Class 1-30 Learning Flashcards
(22 cards)
Little albert
Cs- rat
Us- loud noise
Cr- fear
Ucr- fear
Pavloves dogs
Us- food powder
Cs- tone
Cr-salvation
Ucr- salvation
Generalization
Opposite of discrimination
Discrimination
Discriminate some curs with other cues
Mary Cover Jones
Used extinction
Blind spot
The point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye creating a blind spot becase no receptor cella are located there.
Optic nerve
The nerve that carries nearal impulses frim the eye to the brain
Rods
Retinal receptors that detect black white and gray, necessary for peripher and twilight vision when cones don’t respond. Faint light
Cones
Deatil and color
Feature detectors
Specialization nerons in the occupital lobes visual cortex receive infomation from individual ganglion cells in the retina.
Parallel processing
Doing many things at once
Young- Helmhortz theory
Three color theory. Red, green, blue.
Opponent- process theory
The idea that opposing retinal proceses, red- green, yellow- blue, white- black. Enables colord vision.
Binocular cues
Depth cues, such a retinal disparoty that depend on the use of two eyes
Retinal disparity
Comparing the images from both eyes to find the distance. The closer to the eyes the larger the disparity.
Phi phenomonon
An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.
Perceptual constancy
Percieving objects as unchanged even if illumination and retinal images change
Color constancy
Percieving objects to be the same color even if changing illumination alters the wave lengths relected by the object
Perceptual adaptation
In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even. Inverted visual field
Respondent behavior
Behavior that occures as an automatic response to some stimulus
Behaviorism
The view that psychology should be in an objective science that stdues behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with the first but mot the second
Respondent behavior
Behavior that occures as an automatic response to some stimulus
