Chapter 5
The way that sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced
What is perception?
A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience
What is learning?
Thinking
What is cognition?
Encode, store, and retrieve information
What is memory?
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness.
What is retrieval?
A point of no receptors where information exits the eye, where we cannot respond.
What is a blind spot?
John B. Watson used the principles of classical conditioning to study this.
What is human emotion?
These concepts are ones that we know by a specific set of characteristics.
What are artificial concepts?
Storage of brief events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is sensory memory?
Texting and driving
What is an event schema?
The lobe where the auditory cortex, in which sound stimuli are processed for perception.
What is the temporal lobe?
We reward successive approximations of a target behavior.
What is shaping?
Focusing on information that confirms your existing beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
Fear and fear memories
What is the amygdala?
Bottom-up processing and top-down processing
What are two types of processes we use for perception?
When you watch the teacher at the front of the room, you are easily able to distinguish her from the white board (or chalk board) behind her.
What is the figure-ground relationship?
In operant conditioning, organisms learn to associate a behavior and its consequences.
What is reinforcement and punishment?
The type of intelligence that involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems.
What is fluid intelligence?
A condition in which a person can remember previously encoded memories but cannot encode new ones.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Children watch and learn from adults around them which can have both prosocial and antisocial consequences.
What is the Bobo doll experiment?
The what and where/how pathway
What are the two visual pathways?
After seeing a television character receive a reward for taking violent action against another character.
What is the social learning theory?
Continuing to try different solutions until the problem is solved.
What is trial and error?
Memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
What are explicit memories?
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