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Longitutinal Study

Follow one group for long time

Cross sectional study

Compares different groups to form a bigger picture

Weirnicke’s Area

Language UNDERSTANDING

Temporal Lobe

Hearing

Frontal Lobe

Movement, judgement, decsion making, personalities

Parietal lobe

Touch, pressure, pain, temp, spatial awareness

Occipital lobe

Sight

Thalamus

Sensory Relay -Smell

Brocas Area

Speech production

Medulla

Vital functions

Amydala

Emotions, mainly fear

Reticular formation

Links higher thinking of front to survival needs of the back

Hippocampus

Long term explicit memory+establishing long term mem

Hypothalamus

Food, Fighting, Fleeing, and Fucking

Pons

Sleep

Cerebellum

Long term Implicit+ balance

Somatosensory cortex

integrates sensory info

Humansitic therapy

Goal oriented

Cognative Behavioral Therapy

Chaning patterns of thought and behavior

Levels of Processing theory

Depth of Processing (Iconic, Echoic, and Semantic) affects how well you remember the thing

Borderline personality disorder

Unstable mood and behavior changes

Elaborative encoding

Relating old information to new to make it more meaningful

Serotonin

Mood and sleep and apetite

Dopamine

Motivation and reward processing

Primary Reinforcement

Targets a biological need

Law of Effect (Operant Conditioning)

Good outcomes=more behavior

Anchoring Bias

You are more likely to believe the first thing you see

Avoidant personality Disorder

Feeling of inadquecy and stuff like that

Halo Effect

One good impression overshadows all future bad things about person

MRI vs CT

Structure, MRI is 3D, CT is 2D

EEG, PET, Leisoning

Function

Both function and Structure scan

FmRI

Place theory

where the sound waves hit

Volley theory

Where sound hit+frequency+bounce off

Frequency theory

Based only on frequency of wave

Cones

Color and Clarity

Rods

Night vision+peripherial

Cognitive appraisal

how you think about a situation

Primary- Good/Bad

Secondary- How am I gonna deal with it

Egocentrism (toddler)

Can’t see from other peoples POV

Egocentrism (adolescent)

Everyones looking at me and judging me

Long term potentiation

Practicing to improve memory

Disociative Disorders

Loss of connection between your internal things like emotion and memory

Shaping=

Operant Conditioning

Pairing=

Classical Conditioning

Social cognitive learning=Modeling=

Observational Learning

Pheripheral route of persusion

More about attractiveness and false credability (think of celebrities)

central route of persausion

More about logic and actual credability (scientist)

Reciproical Determinism

Behaviors, personal factors, and enviorment all shape a person and interact with each other

Conciounousness

Organization

Open mindedness

how open u are to new thngs

extraversion

how social

agreeableness

basically how cooperative

Neuroticsim

prone to mood swings and stress and depression

What happens when mylein sheath declines too rapidly

Multiple scrolsis

What lobe is Taste

Frontal

Arousal theory

You need to be stressed to be motivated, but too much is gonna cook u

Activation synthesis

Dreaming theory, our brains attempt of making sense of random neural activity

Psychoanalytic dream theory

Dreams are about our unconcious desires

Information processing theory

helps us process the days experience and consolidate memory

Contex effect

Person is mopre likely to recall if they are in same external enviorment they learned it

State dependent effect

More likely to recall if person is in the same mental state as they learned it

Mood congruence effect

mood effects recall types, happy mood, happy thoughts

Actor observer bias

Our own behavior as situational, but others as attributes

Self serving bias

Flip dispositional and situational based upon what benefits you.

Steps of operant conditioning

Target behavior, What consquence, How Pos/Neg, When Interval/Ratio/Fixed/Var

Steps of observational learning

Model, Attention, Retention, Repition, Motivation

(MARRM)

What is a macro system?

Cultural beliefs

Whats a meso system

Microsystems together

Exosystem

doesn’t directly interact with you.

Latent Learning

Subconciously learning something but not demonstrating the learning until late.

Id

Primal isntinct

Ego

rules you have for yourself

Superego

Morals