Language
Learning
Memory
Vision
Potpourri
100

It's theorized that children require language exposure during this time.

What is critical period?

100

This type of learning uses associations and repetitions.

What is classical conditioning?

100

Patient H.M. suffered from this type of amnesia.

What is anterograde?

100

This phenomena refers to when a difference in a person's visual field is not perceived.

What is change blindness?

100

This describes the set of neurons that encode a representation.

What is population code?

200

What area is related to language comprehension?

What is Wernicke's Area?

200

Use these nouns to create an example of negative punishment: child, candy, tantrum

What is To reduce tantrum behavior, Candy was taken away from the child?

200

What brain area is most commonly associated with memory?

What is the hippocampus?

200

These photoreceptors can detect color.

What are cones?

200

This ailment involves difficulty repeating just-heard words.

What is conduction(/ive) aphasia?

300

This ailment is a deficit in reading ability.

What is alexia?

300

This person put rats in mazes and discovered they latently learned the layout.

Who is Edward Tolman?

300

This type of memory deals with non-subjective factual information.

What is declarative?

300

This pathway process information such as shape, size and category.

What is the ventral visual pathway? ("Who/What")

300

In the eye-tracking study involving choosing between candy and candle, this measure was used to determine cognitive load or uncertainty.

What is curvature of eye-movement trajectory?

400

Give the formal names (in order) for these concepts:

a) Grammar

b) Meaning

c) Word

d) Smallest distinct unit of sound

What is syntax, semantics, lexeme, and phoneme?

400

This describes when a previously extinct/extinguished behavior reappears.

What is spontaneous recovery?

400

Iconic and echoic memory operate on this timescale/order of magnitude.

What is milliseconds
400

When cells are fatigued this illusion may be produced.

What is an aftereffect or afterimage?

400

In an energy landscape, this stable point is flirtatious.

What is an attractor basin.

500

The theory that individuals who use different languages think differently; An inextricable relationship between language and thought.

What is linguistic relativity? / What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

500

In an ANN, this process enables learning by sending feedback from the output and adjusting weights and connections in the reverse sequence.

What is back-propagation?

500

This describes a strengthening of synaptic connections through repetition.

What is long-term potentiation?

500

This component of Gibson's Ecological Theory does not require minds to do complex mental reconstruction.

What is Direct Perception?

500

The duck-rabbit image is a common example.

What are bistable figures?

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