Hearing
__________ corresponds to the frequency of a sound wave, while ________ corresponds to the amplitude/height of a sound wave.
What are pitch (Hz) and loudness/amplitude (dB)?
Last week after class Alan met someone named Jessica. Today, Alan sees her again. He recognizes her, but frustratingly, cannot remember her name, only that it begins with the letter “J.” Alan’s experience (of not being able to remember the name he had learned) represents a failure related to this memory process.
What is retrieval?
This individual represents a specific case study that indicated that there is a critical period in language acquisition.
Who is Genie?
This occurs when one of the three cones is absent in the eye.
What is colorblindness?
All but one of the following is a Gestalt principle of grouping. Of these options, ______ is NOT a Gestalt principle of grouping: Proximity Closure Interposition Similarity
What is interposition?
______ is the conversion of a stimulus to an electrical signal.
What is transduction?
Your friend Alex asks you to explain retrograde amnesia to him. Based on what you learned in your PSYC 100 class, you tell him that a person with retrograde amnesia, experiences a loss of past ______ memory, but retains their normal ______ memory.
What are episodic and semantic?
In Piaget’s preoperational development stage (2-7 years old), ______ is the obstacle that must be overcome by the child to advance to the next stage according to Dr. Vanderbilt.
What is centration?
The detection of physical energy by our sense organs.
What is sensation?
Feature integration theory suggests that we detect different aspect of an object (e.g. color, shape, etc.) _____, and then integrate the separate features ____ to recognize the object.
What is all at once and one at a time?
Transduction of auditory information occurs in the __________.
What is the cochlea?
Hearing two friends report their birthdays, one right after the other, Harry was only able to remember the 2nd birthday he was told. ______ most likely prevented him from remembering all the information he heard.
What is retroactive interference?
Of the following terms, this term best describes the rules for how words should be put together: Pragmatics Phoneme Morpheme Syntax
What is syntax?
This type of processing is driven primarily by sensory output.
What is bottom-up processing?
As you look down a long, deserted road, the edges of the road seem to converge on one another, almost touching at their furthest point in the distance. This monocular depth cue describes this phenomenon.
What is linear perspective?
These three bones are a part of the middle ear.
What are the ossicles, stirrup, and anvil?
The finding that people have better memory for the words at the beginning of a list is known as the _______ effect and occurs because the words from the beginning of list are stored in _______ memory.
What are the primacy effect and long-term memory?
In terms of schema development, ______ occurs when a scheme is created, changed, or expanded in response to a new object.
What is accommodation?
You are sitting in a cafe, and you smell something sweet. Without seeing it, you immediately think of fresh cookies. This type of processing is called ______.
What is top-down processing?
Your brain use certain binocular cues to help create your visual perception of depth. This binocular depth cue is based on your brain’s integration of the two sightly different views seen by each eye.
What is binocular disparity?
This theory of pitch perception states that different locations along the basilar membrane are activated by different sound frequencies, allowing us to hear different pitches.
What is place theory?
______ shows that words from distant conversations make it into echoic memory and can draw our attention.
What is the cocktail party effect?
These are all four of Piaget's developmental stages. (Double points for the group that can provide the age groups associated with each stage!)
What are sensorimotor (0-2), preoperational (2-7), concrete operational (7-12), and formal operational (12+)?
You walk into a room that smells strongly of perfume, but after a few minutes, you barely notice the smell anymore. This concept explains why the smell seems to fade.
What is sensory adaptation?
Hearing two friends report their birthday, one right after the other, Harry was only able to remember the 2nd birthday he was told. ______ most likely prevented him from remembering all the information he heard.
What is retroactive interference?