lectures Flashcards
What are cross-sectional developmental methods?
around this age, this particular ability develops; 3yr old vs 5yr old
What are longitudinal developmental methods?
a lot longer, but now we have data sets from elderly people who were tracked as babies i.e. do ppls political orientation change over time?
Name 5 ways drugs affect neurotransmitters
1) influence the chemical precursors of a transmitter substance
2) prevent the storage of the transmitter substance in vesicles
3) inhibit or stimulate the release of the transmitter substance
4) block postsynaptic receptors
5) block reuptake of free-floating transmitter substance
A split-brain patient is shown words on the right side of the screen. Can he recognize and verbalize them?
YES–> left brain
A split-brain patient is shown words on the left side of the screen. Can he recognize and verbalize them?
NO–> right brain
The ability to speak resides exclusively in which hemisphere?
left
A split-brain patient is shown words on the left side of the screen. How can he read aloud the object?
if right brain draws picture, left brain can read it
A split-brain patient is shown TOAD on the left side of the screen and STOOL on right side. How can he read aloud both objects?
Left brain saw stool, right brain saw toad; left hand draws toad, then left brain says stool out loud, then left hand draws stool
The desire to explain is in which hemisphere?
left
The ability to recognize faces is in which hemisphere?
right
What is transduction?
Changing of light from retina into sensations
How do we determine what is an object? (gestaldt rules of perception)
1) Proximity
2) similarity
3) closure
4) good continuation
5) common movement
6) good form
What is linguistic relativism?
the view that the language we speak affects our cognition/perception
binocular disparity?
images giving slightly different image to each eye
convergence?
at close distances, how much your eye is “crossed” gives the brain info about depth.
