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who founded the first psychology lab?
Wundt
A difficult task when words and colours are inconsistent.
The Stroop task
Task requiring two or more responses
Choice reaction time
Trained procedure to describe thoughts and experiences.
Analytic introspection
This module involves visual movement perception.
Medial temporal cortex MT
Subcortical structure involved in memory formation.
Hippocampus
Transformation of environmental stimulus into electrical signal
Transduction
Impairment in recognizing faces.
Prosopagnosia
Subcortical area involved in processing emotional stimuli:
Amygdala
Chemical messengers that traverse the synapse
Neurotransmitter
Measures brain activity based on hemoglobin molecules.
fMRI
Brain area serves higher cognitive functions such as executive planning.:
frontal lobe, cerebral cortex, Prefrontal Cortex
A subcortical area that transmits sensory information to the cortex.
Thalamus
Cortical lobe involved in basic visual processing
Occipital lobe
Type of neuron that receives environmental input:
Sensory Neuron (photoreceptors)
This approach states that the mind processes information through a sequence of stages.
information -process approach
This physiological measure has excellent temporal resolution.
Electroencephalography (EEG) (Event-related potential (ERP)
Objects moving in the same direction are grouped together:
Common Fate.
Green dots form the number 74
Similarity.
This heuristic can lead to errors when objects are occluded:
Common Region.
The heuristic that explains why infants might find fireworks confusing:
Familiarity
Processing that begins with information from the senses:
Bottom-up processing
Basic features of the RBC model
Geons (volumetric primitives 3D) 36 total, rectangles, pyramids
This effect demonstrates the basic features in the FIT model:
pop-out effect (tilt, line ends, movement, color).
Discuss a prediction of the RBC model of object construction.:
You recognize the object as long as geons are present and can be discriminated.
What are the two modules of the brain for visual processing?
Ventral (extends from temporal lobe) and Dorsal pathway (extends from the parietal lobe).
The Pop Out effect is found in what cognitive experiment?
It is found in the FIT (feature Integration theory).
What cortical structure involves auditory processing?
The Primary auditory cortex
What cortical area responds maximally to faces?
Fusiform face area (FFA) in the temporal lobe
