Intro to Cognitive Psychology
How we acquire, store, transform, and use knowledge
What is Cognition?
Using previous knowledge to gather and interpret stimuli registered by our senses
What is perception?
Portion of cerebral cortex that processes visual stimuli
What is primary visual cortex?
Hermann Ebbinghaus and Mary Whiton Calkins
Who are the two early memory researchers?
The visual system, Organization in Visual perception, and Theories of Visual Object Recognition.
What are the three topics in Visual Object Recognition?
Gestalt Psychology
What is the approach that emphasizes that humans have the basic tendency to organize what they see
Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Cognitive Neuroscience
What are the two kinds of Cognitive Neuroscience
The visual system has assistance from other components
Why are we so skilled at object recognition?
reversal of the figure and ground; the ground becomes the figure.
What is Ambiguous figure-ground relationship?
Brain Lesions, Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), and Event-Related Potential Technique
What are the four Neuroscience Techniques
Large capacity storage system that records information from each of the senses
What is Sensory Memory?
You can still recognize letters of various shape
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Perception requires flexibility than simply matching against a pattern stored in memory
Name one weakness of the Template Approach
( either 2 answers work )
Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) and The Neural-Network Approach
What are the two other names for Connectionist Approach?
Preserves an image of a visual stimulus for a brief period after the stimulus has disappeared.
What is Iconic (or Visual Sensory) Memory?
Proposes that we store a small number of views of three-dimensional objects, rather than just one view
What is the purpose of Viewer-Centered Approac?