Show:
The Eye
The Ear
Sensation/Perception
Memory
Consciousness
100
What is the eyes central point of focus? It allows you to see things clearly.
Fovea.
100
What are the 3 sections/parts of the ear?
Outer, Middle, Inner (Cochlear)
100
Explain and give an example of parallel processing
Your brain can simultaneously perceive more that one thing. Examples Vary.
100
What are the three steps of memory?
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval.
100
At what sleep stage do we dream?
REM sleep.
200
Explain the route that light takes when it enters your eye. You should include 6 parts of the eye.
1. Cornea 2. Pupil 3. Iris 4. Lens 5. Retina (Fovea) 6. Optic Nerve (Blindspot)
200
What is the cochlea?
a coiled, bony, fluid-filler tube in the inner ear through which sound waves trigger nerve impulses.
200
What is in attentional blindness? What is change blindness? What are examples of both
Inattentional blindness- failing to see visible objects because your attention is distracted, Gorilla playing basketball. Change blindness- failing to notice changes in your environment. Directions/Paiting, Chabris/Simons experiment.
200
Rank the following levels of encoding from strongest to weakest: Iconic/Visual, Semantic, Acoustic/Echoic.
1. Semantic 2. Acoustic/Echoic 3. Iconic/Visual
200
What is your circadian rhythm?
the biological clock; regular body rhythms that occur every 24 hours.
300
Where in the eye are rods and cones? What do they do?
The Retina. Rods allow you to see black, white, and gray. Cones allow you to see color.
300
What does Frequency determine about the sounds we hear?
Pitch.
300
Explain Top-Down and Bottom Up Processing.
Top-Down= seeing the whole (a gestalt) and then the parts Bottom-Up= seeing the parts and then the whole
300
What is long-term potentiation?
Increase in neural activity in the brain when storing information in memory.
300
What are the 3 types of drugs? Provide an example of each.
Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens. Examples Vary.
400
Explain the opponent process theory and list the opponents.
Theory that your retina is processing the opposite color of what you see. Red-Green, Yellow-Blue,White-Black
400
Explain both pitch theory and frequency theories of audition.
Place Theory- what links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated. Frequency Theory- the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency, enabling pitch to exist.
400
Name and define the 2 binocular cues.
Depth perception and retinal disparity.
400
Explain the difference between and name the part of the brain that processes Explicit and Implicit Memory.
Explicit=facts, events, hippocampus Implicit= procedures, skills, cerebellum
400
What is a social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur?
Hypnosis.
500
What is the Young Helmholtz or 3 color theory?
Theory that the retina contains only three different color receptors, red, green, blue.
500
Explain the two types of hearing loss/deafness.
Conduction- damage to the mechanical system of the ear Sensorineural- damage to cochlea's receptor cells
500
What are monocular cues? Provide and explain 2 examples.
Depth cues available while using only one eye. Answers Vary.
500
What are Proactive and Retroactive Interference? Provide an example of both.
Proactive= Old Disrupts New Retroactive= New Disrupts Old
500
Explain Withdrawal, Tolerance, Psychological and Physical dependence as well as Addiction.
Withdrawal= undesirable side effects of stopping drug taking Tolerance= diminishing effect of the same dose of the same drug, more to get you high, man Psychological= you need the drug to feel ok mentally Physical= you need the drug or you body will shut down Addiction= compulsive drug cravings