Week 1

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

Conscious experience of objects and object relations

Question 2

Cognition

Answer 2

How we know the world; attention, learning, memory, thinking, language, problem-solving, consciousness

Question 3

Sensation and perception

Answer 3

Systematic biases and misperceptions. Doctrine of “constructivism”

Question 4

Cognitive psychology

Answer 4

People are not strictly logical in thinking, reasoning, or decision-making; we work from “heuristics” rather than “algorithms”

Question 5

Social psychology

Answer 5

People are bad at predicting how they will feel about things in the future

Question 6

Doctrine of direct perception

Answer 6

Senses give us immediate and complete access to reality. All info needed for perception is in stimulus

Question 7

Doctrine of constructivism

Answer 7

Senses provide information from outside world, but that info is extensively processed by the brain. Experience/ expectations play a large role in perception, but system has built in biases. Leads to perceptual illusion

Question 8

Behavioral testing

Answer 8

“Psychophysics” includes measuring thresholds, objectively measuring people’s experiences of stimuli, decision making under uncertainty

Question 9

Sensory neuroscience

Answer 9

Linking sensation and perception to activity of sensory nerves

Question 10

Neuroimaging

Answer 10

What is going on in the brain while you are sensing/perceiving

Question 11

Sensation

Answer 11

First contact between organism and environment