lecture 4

Question 1

perceptual learning is a form of which type of learning?

Answer 1

non associate learning (just like habituation and sensitization)

Question 2

perpetual skill learning and perceptual memory assist in perceptual:

Answer 2

processing and identification independent of the given response to the stimulus

Question 3

perceptual skill learning changes your ability to detect and classify a:

Answer 3

sensory stimuli’s following extensive experience with similar stimuli

Question 4

what does perceptual skill learning occur through:

Answer 4

unconsciously through repeated exposure

Question 5

perceptual skill learning is behavioral or cognitive memory?

Answer 5

behavioral

Question 6

perceptual skill learning is characterized by the notion

Answer 6

all of these appear to be the same, changes with experience of being able to identify the differences of that stimuli

Question 7

categorical perception:

Answer 7

our ability to classify stimuli into discrete categories that vary alone a continuum such as shades of a similar color

Question 8

phonemes /be/ and /de/ are perceived as distinct categories even tho they differ only in pitch and it is a distinction that is:

Answer 8

learning from exposure

Question 9

hyperacuity:

Answer 9

the ability to discriminate at a finer grain than is supported by the acuity of sensory receptors

Question 10

vernier acuity test results:

Answer 10

people improved over trials with training for one orientation, but performance dropped and had to be trained again when the orientation was switched. training occurs only in the eye that was trained

Question 11

monkeys were trained to discriminate between small differences in tone frequency, this is tapping into which kind of learning?

Answer 11

auditory perceptual learning

Question 12

which area corresponded to the training sound frequency and did it grow or shrink in size after training?

Answer 12

auditory cortex area and it grew in size

Question 13

does anterograde amnesia affect all learning snf memory equally?

Answer 13

no, they can complete perceptual learning skill training, but do not have recollection of training

Question 14

perceptual memory details are often described as a general sense of:

Answer 14

familiarity

Question 15

why might deja vu occur?

Answer 15

may be based on a perceptual match between current circumstances and a similar previous experience

Question 16

deja vu is a conscious awareness of familiarity, but:

Answer 16

what exactly is familiar and what the specific memory is rests within our unconscious perceptual memories

Question 17

priming:

Answer 17

the facilitation of processing of specific materials to which we have been recently exposed

Question 18

how can we test priming in the lab?

Answer 18

expose participants to a set of material without telling them what to do with it. they will inherently process this info

Question 19

word stem completion test:

Answer 19

get a partial part of word and make it into a full word. provide participants with a set of words to study, provide some sort of distractor task, then give the partial parts of words and see if they use any of the words they studied prior. a test if verbal repetition priming

Question 20

word stem completion test results

Answer 20

participants more likely to fill the stem with a word they previously studied even tho no instructions were given to do so

Question 21

explicit memory:

Answer 21

intentional recollection of factual info, previous experiences, and concepts

Question 22

those who generated antonyms themselves did what?

Answer 22

remmebered the words best followed by being provided an antonym and those reading aloud did worst

Question 23

if amnesiac patients and healthy controls perform differently on a perceptual memory task, it suggests what?

Answer 23

that it uses different brain structures than cognitive memory