Sensation
Type of processing that involves the interpretation of sensations.
What is bottom-up processing?
The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience.
What is learning?
_____________ is thinking. It encompasses the processes associated with:
Perception, Knowledge, Problem-solving, Judgement, Language, Memory
What is cognition?
Built from senses and influenced by experiences, biases, and culture.
What is perception?
What happens when sensory receptor detects sensory information.
What is sensation?
Contributes to our ability to maintain balance and body posture.
What is vestibular perception?
Process by which we learn to associate stimuli and, consequently, to anticipate events.
What is classical conditioning?
Categories of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories.
What are concepts?
Learning occurs but is not observable in behavior until there is a reason to demonstrate it.
What is latent learning?
Balancing on one leg with your arms in the air is an example of ___________.
The idea that things that are close to one another tend to be grouped together.
What is proximity?
Conducted a famous study with “Little Albert”
Who is John B. Watson
Believed that intelligence consisted of one factor, called g
Who is Charles Spearman?
The best example or most typical representation of that concept
What is a prototype?
The sensation involved in the feeling of pain.
What is nociception?
Perception of the body’s movement through space.
What is Kinesthesia?
Pleasant consequence/desired result → behavior is more likely to occur again.
Unpleasant consequence/undesired result → behavior is less likely to occur again.
What is operant conditioning?
The ability to understand the emotions of yourself and others, show empathy, understand social relationships and cues, and regulate your emotions.
What is emotional intelligence?
The ability to provide a correct or well-established answer or solution to a problem.
What is convergent thinking?
The sense that activates the recall of memories the quickest.
What is the sense of smell or olfaction?
Believed that perception involved more than simply combining sensory stimuli
Sensory Information + Predictability (how we organize the sensory information) = Perception
Who is Max Wertheimer
Proposed the theory of operant conditioning?
The experiment included a rat and a box.
B.F. Skinner
A learning disability resulting in a struggle to write legibly.
What is dysgraphia?
Robert Sternberg's theory identifies three types of intelligence: practical, creative, and analytical.
What is the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence?