Exam Review 1 Cog Psych 240

according to dual hypothesis, what are harder to remember b/c they are coded only one way?

Obstructed images and orientation differences are a problem for...

They allow us to see detail and color

Tommy knows his mom's car is the same size even though it seems smaller when she drives away

Problems with geons include...

Eric was so focus on the UMich game he failed to notice his GF making fun of his cheering.

____ theory uses a general example of an object to facilitate the recognition of other objects

Johnny fails to recognize the faces of even his closest friends. Johnny has...

A neuron that activates only when it encounters a very specific object (a friend's face)

Who introduced the idea of the cognitive map?

Chris sees an acquaintance from H.S. but can't quite remember his name. This is known as...

The period when a neuron is unable to fire is called

What does not lead to poor visual memory?

Our failure to notice a distorted face when it is oriented upside down is known as

An area in the visual field where optic nerve passes thru retina & there are no photoreceptors

This theory explains why we have color-complementary afterimages

Info is received by _ , info is transmitted by _, and is released into the _

The process of what converts energy into info the brain can process?

Which of the following is not a Gestalt principle

Who created mental chronometry?

Type of study: subjects respond one way to one stimulus and another way to a similar stimulus

What is a problem with the richer visual code hypothesis?

Who discovered the forgetting curve?

Who demonstrated fear conditioning using a white rabbit and an infant?

Karen didn't notice that her friend changed into a different shirt. This is an example of

According to Treisman's Feature Integration Theory...

Noah eats less at a buffet in a psych experiment than he normally would. This is an example of

___ theory suggest that we have specific receptors that recognize orientation and shape

What is a problem with feature detection?

A stimulus that acts directly on the sense organs (e.x. light on retina)

Which is NOT a feature of automatic processing?

Theory that says that processing is driven by external stimulus and our expectations

Karen is faster at recognizing the word bread after she has seen the word butter. This is ...

When Susie sees a number, she automatically associates it with a color. This is called...

Propositional representations...

Uses self-reflection to try to discern what was going on in the mind

When the percept does not match the distal stimuli

Which is/are a form of preconcious processing?

Which of the following is not a monocular cue?

Humans process and represent verbal and nonverbal information in separate, but related systems