Parts of the Brain
What connects the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere together?
Corpus Callosum
What is the psychological process that uses existing knowledge/expectations to interpret new information?
Top-Down Processing
What is thinking about thinking called?
Metacognition
What is learning that persists over time through encoding, storage and retrieval of information
Memory
The part of the brain that is responsible for fear and aggression
The amygdala
What do we use to estimate an objects' size and distance from 2D information?
Depth perception
What are mental groupings of similar objects, ideas, events or people
Concepts
What are the three types of memory storage?
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
What part of the brain converts short-term memory to long-term memory?
Hippocampus
Which cues do we use to judge depth/distance using both eyes?
Binocular Cues
What is the cognitive framework that helps people organize and interpret new experiences?
Schemas
What kind of memories is involved with the retention of facts/experiences that one can consciously know?
Explicit memory
What part of the brain is responsible for speech comprehension?
Wernicke's area
What are the four types of grouping?
Proximity
Similarity
Closure
Figure & Ground
What is the mistaken belief that a random event is more likely to occur because a series of opposite events has happened?
Gambler's Fallacy
What kind of memory involves retention of learned skills or classical conditions associations independent of conscious recollection?
Implicit Memory
What part of the brain controls voluntary movement, eye movement, the sleep/wake cycle, arousal/alertness and motivation?
Reticular Activating System (RAS)
Which depth cues are available to each eye separately? They give the illusion of depth on a flat, 2D service.
Monocular Cues
What is it called when we make decisions according to prior expectations or prototypes?
Representative heuristics?
Structural (most shallow)
Phonemic (shallow)
Semantic (deep)