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Bio - History of the brain/methods of studying it
What are all of the people in nee...,
When was aristotle around what we...,
When was descartes around what we...
14  cards
Lecture 2 - Neurons and action potential
What is the way nerves communicat...,
How do sensory and motor neurones...,
What are the components of a neur...
36  cards
Block 1 - Synapses
What are the 3 factors that deter...,
When the mv go over 0 what is thi...,
Define depolarisation and depolar...
27  cards
Block 1 - Nervous system
Draw out the structure of the ner...,
Describe the somatic nervous syst...,
Describe the autonomic nervous sy...
42  cards
Block 1 - Senses
What is the difference between se...,
What type of sensation is somatos...,
What are the 3 main sensory syste...
32  cards
Block 1- Ear
What type of sensation is hearing 1,
What actually is a sound 2,
What type of waves are sound waves 3
39  cards
Block 1- Sleep
What are the two types of motivat...,
What is a biorhythm 2,
How do we categorise biorhythms 3
36  cards
Block 2 - Sex
What are the two competing views ...,
What is a genotype 2,
How many chromosomes does each ce...
22  cards
Block 1- Emotion
0  cards
Block 2- Basics of vision - The eye
-Eye anatomy -Visible light as the basis of vision -The 1st transformation of the visual process: From light to retinal object images -How objects are put into focus (accommodation) -The 2nd transformation of the visual process: Transduction from a retinal images to electrical signals -How different photo receptors shape vision in different ways
60  cards
Block 2 - Basics of vision - The brain
What does the input from then pho...,
Explain what are receptive fields...,
What does the structure of a gang...
41  cards
Block 2 - The psychology of visual perception
What is the difference between se...,
What are the 3 bottom up accounts...,
What are the 3 different psychoph...
48  cards
Block 2 - When perception goes wrong ( Top-up down)
What is wrong with the bottom up ...,
Describe what top down theories t...,
Name some examples of erroneous p...
47  cards
Block 2- Colour percepetion
What does colour do for us 1,
How do we actually perceive light...,
Do these wavelmghts actually have...
38  cards
Block 2- Depth and size perception
What type of features are depth a...,
What is the problem with depth pe...,
What are the different types of d...
32  cards
Block 2- Motion perception
Why is motion perception important 1,
What are the two different ways t...,
What is the difference between re...
26  cards
Block 2- Object recognition
What is the problem with object r...,
What is the solution to the probl...,
How does the matching process work 3
28  cards
Block 3- Historical background
What are the key psychologists th...,
What are 3 overall reasons to stu...,
Who did comparative psychology st...
26  cards
Animal learning and cognition 2- Skinner and pavlov
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1  cards
Animal learning and cognition -3
0  cards
Animal learning and cognition - Animal memory
How would we define memory 1,
Wha 2,
Blank 3
3  cards

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