Study guide

Question 1

who founded the first psychology lab?

Answer 1

Wundt

Question 2

A difficult task when words and colours are inconsistent.

Answer 2

The Stroop task

Question 3

Task requiring two or more responses

Answer 3

Choice reaction time

Question 4

Trained procedure to describe thoughts and experiences.

Answer 4

Analytic introspection

Question 5

This module involves visual movement perception.

Answer 5

Medial temporal cortex MT

Question 6

Subcortical structure involved in memory formation.

Answer 6

Hippocampus

Question 7

Transformation of environmental stimulus into electrical signal

Answer 7

Transduction

Question 8

Impairment in recognizing faces.

Answer 8

Prosopagnosia

Question 9

Subcortical area involved in processing emotional stimuli:

Answer 9

Amygdala

Question 10

Chemical messengers that traverse the synapse

Answer 10

Neurotransmitter

Question 11

Measures brain activity based on hemoglobin molecules.

Answer 11

fMRI

Question 12

Brain area serves higher cognitive functions such as executive planning.:

Answer 12

frontal lobe, cerebral cortex, Prefrontal Cortex

Question 13

A subcortical area that transmits sensory information to the cortex.

Answer 13

Thalamus

Question 14

Cortical lobe involved in basic visual processing

Answer 14

Occipital lobe

Question 15

Type of neuron that receives environmental input:

Answer 15

Sensory Neuron (photoreceptors)

Question 16

This approach states that the mind processes information through a sequence of stages.

Answer 16

information -process approach

Question 17

This physiological measure has excellent temporal resolution.

Answer 17

Electroencephalography (EEG) (Event-related potential (ERP)

Question 18

Objects moving in the same direction are grouped together:

Answer 18

Common Fate.

Question 19

Green dots form the number 74

Answer 19

Similarity.

Question 20

This heuristic can lead to errors when objects are occluded:

Answer 20

Common Region.

Question 21

The heuristic that explains why infants might find fireworks confusing:

Answer 21

Familiarity

Question 22

Processing that begins with information from the senses:

Answer 22

Bottom-up processing

Question 23

Basic features of the RBC model

Answer 23

Geons (volumetric primitives 3D) 36 total, rectangles, pyramids

Question 24

This effect demonstrates the basic features in the FIT model:

Answer 24

pop-out effect (tilt, line ends, movement, color).

Question 25

Discuss a prediction of the RBC model of object construction.:

Answer 25

You recognize the object as long as geons are present and can be discriminated.

Question 26

What are the two modules of the brain for visual processing?

Answer 26

Ventral (extends from temporal lobe) and Dorsal pathway (extends from the parietal lobe).

Question 27

The Pop Out effect is found in what cognitive experiment?

Answer 27

It is found in the FIT (feature Integration theory).

Question 28

What cortical structure involves auditory processing?

Answer 28

The Primary auditory cortex

Question 29

What cortical area responds maximally to faces?

Answer 29

Fusiform face area (FFA) in the temporal lobe