Cognitive Psych Midterm

What is the big thing about short-term memory? 

It became working memory; and instead of a place it became a status 

Definition of empirical?

Systematic gathering of data that is observable

What is the seed of memory?

Hippocampus

Why is there no memory with self?

If you can’t remember anything, how do you know who you are? 

Using recognition by component, what are those things we call objects and blocks?

Genomes

What is face perception more dependent on?

Orientation

What did early studies of attention focus on more?

Dichotic listening

True/False: William Hartley said the only way to study conscious methods is through transcendental method

False, Immanuel Kant

Who was the working memory system proposed by?

Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch

Working memory plays a _________

Short-term memory system

What are the two system of facial recognition?

Emotional and cognitive

What is the emotional evaluator?

Amygdala

True/False: Hearing is the dominant sensory modality

False, Vision

3 parts of the human brain

Forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain

What part of the brain integrates the sensory system?

Hindbrain

What is another name for glial cells?

Glue cells

What are the 3 functions of glial cells?

Myelination, build nervous system in fetuses, repair things

What is the joint area of the axon and dendrite?

Synapse

What are the two forms of flow within neurons?

Chemical and Electrical

What are the two types of photoreceptors called?

Rodes and Cones

Where are all the cones located?

Fovea

Where is the relay system for sensory information located?

in the thalamus

What is the area in the thalamus primarily responsible for just vision called?

lateral genticulate nucleus (LGN)

True/False: The primary sensory projection areas are the nano points of arrival

True

True/False: an fMRI scan sees structures

False, neural activity

Speed reading is not reading faster it’s _______ more

inferring

You don’t want to speed read when things are ________ or _________

filled with details, too beautiful

What are some tools to help speed reading?

Looking for bold text and pictures

A person who suffers from ________ has normal vision but can’t recognize faces

Prosopagnosia

A person who can detect features in a display but can’t see these features are found together has

Integrative Agnosia

A person seems to be able to see objects, but they cannot seem to put these together to perceive the attacked object

Apperceptive Agnosia

_________ results from damage to the right part of the lobe and a person fails to notice or respond to stimuli on the left side of their body or environment

left neglect syndrome

______ occurs when a person suffering from brain damage can’t perceive motion

Akinetopsia

What is Capgras syndrome?

When a person sees a person they know and instead of believing it’s them, they think they are a well-disguised imposter

What is associative agnosia?

A person can see but cannot link what they see to their basic visual knowledge

What does ADHD stand for?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Where is the reticular activating system located?

Base of the brain

Object recognition (bottom up) is ________ while top-down is ________

data driven, concept driven

Features help us recognize an object by the __________

virtue of their parts

True/False: you have to disengage from your initial target first

True

The __________ is a system recognizes the patterns and designating the states it does

feature net

True/False: Words are easier to perceive than isolated letters

True, word superiority effect

In regard to hierarchy of cognition, what influences cognition and recognition?

Recency and privacy effect

True/False: When feature nets are activated, they can trigger a response from a higher-level detector and then it goes through the entire board

TRUE

Who was the recognition by component founded by?

McClelland and Rumelhart

True/False: New Point Dependent is a group that has a chance to identify at any level, at any angle

False, New Point Independent

The task of memory is _________

recognition

What is the fusiform face area what is it responsible for?

Where orientation occurs and in charge of facial recognition

What is late selection?

When distractors are selected out before they make it into consciousness. 

What is inattentional blindess?

the failure to notice obvious objects or events happening because your attention is elsewhere

____________ is an observers' inability to detect changes in scenes they're looking at directly

Change blindness

As for directions, people seem aware of distractors, but are influenced by them initially, what does this refer to?

early selection 

What is meant by concept limit capacity

How much priming can we actually do

True/False: Priming's not free. We must allocate resources

True

What is priming?

exposure to one stimulus influences the response to another

MATCHING

Alerting system; controls voluntary actions

Executive system; helps you disengage

(...) system; maintains awareness

maintains awareness - Alerting system

controls voluntary actions - Executive system

helps you disengage - (...) system

True/False: If two tasks are combined, they require more resources than you have. Divided attention will still succeed

False

What is the Stroop Effect?

when we have colors that are, we say, read the word, and you read the color instead.

4 differences between working memory and long term memory

1. Working memory is limited 

2. Working memory is enormous 

3. Working memory can be added to easily 

4. Working memory changes often

What is chunking and who was it proposed by?

breaking down large amounts of information into more manageable parts to make it easier to remember, understand, or process, George Miller

What are the two types of rehearsal?

Repetition and connection

What is the main thing witnesses pay attention to?

Whether you have a weapon