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Block 1 - Biological psychology - Lecture 1 - Why and how to study the brain
What are aristotle s arguments fo...,
What are aristotle s arguments fo...,
What did descartes say
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Lecture 2 - The Neuron and the action potential
What is the neuronal membrane,
What controls the movement of ions,
What controls the movement of ions
12
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Lecture 3 - The synapse
What 3 factors determine the elec...,
Why do ions move across the cell ...,
When do the ions move
25
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Lecture 4 - The nervous system
The nervous system,
What are the brains surface features,
Cerebral cortex
9
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Lecture 5 - The senses
What are the 5 senses,
What is sensation,
What is perception
17
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Lecture 6 - Hearing
What is sound,
What are the 2 basic features of ...,
What is frequency
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Lecture 7 - Sleep
What is a cicannuol rhythms,
What are circadian rhythms,
What are ultradian rhythms
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Lecture 8 - Sex and the brain
What is genotype,
How many chromosomes does an indi...,
Sex hormones
18
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Lecture 9 - Emotion
What are emotions,
What areas are involved in emotio...,
Amygdala and emotional behaviour
13
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Block 2 - Visual perception - Lecture 1 - The eye
Human eye anatomy,
What is muscular degeneration,
What is light
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Lecture 2 - The brain
Ganglion cells,
What is the receptive field of a ...,
What is the excitatory area of a ...
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Lecture 3 - The Psychology of visual perception
What is sensation,
What is perception,
What is structuralism
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Lecture 4 - When perception goes wrong
Fraser spiral illusion,
Jastrow illusion,
Irradiation illusion
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Lecture 5 - colour perception
What does colour do for us,
What is colour the visible light ...,
What is the perceived colour of s...
18
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Lecture 6 - Depth/ size perception
What are depth cues,
Monocular cues pictorial cues,
Monocular cues motion based cues
13
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Lecture 7 - Motion perception
What does motion perception do fo...,
What are the ways to perceive motion,
Physiological evidence of real mo...
12
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Lecture 8 - Object perception + recognition
What is recognition,
What is the problem,
Solution
18
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Block 3 - Animal learning and cognition - Lecture 1 - Historical background
Darwin natural selection,
Romanes animal intelligence,
Conway lloyd morgan
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Lecture 2 - Skinner and Pavlov
Skinner,
Operant conditioning instrumental...,
Colwill and rescorla
11
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Lecture 3 - Animal intelligence
What is aristotle s great chain o...,
Romanes,
Brain size and intelligence
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Lecture 4 - Animal memory
Capacity of animal memory vaughan...,
What is periodic time,
Roberts 1965
25
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Lecture 5 - Intro to associative learning
Holland 1990,
Konorski,
Appetitive unconditioned stimulus s
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Lecture 6 - Associative learning 2
Compensatory cr s and drug tolerance,
Siegel 2005,
Newlin 1986 drug tolerance in humans
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Lecture 7 - Learning in humans
Why do people have a craving for ...,
What are the 3 ways to stop smoking,
Example of aversion therapy raymo...
13
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Lecture 8 - Problem solving
Definition of reasoning,
What are the 2 types of reasoning,
Navigation
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Lecture 9 - Language and communication
What is communication,
Honey bee von frisch 1974,
Vervet monkey seyfarth and cheney
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Block 4 - Cognitive psychology - Lecture 1 - Intro
What is gestalt psychology,
Wundt,
Functionalism james
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Lecture 2 - Selective attention
What is attention william james,
Is attention a module,
Posner and peterson 3 component m...
18
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Lecture 3 - Early and late selection
When does selection occur,
What is the capacity of the atten...,
Evidence for early selection
9
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Lecture 4 - Resource theories of attention
The central executive,
Single resource theories,
Multiple resource theories
13
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Lecture 5 - Mental imagery
What is mental imagery,
What does pictorial mean,
Functional equivalence kosslyn de...
14
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Lecture 6 - Problem solving
Definition of problem duncker 1945,
What are the 3 characteristics of...,
What is a well defined problem
21
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Lecture 7 - Creativity
What is creativity,
How do we judge creativity,
Introspective accounts
17
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Lecture 8 - Decision making
What is decision making,
What are the types of decisions,
Single attribute risky decisions
16
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