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Psych Outline- Learning

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AP Psychology Outline Chapter 6: Learning Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Learning ? Any relatively durable Change in Behavior or Knowledge that is due to Experience. Conditioning ? Learning Associations between events that occur in an Organisms Environment. Classical Conditioning Phobias ? Irrational Fears of specific Objects or Situations. Classical Conditioning ? Type of Learning in which a Stimulus acquires the Capacity to Evoke a Response that was originally evoked by another Stimulus. Ivan Pavlov Pavlovian Conditioning Pavlov?s Dogs ? Prior to Dogs being Fed Meat, a Clicking Noise Occurred. Dogs started Salivating After awhile when the Click Occurred, prior to the Meat being given.

Psychology Themes and Variations Wayne Weiten 8E Ch 8

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Psychology Ch. 8 + Problem Solving In chapter 8 of the text it emphasizes on problem solving The barriers to solving problems Approaches to solving problems Culture and problem solving Types of problem solving + Decision making Basic strategies Common heuristics and flaws + Measuring intelligence History of IQ test Alfred Binet IQ tests are valuable but not always true + Heredity and Environment affects on intelligence Identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins. Intelligence is at least partly inherited Intelligence is clearly shaped by both +
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Psychology Themes and Variations Wayne Weiten 8E Ch 8

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Psychology Ch. 8 + Problem Solving In chapter 8 of the text it emphasizes on problem solving The barriers to solving problems Approaches to solving problems Culture and problem solving Types of problem solving + Decision making Basic strategies Common heuristics and flaws + Measuring intelligence History of IQ test Alfred Binet IQ tests are valuable but not always true + Heredity and Environment affects on intelligence Identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins. Intelligence is at least partly inherited Intelligence is clearly shaped by both +
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Psychology Themes and Variations Wayne Weiten 8E

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Psychology Ch. 7 + Summary It talks about encoding, storage and retrieval. Under storage it talks about sensory, short term, and long term memory. Organization in the long term memory includes schemas, semantic and connectionist networks. This chapter also talks about forgeting. Another major point it physiology ?of memory and memory systems +
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psyc notes chapter 4

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SENSATION is the stimulation of sense organs -Sensation involves the absorption of energy, such as light or sound waves, by sensory organs, such as the eyes and ears PERCEPTION is the selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input -Perception involves organizing and translating sensory input into something meaningful Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that travels as a wave, moving, natural enough, at the speed of light Amplitude: height of the light wave. Affects perception of brightness Wavelength: distance between peaks. Affects perception of color Purity: How varied the mix is. Influences perception of the saturation, or richness, of colors. Saturation refers to the relative amount of whiteness in a color. As whiteness declines, saturation increases -

AP Psych Myers 6th edition Chapter 2

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BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR THE HUMAN BRAIN The influence of biology (sometimes called the neuroscience or biopsychological perspective) is growing. Some researchers predict that someday psychology will be a specialty within the field of biology. An understanding of the biological principles relevant to psychology is needed to understand current psychological thinking. The human brain consists of three major divisions; hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain Major Division Subdivision Structures Prosencephalon?(Forebrain) Telencephalon Neocortex; Basal Ganglia; Amygdala; Hippocampus; Lateral Ventricles Diencephalon Thalamus; Hypothalamus; Epithalamus; Third Ventricle Mesencephalon?(Midbrain) Mesencephalon Tectum; Tegmentum; Cerebral Aqueduct

AP Psych Myers 6th edition Chapter 1

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HISTORY AND METHODS Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes A Brief History- Wilhelm Wundt- founded first research lab in 1879- birth of scientific psychology Structuralism ? studied consciousness- introspection, examining one?s mind and what one is thinking and feeling. Edward Titchener Functionalism- look at function not structure, stress adaptation to the environment. William James (Principles of Psychology in 1890) John Dewey Gestalt psychology ? focus on the totality of perception, Max Wertheimer Psychoanalysis- Sigmund Freud- focus on role of unconscious conflicts, the process of raising these conflicts to a level of awareness is the goal of psychoanalysis Current Views of Psychology- Neurobiology- Behavior viewed in terms of biological responses

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AP Psychology Outline Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception ? Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions ? Sensation ? The Stimulation of Sense Organs. Perception ? the Selection, Organization, and interpretation of Sensory Input. Psychophysics: Basic Concepts & Issues Psychophysics - Study of how physical stimuli are translated into Psychological Experience. Gustav Fechner ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? i.????? Psychophysics Psychologists in 1860?s at University of Leipzig. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ii.????? Wilhelm Wundt based lots of research upon Fechner.

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1 AP Psych Review 1. ablation: removal or destruction of brain tissue in a surgical procedure 2. absolute threshold: intensity level at which one can detect a stimulus 50% of the time 3. accommodation: the process of modifying a schema to account for new information; the process of the eyes lens changing shape in order to focus on distant or near objects 4. acetylcholine (ACh): a neurotransmitter involved in learning, memory and muscle movement 5. achievement test: a test that assesses what one has learned 6. acquisition: a process in classical conditioning by which the association of a neutral stimulus with a natural stimulus is first established 7. action potential: the electrical process by which information is transmitted the length of an axon

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