Test Flashcards
(26 cards)
result of damage to the thalamus
difficulty in sensory input to the brain
bad hit and now having trouble remembering plays learned
sensory association cortex
becoming a dull and excitable person means damage to what part of the brain
frontal lobe
becoming emotionally bland an sticking to one strategy for solving a problem
frontal lobe
trouble balancing and coordination of movements means damage to what part of brain
cerebellum
difficulty walking smoothly, moving legs in a jerky manner and falling down often-damage where?
cerebellum
recording electrical activity of nerve cells in particular areas of a rat’s brain-what device?
stereotaxic apparatus
machine that uses x-rays to look at slices of brain
CAT scanner
scanner that uses radio waves instead of x-rays that provides additional info about damaged area
MRI scanner
Wernicke’s Aphasia is caused by injury to:
a region of the auditory association cortex (leave out nouns)
Broca’s area damage causes
difficulty producing speech
Left side of brain deals with:
analysis of information
Right side of brain deals with:
synthesis of information
homeostasis
maintaining equilibrium in the body
Weber’s law
- how much does it take to notice a different?
- weight=1/40
- light=1/60
ROC curve
reciever operating characteristic curve
-threshold level is 50%
shape constancy
shape depends on two or three dimensions
shape of the retinal image is rarely the shape of the object
binocular disparity
caused by the slightly different position of each eye
induced movement
perceiving movement when it is not actually moving
threshold
when you can just barely tell the difference
perceptual construction
recognizing patterns you don’t know yet
perceptual differentiation
learning to recognize differences in stimuli
Fechner’s Law
psychological intensity=Klogi
i=physical intensity
anatomical coding
separate our different sensory modalities
-where are the neurons are firing and the type of stimulis
