FINAL Flashcards

Question

declarative/procedural memory

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declarative- knowing that (statements); mainly explicit procedural- knowing how (skills); mainly implicit

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had an operation to remove hippocampus and amygdala in hopes to alleviate epilepsy left him with anterograde amnesia

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forgetting events AFTER trauma

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amnesia patients performed poorly on explicit memory amnesia patient's performance on implicit memory was like normal

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compatibility principles any memory for an item has the item's context wrapped up in it too context at retrieval should be like context at encoding

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current stimulus that aids retrieval

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at least in part memory involves reconstruction of remembered info memory can be distorted by other info

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had patients looked at slideshow of car accident pictures asked either how fast when they hit or how fast when they smashes week later asked if they saw ant glass those with smash question said yes

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basic, primitive mental state corresponding to energies in environment EXPERIENCE of world

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mental state corresponding to properties of objects and events in environment based on sensation KNOWLEDGE of world

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quality of sensation depends on which nerve fibers are stimulated, not the stimulus any sensory experience must have a corresponding set of nerve fibers

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electromagnetic radiation intensity corresponds with brightness wavelength corresponds with color

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light-sensitive neurons in retina of eye that produce action potentials when stimulated by light two types - rods - cones

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low light conditions; nighttime; black white only very sensitive; mostly in periphery

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bright light conditions; daytime; colored vision less sensitive; mostly in fovea

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short wavelength- blue light medium wavelength- green light long wavelength- red light

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opponent process cells

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white/black red/green blue/yellow (either excited or inhibited)

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there are three cone cells but they are most likely violet, green and yellow colors come in opponent pairs activation of short, medium, or long wavelength cones may excite or inhibit opponent process cels this is how we see color

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bundle of axons on ganglion cells, leading out back of brain no rods or cones here leaves a blind spot in vision

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central depression in retina where cones are most densely packed most acute vision

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neighboring receptor cells tend to inhibit each other by using inhibitory interneurons that connect them result- exaggeration of contrasts

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neighboring regions of different brightness have their boundaries sharpened as their brightness/darkness difference increases

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stimulation of receptors produces sensation of brightness and colors then light sensation must be interpreted as objects

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proximal stimulus is inadequate for knowing about distal stimulus conclusion- perception doesn't happen in eye, it happens in the brain

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inverted- image is upside-down on retina ambiguous- close up objects appear same size as larger further objects 2-dimension- image is flattened but object is in 3-D

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Herman Von Helmholtz retinal image and clues along with knowledge/inferences learned from experiences result in the precept

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monocular depth cues unconscious inference

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linear convergence- convergence point is far away interposition- nearer objects block further objects relative size- nearer objects cast larger retinal images than further objects

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the best guess at what distal stimulus probably caused the proximal stimulus

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perception is always in the direction of the best inference

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gestalt psychologists retinal image and innate laws of organization result in the precept

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grouping by proximity grouping by similarity good continuation closure

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apparent motion stimulus present in two locations within a short time interval is seen as one moving stimulus no sensation of movement present

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elaborative rehersal experiment subjects shown a list of words and asked to use one of three strategies - visual - acoustin - semantic

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doctrine of specific nerve endings

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trichromatic theory with Helmholtz all colors are mixtures of blue, green, red based on response to those cone types