Miscellaneous
Neurophysiology
Perception
Attention
Reps in LTM
100
Type of psychologists who claimed that in order to fully understand psychology, we should not attempt to figure out hidden events but rather focus on things we can observe.
Who are behaviorists?
100
Part of the neuron where the action potential travels.
What is the axon?
100
Group of Psychologists who extensively investigated grouping principles
Who are Gestalt Psychologists?
100
Attention deficit in which the impairment leads the patient to ignore information appearing on the side of space opposite the damaged side of the brain.
What is Hemispatial Neglect?
100
A physical state that stands for an object, event, or concept.
What is a representation?
200
According to the text, this analysis is superior for understanding the mind.
What is Information Processing?
200
This neuroimaging device mimics a temporary lesion in your brain.
What is TMS?
200
An exact model of a distinctive pattern or form, used as the basis for perception of patterns or forms
What is a template?
200
Theory not supported by the cocktail party effect
What is Early Selection theory?
200
A set of nested categories that vary in abstraction with each nested subset being a subset of its higher order category.
What is Taxonomy?
300
Titchener's school of thought
What is Introspection?
300
Plane of section - between your eyes.
What is Sagittal?
300
Brain activity analogous to bottom up and top down processing
What is feed-forward and feedback activity in the brain?
300
Failure of temporal attention, shown in the laboratory setting.
What is Attentional Blink?
300
Representation based on statistical patterns.
What is a Neural Net?
400
MRI technique has ___________ spatial resolution and ___________ temporal resolution.
good, bad
400
Subcortical structure that is crucial for motor function.
What is Basal Ganglia?
400
Center of damage resulting in Achromatopsia?
What is the V4?
400
A participant is briefly shown a search display containing 7 red and 1 green circles and 5 red squares. In addition to seeing the red circles and squares and green circle, she reports seeing a green square. This report is evidence of this phenomenon.
What is Illusory Conjunction?
400
Contain Frame, semantic network and property list.
What are amodal symbols?
500
When the same conclusions about a specific phenomenon are drawn in studies that use different methods, researchers are dealing with this.
What is Converging Evidence?
500
Particular part of the frontal left hemisphere of the brain appears to contribute to language production.
What is Broca's area?
500
When we perceive a number of features (red, square, etc.) occupying a single area of space at a single moment in time, our mind must decide how to associate these features in order to perceive a single object.
What is the Binding Problem?
500
Type of search that has pop-out; number of distractors do not matter.
What is Single feature/disjunctive search?
500
The two types of representations that use sensory and motor systems
What are Images and Feature Records?