Foundations of Cognitive Psychology
This term refers to mental activities such as perception, memory, and reasoning.
What is cognition?
This researcher created nonsense syllables to study memory scientifically.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
Gestalt psychology emphasizes that we perceive organized patterns rather than individual components.
What is “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”?
The actual object in the environment is known as this type of stimulus.
What is the distal stimulus?
This type of memory briefly preserves a visual image after it disappears.
What is iconic memory?
This approach emphasizes observable behaviors rather than mental processes.
What is behaviorism?
This memory phenomenon refers to better recall of the last items on a list.
What is the recency effect?
This Gestalt concept refers to our tendency to separate objects from their background.
What is figure-ground organization?
The image formed on the retina is called this stimulus.
What is the proximal stimulus?
Object recognition often relies on this property more than color or texture.
What is shape?
This early psychologist founded psychology as a science and emphasized introspection.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This psychologist emphasized that the mind is active and wrote Principles of Psychology.
Who is William James?
This occurs when the figure and ground reverse, causing perceptual confusion.
What is an ambiguous figure-ground relationship?
This brain area, located in the occipital lobe, first processes visual information.
What is the primary visual cortex?
Higher-level cortical regions beyond the primary visual cortex help identify complex objects.
What is the inferotemporal cortex?