In the beginning...
Watson had a problem with this method, because its results varied from person to person, and was impossible to verify.
What is analytic introspection.
This ~3 mm of tissue is located in the forebrain, and is responsible for conscious thought and complex mental processes.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This type of perception is only determined by stimuli received by the senses.
What is bottom-up processing?
This function of attention is when we notice a target when it is obscured by unrelated background information.
What is signal detection?
This is what is in charge of the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, AND helps allocate our attentional resources.
What is the Central Executive?
Tolman found that the manner in which rats navigated a maze indicated this mental construct.
What is a cognitive map?
This type of neural control means that when we move our hand, motor control is initiated from the opposite hemisphere.
What is contralaterality?
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What is top-down processing?
What is vigilance decrement?
Be careful not to damage this part of you brain, because it could lead to doing the same thing over and over and over and over again.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This type of model is representative of the steps in a cognitive function, but is not tied to any specific brain regions.
What is a process model?
This "cross-over" between hemispheres is the reason why split brain patients can perceive stimuli from both of their visual fields.
What is the optic chasm?
When the features of a stimulus are closely spaced together, we tend to perceive the holistic configuration of a stimulus, also known as this type of precedence.
What is global precedence?
THE REASON THIS PHRASE IS HARDER TO READ than this following text is due to the high resemblance between UPPERCASE LETTERS, and is a demonstration of this theory.
What is similarity theory?
Even though we blink, we don't perceive an interruption in our vision. Instead, we perceive a continuous visual experience due to the primary function of this type of memory.
What is sensory memory?
This early study laid the foundation for inferring cognitive processes from behavioural outcomes.
What is Donder's choice reaction time study?
When we conduct a Wada test on the left hemisphere, we would expect this function to be impaired when identifying objects (for most people).
What is verbally naming?
When given an inert substance thought to be medication, some people may experience nausea, fatigue, or headaches, also known as this type of effect.
What is a nocebo effect?
This model of attention posits that information is filtered out before the message is analyzed for meaning by the detector.
What is Broadbent's Early filter model?
What if I move my couch to the other side of the room, paint the wall blue, and buy a new rug? Thinking about the answer to these questions would use this subsystem of working memory.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad.
Ebbinghaus constructed this measure to determine the magnitude of memory left from initial learning.
What is savings?
Damage to this region may result in fluent but meaningless speech, and impaired comprehension.
What is Wernicke's area?
If we ablate the temporal lobe of a monkey, we would expect to observe difficulties in this type of task.
What is object discrimination?
This component of Treisman's Attentuation Theory states that words that are important have low-thresholds for activation, and can account for the cocktail party phenomenon.
What is the dictionary unit?
I can't get that song out of my head! I keep silently repeating the lyrics to it all day. It must be stuck in this subsystem of my working memory.
What is the phonological loop?