First Midterm questions Flashcards
Broadbent used his filter model to argue what about the whole nervous system?
It can be regarded as a single channel with limits to the rate at which stimulus information can be transmitted
Which term refers to mental representations that organize our experiences and hep us identify what is expected and unexpected in the environment?
Schemas
According to Gibson’s notion of information pickup, learning meas becoming progressively more attuned to
what the environment affords us
Which of the following best describes Gibson’s notion of affordances?
Affordances refer to what things furnish for good or ill
According to information theory, in what way is information provided by a particular message related to the probability of its occurrence?
Inversely
According to information theory, if we wanted to increase the amount of information carried by a signal, we could do any of the following except
increase the interval of time between successive signals (you can…icnrease the number of alternative signals, decrease the signal’s probability of occurence, and reduce the certainty of the signal)
The weight illusion, which seems heavier
longer vs shorter
smaller vs larger
What statement is consistent with the notion that the ind consists of modules?
The mind consists of specific parts with different functions
What did Franz and Lashleys research involving ablation of regions of rat brains demonstarte about learning and memory?
the location of lesions was irrelevant as long as enough tissue remained in the rat’s brain
the notion that the mind is simply a by product of brain processes and has no causal role in determining behavior is consistent with wihch approach to the relationship between mind and brain?
Epiphenomenalism
What is one of the main differences between Broca’s aphasia and Wernicke’s aphasia?
Broca’s aphasia leads to slow and halted speech
Why are computed tomography and megnetic resonance imaging useful brain imaging techniques
produce good resolution of brain structures
Joan had part of her visual cortex removed because of a brain tumor. After surgery, her cognitive functions were otherwise in tact. However, she was now blind, Best captured by Fodor’s
Informational encapsulation
In an experiment by Sperry and Myers, cats were trained to discriminate between two levers and push one to recieve food. While being trained, cats wore an eyepatch on one of their eyes. Additionally, the experimental group had their optic chaism and corpus collosum severed. what was interesting about this experiment?
when researchers moved the eyepatch to the opposite eye, the experimental group of cats began behaving as if they never learned the discrimination task
Which concept involves the changing pattern of information in the ambient optical array that results from the movement of objects or the observer through an environment?
Optic flow field
What is one of the main probles associated with template matching>
It is difficult to specify the way in which a template can match patterns that are simukar to it, or what is required for a pattern to be similar enough
Which of the following is NOT true of the theoyr called recognition by components
If one of an object’s geon’s is extractable, then it is possible to quickly recognize the entire object (true…Every object down to 36 goens, object recognition involves parsing an object into constituent geons and then comparing that information with representations stored in memory
What does the word superiority effect assert?
People more accurately identify a single letter if it was previously presented in a real world context than in isolation
What does Treisman’s feature integration theory FIT claim?
Before we can attend to objects in the world we must extract the features that constitute the,
Which of the following is a fundamental assumption of Gestalt Psychology
The whole that is percieved is greater than the sum of its parts
Why are bi-stable images often used to exemplify the Gestalt appraoch to perception?
They illustrate that the exact same sensory infomraiton can lead to very different percepts
According to ecological psychology, if we showed people a collection of balls of various sizes and asked them to pick out the best one to throw far, they should..
pick the one that will be easiest for them to throw far
