Pattern of interaction among neurons in the visual system in which activity in one neuron inhibits adjacent neurons' responses.
What is lateral inhibition
100
Model of pattern recognition involving a network of detectors and having feature detectors as the network's starting point.
What is feature net
100
A decline in the response to a stimulus once the stimulus has become familiar.
What is habituation
100
A type of retrieval that requires you to judge whether you have encountered a stimulus previously.
What is recognition
100
The vast memory depository containing all of an individual's knowledge and beliefs, including those that are not in use at any given time.
What is long-term memory
200
Theory that perceiving or not perceiving a stimulus is actually a judgment about whether a momentary sensory experience is due to background noise alone or to the background noise plus a signal.
What is signal-detection theory
200
A theoretical approach that emphasizes the role of organized wholes in perception and other psychological processes.
What is Gestalt psychology
200
A stimulus that reliably triggers a particular response without prior training.
What is an unconditioned stimulus (US)
200
A term describing the status of thoughts in memory that are currently activated.
What is working memory
200
A result showing that an animal learns nothing about a stimulus if the stimulus provides no new information.
What is blocking effect.
300
The law used to calculate the amount of change needed in a stimulus in order to achieve the just-noticeable difference.
What is Weber's Law
300
Ganglion cells that, because of their sensitivity to brightness changes, are particularly suited to perceiving motion and depth.
What are mango cells
300
A response elicited by the initially neutral stimulus (CS), after it has been paired repeatedly with an unconditioned stimulus (US).
What is a conditioned response (CR)
300
In free recall, the tendency to recall the first and last items on the list more readily than those in the middle.
What are primacy and recency effects
300
Process through which a detector or portion of the nervous system is prepared for an upcoming input, making it easier for the participant to recognize that input.
What is priming
400
The observation that the strength of a sensation is proportional to the logarithm of physical stimulus intensity.
What is Fechner's Law
400
The fact that we perceive the constant properties of objects in the world (size, shape, etc.) even though the sensory information we receive about these attributes changes whenever our viewing circumstances change.
What is perceptual constancy
400
Form of learning where after classical conditioning, the CS is paired with a new, neutral stimulus until the new stimulus also elicits the conditioned response.
What is second-order conditioning
400
An approach to memorization that involved focusing on the meaning of the stimulus.
What is deep processing
400
A way of improving retrieval by re-creating the state of mind that accompanied the initial learning.
What is context reinstatement
500
Argued that stimulation of different nerves is what causes different sensory experiences.
Who is Johannes Muller
500
The unconscious calculation of distance and perceived size when viewing a distant object in order to determine it's actual size.
What is unconscious inference
500
The weakening of a learned response that is produced if a conditioned stimulus (CS) is now repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus (US).
What is extinction
500
The condition in which one remains on the verge of retrieving a word or name but continues to be unsuccessful.
What is tip-of-the-tongue effect (TOT)
500
Neurons in the retina or brain that respond to specific attributes of the stimulus, such as movement, orientation, and so on.