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Chapter 2
Heredity and Behavior
The Nature vs. Nurture Debate |
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Debate about whether genetic or environmental factors contribute to human development.
Nature-Biological(what you were born with)
Nurture- How you were shaped by the environment
Neither nature or nurture, |
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| Used to identify the degree of risk of relatives developing mental disorders that other family members suffer from. Do not express outside factors such as family, environment, or culture |
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| comparing identical twins to fraternal twins, or comparing twins separated in earlier life and raised in different environments |
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Chapter 2
Adoption Studies |
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| A method of separating effect of nature vs nurture compare characteristics of adopted children with individuals in biological adoptive families |
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Chapter 3
What is sensory transduction? and why is it important? |
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conversion of a sensory stimulus from one form to another.
It is important because it helps in processing incoming information |
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Chapter 3
How and where it takes place in the Auditory System |
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Takes place in the inner ear
Sound vibrations are transduced into electrical energy by hair cells in inner ear, Sound vibrations from an object cause vibrations in air molecules, which in turn, vibrate your ear drum. The movement of the eardrum causes the bones of your middle ear (the ossicles) to vibrate. These vibrations then pass in to the cochlea, the organ of hearing. Within the cochlea, the hair cells on the sensory epithelium of the organ of Corti bend and cause movement of the basilar membrane. The membrane undulates in different sized waves according to the frequency of the sound. Hair cells are then able to convert this movement (mechanical energy) into electrical signals (action potentials) which travel along auditory nerves to hearing centres in the brain |
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Chapter 3
How and where it takes place in the Visual System |
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Chapter 3
Examples of Auditory and Visual Disorders |
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Chapter 4
Classical Conditioning |
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| form of behavioral learning a neutral stimulus acquires power to elicit same innate reflex prodced by another stimulus |
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Chapter 4
Before, During, After Classic Conditioning |
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Chapter 4
Unconditioned stimulus |
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| stimulus that elicts an unconditional response |
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Chapter 4
Unconditioned Response |
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| response elict by an unconditional stimulus without prior learning |
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Chapter 4
Conditioned Stimulus |
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| previously neutral stimulus comes to elict conditioned response |
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Chapter 4
Conditioned Response |
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| response elicted by a previously neutral stimulus has become associated with unconditioned response |
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Chapter 4
Stimulus Discrimination |
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| learning to respond ro a particular stimulus but not to stimuli that are similar |
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Chapter 4
Stimulus Generalization |
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| extension of learned repsonse to stimuli that are similar to conditioned response |
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| weakening of conditioned response in absence of unconditioned stimulus |
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Chapter 5
Iconic sensory memory |
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| visual stimuli that occur in forms of pictures, stored for shorter periods of times |
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Chapter 5
Echoic sensory memory |
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| memory for sound, brief sensory memory of some auditory stimuli, stored slightly longer than iconic memory |
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Chapter 5
Short term memory |
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| what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
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Chapter 5
Long Term Memory |
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| general store of remembered information |
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