This is the ability to transform external energy into neural signals.
What is Sensation?
100
Gibson argued that many laboratory experiments which restrict participant's ability to interact with their environment are not _________.
What is ecologically valid?
100
This is when our attention is focused onto a singular task or idea.
What is selective attention?
100
This refers to the ability of our neural networks to adjust themselves as a result of experience.
What is neural plasticity?
100
This is a complex reaction time task.
What is the Go/No-Go Task?
200
These prototypical shapes are what we use to "build" our perception of objects.
What are geons?
200
This thing has the ability to perceive, act, and has a goal.
What is an agent?
200
This is the ability to focus our perception and cognition on a particular stimulus or idea.
What is attention?
200
Although this does not start with "N", this refers to aspects of our perception which do not change despite the sensory information changing.
What are invariants?
200
This task requires you to remember a sequence and reproduce it.
What is the backwards serial position task?
300
This type of processing results in memories or biases influence on our perceptions.
What is top-down processing?
300
Doing this allows to to more accurately determine if we will fit trough an aperture.
What is moving?
300
This model of attention allows us to explain the cocktail party effect.
What is the attenuator model?
300
Although this does not start with "n" this refers to something which originates from within, like self-directed attention.
What is endogenous?
300
This task requires you to remember and constantly update information in memory while forgetting old information.
What is the n-back task?
400
This Branch of Psychology was focused on the rules and laws we utilize to organize our perceptual information into a singular whole.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
400
This is any aspect about an environment which does not change as a result of our actions: like the shape of a door or table.
What is an invariant?
400
This is another term for the early selection model of attention.
What is "the bottleneck" model?
400
Although this does not start with "N" this refers to our ability to ignore irrelevant information or to stop ourselves from certain responses/behaviors/thoughts.
What is inhibition?
400
Performance on the n-back and backwards serial position task are likely to _______________ correlated.
What is positively?
500
This lobe of the brain is associated with understanding "what" we are looking at.
What is the temporal lobe?
500
These are the ways in which we are able to interact with the environment, which directs our perceptions and actions.
What is an affordance?
500
When we are able to do multiple tasks at the same time with no problems, this is the result of at least one of those tasks being:
What is automatic?
500
The chapter on Long-Term Memory will be this on this coming exam.
What is "not"?
500
Performance on the go/no-go task is likely to be most strongly correlated to performance on this task.