)→ STM (rehearsal) ←→(transfer/retrieval)LTM

Made by Atkinson and Shiffrin

  • Milner (HM)

  • Glanzer & Cunitz (recency & primacy effect)

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Working memory model

  • Central executive, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer, phonological loop, LTM

  • Made by Baddeley and Hitch

  • Baddeley & Hitch (dual task, articulatiry supression)

  • OR Baddeley, Thompson and Buchanan (Word length effect)

  • OR Shallice & Warrington (KF)

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Schema theory

  • Mental representation used to organise knowledge

  • Assimilation: integrating new information into existing schemas

  • Accomodation: altering existing schemas or creating new ones in response to new information

  • Bartlett (War on the Ghosts)

  • OR Loftus & Palmer (car speed)

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Thinking and Decision making

  • Dual Processing model; System 1: Fast, automatic, draws on prior experience System 2: slow, deliberate, analytical

  • Tversky & Kahneman (anchoring bias in math)

  • Englich & Mussweiler (anchoring bias in prison sentence)

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Reconstructive memory

  • Theory of memory that proposes memories are not stored as replicas of past events but instead reconstructed by the mind each time they are recalled

  • Bartlett (War on the ghosts)

  • Loftus & Palmer (car crash)

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Biases in thinking and decision making

Heuristic: a mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgements quickly

Anchoring bias: relying too heavily on the first piece of information

  • Englich & Mussweiler (prison sentence)

  • Tversky & Kahneman (math problem)

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Emotion on cognition

Flashbulb memory: a vivid and detailed memory of a surprising and emotionally arousing event

Reconstructive memory: Theory of memory that proposes memories are not stored as replicas of past events but instead reconstructed by the mind each time they are recalled

  • Brown and Kulik (public figure deaths, MLK, Kennedy)

  • Neisser & Harsch (September 11th distortion longitudinal questionnaire)

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Social Identity Theory

  • Social categorization, social identification, in-group/out-group

  • Tajfel (Klee and Kadinsky)

  • Hillard & Liben (Children’s gender salience in classroom)

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Social Cognitive Theory

  • Attention, retention, motivation and potential, self-efficacy

  • Bandura et al (bobo doll)

  • Charlton et al (St. Helens TV agression)

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Formation of stereotypes

  • Preconceived notion about a group of people

  • Illusory correlation: a belief that there is a relationship between 2 unrelated events

  • Confirmation bias: when people tend to seek or remember information that supports their current beliefs

  • Cognitive misers

  • Hamilton & Gifford (A & B group statements)

  • Hillard & Liben (Children gender salience in classroom)

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Stereotypes on behaviour

Stereotype threat: when worrying about conforming to a stereotype leads to underperformance

  • Steele & Aronson (Black knowledge vs problem solving “test”)

  • Martin & Halverson (gender stereotype photos children)

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Culture on behaviour

  • Individualism vs. Collectivism

  • Norasakkunikit & Uchida (hikikomori)

  • Ogihara & Uchida (work women relationships)

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Cultural dimensions on behaviour

Cultural dimension: trends of a behaviour in a given culture

  • Norasakkunikit & Uchida (hikikomori values)

  • Ogihara & Uchida (women in work relationships)

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Enculturation

  • Process of learning and adopting the schemas of your culture

  • Martin & Halverson (children gender-congruent photos on memory)

  • Odden & Rochat (Observational learning in Samoan village)

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Acculturation

  • Process by which someone comes into contact with another culture and starts to adopt the norms and behaviours of that culture

  • Acculturative stress, marginalization, separation, integration, assimilation

  • Ishizawa & Jones (asian migrant obesity)

  • Da Costa, Dias & Martins (natives vs. Migrant obesity)

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Biological explanation for obesity

  • Sorensen (adoption study obesity)

  • Dutch Hunger Winter

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Cognitive explanations for obesity

  • Stahre et al (CBT)

  • Jokela (Big 5 personality)

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Sociocultural explanations for obesity

  • Ishizawa & Jones (Asian 2nd and 3rd gen. Obesity)

  • Curtis (Pacific Islanders)

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Prevalence rates of obesity

  • The percentage of the population that has a disease

  • Incidence: development of cases over a span of time

  • Joseph (fast food in provate school boys)

  • Martinez-Gonzales (sedantary lifestyle in EU)

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Health beliefs

  • Weinstein (students risk perception)

  • Lewis et al (moderate vs. Severe obese beliefs)

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Biological approach to personal relationships

MHC: gene that codes for immune system, co-dominant (inherited from both parents), ideally would be highly different between parents

Sexual selection: a type of natural selection where individuals with certain traits are more likely to mate, leading to evolution of these traits

  • Wedekind (t-shirts, MHC)

  • Buss (33 countries, preferred traits)

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Cognitive approach to relationships

  • Halo-effect: generalise about a person based on one trait

  • Attachment styles: secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-resistant

  • Dion et al (halo effect, attractive, personality)

  • Hazan & Shaver (infant attachment on romantic relationships)

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Sociocultural approach to relationships

Mere-exposure effect: tendency to prefer things that one has been repeatedly exposed to

Cultural dimensions: trends of behaviour in a given culture

  • Moreland & Beach (student mere-exposure)

  • Ye et al (dating ads in China vs USA)

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Communication & why relationships end

  • Process through which you send and receive messages with others

  • Attributional theory: people understand the behaviours of others and themselves by attributing behaviours to causes:

  • dispositional: Inner cause e.g. personality

  • Situational: outer cause e.g. an event

  • Positive attribution style: assume best intent: + behaviour → dispositional, - behaviour → situational

  • Relationship enhancing/distress maintaining patterns

  • Four horsemen: Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling

  • Bradbury & Fincham (videotaped conflict in marriage)

  • Gottman (couples over 20 years, interviews & observations)

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Cooperation and competition

Cooperation: working together towards a common goal

Competition: social situation where individuals believe their goals are negatively related to others’ goals

  • Kerr (pumping air, free rider & sucker effects)

  • Sherif (Robbers Cave)

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Prejudice and discrimination

Prejudice: an attitude thay is favourable or unfavourable towards any member in the category of question

Discrimination: treating someone based on group membership rather than individual merit

Availability heuristic: making a decision based on the answer that most easily comes to mind

  • Fein & Spencer (gay actor)

  • Hart (biological, fMRI, racial in-group and out-group)

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Origins of conflict and conflict resolution

Realistic conflict theory: cinflict arises due to conflicting goals and scarce resources. Conflict can be diminished through superordinate goals

Contact hypothesis: conflict can be resolved by getting to know more about the other group

  • Sherif (Robbers Cave, group formation, inter-group conflict, conflict reduction)

  • Novotny & Polansky (Czech and Slovak attitudes on Muslims)

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