History of Cognitive Psych
Wundt's procedure which involved the self-examination of one's own emotions and mental processes
What is introspection?
Neurons that respond to specific qualities of objects such as orientation are called ________
What are feature detectors?
This imaging method measures brain function by looking at how blood flow (specifically oxygen) changes in response to cognitive/neural activity
What is fMRI?
When a stimulus is identified more easily when it is in the context of a sentence or a scene than when it is presented alone, this is an example of _____ processing.
What is top-down?
This person studied "choice reaction time"
This American Psychologist disliked introspection and wanted to understand the function of the mind rather than the structure
Who is William James?
A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron
What is an action potential?
Diffusion Tensor Imaging is used to map the location of ________ in the brain
What are axons?
The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina is called _____
What is the inverse projection problem?
This person started out as a physicist and began studying color and vision after an eye injury
Who is Fechner?
This person proposed that children's language development was due to imitation and reinforcement.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
Megan has brain damage that is making it difficult for her to understand where things are in three dimensional space. It is most likely the damage is in her _____ lobe.
What is parietal?
When a neuron receives an excitatory signal from another neuron, this makes the inside of the neuron more __________ charged
What is "positively"?
The fact that trees are more likely to be vertical or horizontal is an example of _______
What is physical regularity?
When we perceive that a light is moving when in reality nothing is actually moving (one light is turning on and off and then another one next to it is turning on and off) this is called ____________________
What is "apparent motion"?
This psychologist believed that rats made cognitive maps
Who is Tolman?
Following a stroke, John's speech is very slow, with jumbled sentence structure. It is likely that he has damage to ______ area
What is Broca's?
The __________ lobe of the cerebral cortex is responsible for planning and sequencing of behavior as well as understanding the consequences of our actions.
What is the frontal lobe?
At a marching band competition you easily perceive the band members who are all in the same uniforms as being grouped together. This demonstrates the law of _________
What is similarity?
This theory of object perception states that the probability of an outcome is determined by the prior probability (knowledge and expectations) and the likelihood based on the current information on your retina.
What is Bayesian inference?
This research method would be the most accurate way to assess the impact of exercise on cognitive functioning.
What is an experiment?
The idea that our Mom or dog would have a unique pattern of neural activity, rather than a single neuron that is dedicated to only them, is called _______
What is population coding?
This brain network was discovered by accident, and is active when we are day dreaming and are not engaged in doing a task
What is the default mode network?
Objects lower in our field of vision are perceived as _______ due to the principle of _____ (depth cue)
What is nearer and relative height?
The idea that our perception of objects is a result of unconscious assumptions we make based on past experiences was proposed by _____________
Who is Helmholtz?