Cognitive Psych - Exam 1

The probability of an outcome is determined by the prior probability and the likelihood of the outcome, is called:

How much information a person can handle at any given moment, refers to:

The principle that every stimulus pattern is seen so the resulting structure is as simple as possible:

Transitional probabilities are:

Which theory explains how an object’s features become bound together?

The ability to be looking at a fully visible object & not see it due to your attention be focused elsewhere is known as:

The Little Albert experiment, conducted by Watson, was aimed at examining:

We perceive the world that is most likely based on our past experiences is called

Donder’s simple reaction time experiment was meant to study:

Cognitive psychology is defined as:

Who believed that they could describe different components of experience by using analytic introspection?

Feature detectors are the idea that:

Treisman’s attenuation model has two stages, which are the:

The representation of a stimulus by the pattern of firing of a large number of neurons is called:

The processes of people actively constructing perceptions using information based on expectations, is called:

Which of the following is NOT a reason why machine can’t perceive like humans:

Learning a list of nonsense syllables, taking a short break, and then relearning the list later, was interested in:

When perception comes from stimuli in the environment, that is known as

Slow, labored, ungrammatical speech can result from:

Cherry's experiment where participants listened to two different messages, one presented to each ear, found that people

A study that measures how fast you press the X key when shown a square and the M key when shown a circle demonstrates a:

What does the part of the neuron called the axon do:

Shifting attention while keeping the eyes still is called:

Where do neurons communicate with one another?

The old belief that neurons are interconnected and continuous was called a: