PSY 319: Cognitive

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Slides

1. Content Pyramid and Core Themes
2. The Brain: Principles and Evidence
3. The Brain: The Machinery

Key Terms

• Mental Representation
• Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
• Limited Capacity
• Automatic to Controlled Processing
• neuroscience
• neuroimaging
• localization
• lateralization
• neuroplasticity
• neurons
• synapse
• neural pathway
• cerebral cortex
• frontal lobe
• parietal lobe
• temporal lobe
• occipital lobe
• hippocampus
• amygdala
• thalamus
• hypothalamus
• corpus callosum

Flashcards

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