Brain and the nervous system
Cognition and the brain
Sensation and perception
Attention
Random!
100

What are the two parts of the central nervous system?

Brain and spinal cord

100

explanation for the misinformation effect

Each time we experience an event, we create a memory trace. Each time we recall that event, we create a new memory trace.

100

How sensitive your perceptual system is to the presence of a stimulus (e.g. how low can you go?)


Absolute threshold

100

The ability to prioritise some information while ignoring other information

Selective attention

100

What is the magic number?

7 +/- 2

200

What are the four F's?

Fighting, Fleeing, Feeding, Mating

200

What was HM's diagnosis and what caused it?

Severe amnesia, epilepsy surgery which removed his hippocampus. 

200

combining sensations from the world to create perception/ what we pay attention to

Bottom up process

200

A phenomenon of visual perception that occurs when a stimulus undergoes a change without this being noticed by its observer.

Change blindness

200

Do bigger body parts have bigger representation in the brain?

No!

300

Which nervous system increases arousal, prepares body for survival-related action, the Four F's - fighting, fleeing, feeding, mating?

Sympathetic nervous system

300

Memory for factual information

Semantic memory

300

What are the two streams responsible for the neural processing of vision

Ventral and dorsal streams

300

What are the two processes that guide our attention? Hint: One is stimulus-driven and involuntary and the other is goal-driven and voluntary.

Top-down and bottom-up processes

300

The relationship between the physical world and the psychological world.

Psychophysics

400

Name the different lobes of the brain.

Parietal, occipital, frontal, temporal

400

What is Damasio’s Somatic Marker Hypothesis?

proposes that emotional processes guide behaviour, particularly decision-making.

400

Objects maintain their properties even when the context changes their physical characteristics




Perceptual constancy

400

Reading the page of a textbook but not remembering what you just read is an example of what?

An automatic process.

400

What is dichotic listening?

the process of receiving different auditory messages presented simultaneously to each ear.

500

Also known as a knee jerk. It is an example of a neural circuit, the hit travels to the spinal cord and activates both an excitatory and inhibitory action. What is this called?



Patellar reflex

500

What are the two kinds of brain markers (ways of measuring brain activity)?

Changes in electrical activity on the scalp during a task, and changes to the blood in different areas during a brain task

500

Cannot “see” objects, but can interact with them normally

Agnosia

500

Listening to something and immediately saying out loud what you just heard

Shadowing

500

I find out that the price of my bus fare has increased by a dollar, and I am annoyed. But when I find out that the price of my flight to Auckland has increased by a dollar, I don’t care. My reaction is a demonstration of what?

Weber's law