The Visual System
Red-High Wavelength
Green- Medium
Blue-Low
What are the three types of memory?
Sensory, Working Long term
You are nervous to take an exam for which you waited to study until the very last minute. When you take the exam, you feel unsure about the results; however, when your grade comes back a B+, you exclaim to your friends, "I was sure that I'd aced that exam!"
Is an example of what
Hindsight Bias
The Ice Cream/Mugging example is a good example of what?
Corleation V.S. Causation
What is Clever Hans a psychological example of
Ocams Razor ( The easiest example is usually the correct one)
IN THE BRAIN
What was Special about Rajan Mahadevan when compared to a normal human
He had amazing memory and recall ability
Chunking
What are two of the vital principals of scientific thinking
ruling out rival hypotheses, correlation versus causation, falsifiability, replicability, extraordinary claims, and Occam’s Razor
What is one reason that Uri Geller did not lose fame after his appearance on live TV
Confirmation Bias- People believed that he was actually "Out of sync" rather than he wasn't able to mess with the props
Trichromatic
Opponent process
Retinex theory
Name the three processes of memory
Encoding, Storage and Recall/Retreavel
What is the difference between The Aviability and the Representive huestic
Aviability- Only using recent souces or sources that come to mind quicker than
Representive-Over estimating the probality of an event based on past experence or other reasons
"Raining every Tennis game"
What is the the "Great Debate amoing psychologiests?
And why is studying twins and adoptiess give is the best answers
Nature V.S. Nurture
What is the placebeo affect and why does it need to be protected from, And how do they try and get rid of the placebo affect
Explain
What Visual Theory explains Afterimages
Opponent process theory
What is the difference between Retrograde and anterograde amnesia
Retro- No memory of the past
Antero- Not able to create new memories
What is a major difference between Human and animal communication
Animals use a lot more non-language displays for communication(Mating calls, Aggression displays)
Even teaching animals to learn engligh has faults, they dont learn the same. as we do and lack basic human langause rules (Chimps and parrots)
What are two of the methods for conducting science?
What are the Pros and cons of each one
naturalistic observation, case studies, self-report measures, and surveys.
What is the major differences of system 1 and system 2
System 1- Intuivite and rapid thinking
System 2- Slow analytical thinking
What is the Major Difference Between Rods and Cones
Cones help us see color and Rods do not
What are the two types of long term memory and what is the difference between them?
Semantic- Knowlage and facts of the world
You remember that 1+1=2
Epispdic- Recolection of events in our lives
You remember learning basic math in 2nd grade about addition
Cognitive economy! We dont have the ability to know everything and understand the entire world around us.
What is the Ladder of scientific understanding what what is the bottom row? What happens as we climb up the ladder
The bottom row is molucules while the top row is how society impacts the person
What geos into a good reaserach, And how do we figure out where bad reaserach can be fixed
andom assignment and manipulation of an independent variable but also inclusion of an appropriate control condition to rule out placebo effects.