What part of the brain is responsible for decision making?
What is frontal lobe
100
What is the inability to recognize faces?
What is prosopagnosia
100
Plato argued that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. This is called ______
What is nativism
100
Goal-driven attention is known as..
What is top-down
100
A situation in which individuals try to attend to only one source of information, while ignoring other stimuli.
What is selective attention
200
What part of the brain is responsible for vision?
What is occipital lobe
200
A phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.
What is The Thatcher Effect
200
A _______ sample best represents the characteristics of a larger population.
What is random
200
What is the capacity of working memory?
What is 7+-2
200
Serious developmental disorder in which one of the major symptoms is the withdrawal of contact from other people.
What is autism
300
Theory of human information processing including perception, attention, memory, consciousness, language, reasoning, learning is called…
What is cognitive psychology
300
What is the relay center in the thalamus for the visual pathway?
What is LGN
300
Mean, median, and mode are measures of what?
What is central tendency
300
What is it called when a stimulus that is not attended is not perceived, even though a person might be looking directly at it?
What is inattentional blindness
300
Patients fail to be aware of items to one side of space
What is hemispatial neglect
400
What is the part of the eye that contains no photoreceptors?
What is the blind spot
400
Which of the two streams are responsible for identifying an object?
What is the what stream
400
In an experiment, the outcome variable that is measured is called the _____________.
What is dependent variable
400
What is a phenomenon in visual perception in which very large changes occurring in full view in a visual scene are not noticed?
What is change blindness
400
What theory has two primary stages of attention: pre-attentive and the focused attention stages?
What is Feature Integration Theory
500
What is the inability to recognize objects, places, and people?
What is visual agnosia
500
What is characterized by an impaired visual control of the direction of arm reaching to a visual target, accompanied by defective hand orientation and grip formation?
What is optic ataxia
500
This structure is the primary relay system in the brain.
What is thalamus
500
What is the phenomenon that the second of two targets cannot be detected or identified when it appears close in time to the first?
What is attentional blink
500
What group of people shows a reduced attentional blink?