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what’s human memory?

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stage theory: long term and short term memory = “working memory”

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what’s the duration of memory?

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long term: relatively permanent
short term: seconds to minutes

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what’s the storage capacity for memory?

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long term: infinite?
short term: 7+/-2 “chunks” (organized packets of information)

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what’s the flow of information in memory?

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  • stimulus -> STM -> rehearsal -> LTM
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what are two kinds of memory rehearsal?

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maintenance- holds info in STM
elaborative- moves into to LTM

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what’s the serial position effect in free recall?

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primacy effect- early part of list recalled better than middle: recalled from LTM
recency effect- last part of list recalled better than middle: recalled from STM

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what’s the psychological code between STM and LTM?

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STM: phonological- based on speech sounds (ex. confuse “boat with coat”)
LTM: semantic - based on meaning (ex. confuse “boat” with “ship”)

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what’s the neural code between STM and LTM?

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STM: dynamic- pattern of activity among a group of cells
LTM: structural- pattern of connections within a group of cells

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what’s trace consolidation?

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what goes on during elaborative rehearsal- a memory trace changes from a dynamic to a structural pattern

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what’s amnesia?

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interruption of consolidation process

retrograde amnesia: events before trauma
anterograde amnesia: events after trauma

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what’s forgetting for STM and LTM?

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STM: DISplacement and/or decay
LTM: MISplacement and/or retrieval failure
proactive interference: old info affects new
retroactive interference: new info affects old

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What leads to better memory?

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depth processing
deeper more meaningful processing
- connected to notion of elaborative rehearsal
- Craik and Tulving 1975 experiment shows DP important for better memory

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what is elaborative rehearsal?

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connecting new info with existing knowledge to enhance long-term retention and recall

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what LTM and STM?

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long term vs short term “Working memory”

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What’s episodic memory?

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episodes, events with time and place

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what’s generic/semantic memory?

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facts, concepts and meanings

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What’s explicit memory?

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reference to prior learning experience, recall- “what were the words you just read?”
recognition- “circle the words you saw earlier”

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what’s implicit memory?

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no conscious awareness of remembering, do priming (read list of words than do tasks)

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what’s declarative memory?

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knowing that (mainly explicit)
- statements, using episodic and generic information

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what’s procedural memory?

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knowing how (mainly implicit)
- skills: riding a bike, playing and instrument

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what’s retrieval?

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encoding specificity principle

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what’s a retrieval cue?

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current stimulus that aids retrieval
any memory for an item has the item’s context too
context cues at retrieval should be as much possible like context at encoding
recall better in context where words are learned

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What’s the Loftus and Palmer experiment? 1974

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at least in part, memory involves reconstruction of remembered information, memory may be distorted by other information (smash group more likely to say they saw glass in pics)

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what’s sensation?

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basic, primitive mental state corresponding to energies in experience of world

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what’s perception?

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mental state corresponding to properties of objects and events, knowledge of world

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What’s quality of sensation for doctrine of specific nerve energies (Johannes Muller, 1826)

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visual auditory, touch, etc. depends on which nerve fibers are stimulated, not on stimulus itself

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According to Muller, why are fibers of optic nerve are normally stimulated by light?

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  • may also be stimulated by pressure, electric current
  • any stimulation will yield experience of light
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according to Muller, what examples show any sensory experience must have corresponding set of nerve fibers?

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experiences of brightness, color, loudness, pitch

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what is light?

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electromagnetic radiation

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what’s electromagnetic spectrum from shortest to longest wavelength?

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gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, color, infrared, microwaves, radar, FM, TV, AM

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What corresponds with intensity?

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brightness

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what corresponds with wavelength?

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color
short = blue, medium = green, long = red

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what’s in the retina?

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consists of receptors (rods, cones) bipolar cells, ganglion cells

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how do we see light?

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light enters pupil, then passes through eyeball to retina: through ganglia, bipolars, then strike receptors

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what’s the optic nerve?

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bundle of axons of ganglion cells, leading out back of eye to brain (leaving blind spot)

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what’s the fovea?

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

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what are rods?

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very sensitive, black/white, night vision, 120,000,000

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what are cones?

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less sensitive, color, daytime vision, mostly in fovea, 6,000,000

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what are photoreceptors?

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light sensitive neurons in the retina that produce action potentials when stimulated by light (rods and cones)

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what are short-wavelength cone cells?

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most sensitive to blue-ish light

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what are medium-wavelength cone cells?

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most sensitive to green-ish light

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what are long-wavelength cone cells?

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most sensitive to red-ish light

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what are opponent processes?

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excitation and inhibition, cone cells send action potentials to opponent process cells

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what are black/white opponent process cells?

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excited, you see white, inhibited, you see black

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what are red/green opponent process cells?

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excited, you see red, inhibited, you see green

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what are blue/yellow opponent process cells?

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excited, you see blue, inhibited, you see yellow

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What’s the trichromatic theory?

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Young-Helmoltz theory

all colors would be mixtures of blue, green, red based on response of those cone types

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what’s the opponent-process theory?

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there ARE cone types, but not blue, green and red. Short, medium, and long wavelength cones, colors come in opponent pairs, activation of wavelength cones may excite or inhibit cells

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what’s lateral inhibition?

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  • neighboring receptor cells tend to inhibit each other
  • result is exaggeration of contrasts: dark looks darker, light looks lighter
50
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what’s brightness contrast?

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

51
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What’s a retinal image?

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

52
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For poverty of the stimulus, what’s wrong with proximal stimulus (retinal image)?

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inadequate for knowing about distal stimulus (thing in the world)

53
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what’s inversion?

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image of object is upside-down on retina

54
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what’s ambiguous- size and distance trade off?

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close-up small object has same image size as far-off large object

55
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what’s two-dimensional?

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image is flattened and then curved, but objects are three-dimensional solids

56
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where does perception happen?

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Not the eye, the brain!

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What’s depth perception according to Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)?

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retinal image + cues along with knowledge structures/inferences learned from experience –> percept

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what are monocular depth cues?

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only one eye needed

59
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what’s linear perspective?

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convergence point is far away

60
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what’s interposition?

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nearer objects will block farther objects

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what’s relative size?

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nearer objects cast larger retinal images than farther objects of same size

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what’s unconscious inference?

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best guess at what DISTAL stimulus PROBABLY caused the PROXIMAL stimulus (retinal image)
perception is always in the direction of the best inference

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what’s learned to infer distance of object?

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  • points nearer to where lines converge are farther away
  • retinal image: objects appear near to where lines converge (linear convergence cue)
  • infer: DISTAL object must be far away
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what can you use for size information?

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  • far off objects produce smaller retinal images
  • retinal image: two objects appear to have the SAME retinal image size (relative size cue)
  • infer: the farther-away DISTAL object must be LARGER
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What’s form perception from a nativist view, Gestalt Psychologists?

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retinal image + innate laws of organization -> percept

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what are the principles of perceptual organization?

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  1. grouping by proximity
  2. grouping by similarity
  3. good continuation
  4. closure
67
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what’s the phi phenomenon?

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  • stimulus present in two location within short time interval is seen as one moving stimulus
  • no moving stimulus though!

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