sensation
The minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time.
what is absolute threshold
What are the 4 factors that can influence perception?
beliefs, values, culture, experience and expectations.
What is change in behavior or knowledge based on experience?
What characteristics does one have to show intelligence?
capacity to learn, reason, problem solve, and adapt to new situations.
What is memory?
Memory is an information processing system.
The failure to notice something that is completely visible because the person was actively attending to something else and did not pay attention to other things.
What is inattentional blindness?
What is the path of light through the eye to the brain?
CORNEA—> PUPIL—>LENS—>RETINA(fovea)—>OPTIC NERVE—> OPTIC CHIASM—> OCCIPITAL LOBE
Experiments that Ivan Pavlov known for conducting on his dogs
what is classical conditioning
How does one measure intelligence and who developed the first test?
Intelligence quotient and Alfred Binet
What are the three basic functions of memory?
Encoding, Storage, and retrieval.
an X shaped structure that sits below our cerebral cortex at the front of the brain. Here is where the information from the right visual field is sent to the left side of the brain and vice versa.
What is the optic chiasm?
This theory asserts that different portions of the basilar membrane in the ear are sensitive to sounds of different frequencies. More specifically, the base of the basilar membrane responds best to high frequencies and the tip of the basilar membrane responds best to low frequencies.
what is the "place theory of pitch perception"?
What is a decrease in a conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the conditioned stimulus?
what is Extinction
What is the difference between dysgraphia and dyscalculia?
dysgraphia- difficulty of written expression and handwriting
VS
dyscalculia- trouble understanding and performing math operations.
What neurotransmitters are involved with the process of memory?
The neurotransmitters that are involved with the process of memory are epinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, and acetylcholine.
Where does transduction occur in our auditory senses?
the cochlea, which is a fluid filled, snail shaped structure that contains the sensory receptor cells (hair cells) of the auditory system.
What are top-down and bottom up processing?
Bottom-up processing refers to sensory information from a stimulus in the environment driving a process, like hearing birds singing while walking to class. Top-down processing refers to knowledge and expectancy driving a process, like if we lose our keys and look all around the house for small, metal, objects that tend to make a noise when moved.
What is a learning that occurs but is not observable in behavior until there is a reason to demonstrate it?
what is Latent Learning
What was revealed during the Larry P vs Riles case?
IQ test were culturally biased AGAINST African Americans students.
What is amnesia and how many types of amnesia are there?
Amnesia is the loss of long term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma. There are two types of amnesia: Anterograde Amnesia and Retrograde amnesia.
The conversion from sensory stimulus energy to action potential.
What is transduction?
What is Gestalt perception?
Theorized by Wertheimer, Kohler, and Koffka, it is the belief that we interpret objects as a whole rather than the individual parts that make up the whole
A person with an IQ score of 70 or below and adaptive difficulties is diagnosed with?
Intellectual disability
A person with an IQ score of 70 or below and adaptive difficulties is diagnosed with?
Intellectual disability
What are the seven sins of memory?
Transience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.