PSY 200 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Review Questions You will need to be able to answer these questions Remember to check the book since some questions will come from the chapters Q 1 What was good about introspection Q 2 What are the 4 lobes of the brain Q 3 How are faces processed Q 4 Which part of a neuron sends output to other neurons Q 5 Is signaling between neurons chemical or electrical Q 6 What is dichotic listening Q 7 In the Stroop task which part of the brain should be suppressed with attention Q 8 What type of theory is Gestalt Q 9 For those with visual neglect they are able to pay attention to both sides of imagined space but only one side of physical space True or False Q 10 When a neuron is highly stimulated is it firing more rapidly or more often Q 11 If a cue indicated the location of a subsequent target that cue is called what Q 12 Where are the most cones in your eyes located Q 13 Color perception relies on the unique combinations produced by the firing of all 3 types of cones This is called Q 14 If a color word is placed above a color patch and they don t match will the Stroop effect occur Q 15 In which type of search do the number of distractors not matter These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Q 16 Recognition by components theory has the advantage that Q 17 Which method shows causation between brain function and behavior A 1 It was a systematic attempt to observe mental processes A 2 Frontal occipital parietal and temporal A 3 Configurally A 4 Axon A 5 Chemical A 6 Listening to two different audios one in each ear A 7 The wordform area A 8 Top down theory A 9 False A 10 Rapidly A 11 Valid A 12 Fovea A 13 Distributed processing A 14 Yes A 15 Feature search A 16 It explains how we identify objects at different angles A 17 TMS Benefits and limitations of different measures used to study cognition e g introspection observable behavior Structuralism behaviorism Transcendental method Little Albert study Latent learning rat maze study Difference between a hypothesis and a prediction Definition and parts of a neuron synaptic transmission Properties of an action potential threshold all or none law General function of different brain regions Lobes of the brain Spatial and temporal resolution of brain methodologies fMRI patient work TMS ERP EEG single cell recording What is each of the above methods measuring e g electrical activity blood flow behavior Single vs double dissociations Relationship between motor and sensory homunculus and the amount of cortical space devoted to each body part pp 49 50 Definition of receptive field Basic pathway of visual information in the brain Rods and cones and differences between them and their distribution on fovea Definition of the fovea Definition of distributed coding and how color is perceived Definition of lateral inhibition and how it produces edge enhancement Mach bands illusion Binding problem Central idea of feature integration recognition by components and Gestalt theories of object recognition View invariance Evidence used to support each of the above theories Feature maps Master map of locations Bottom up vs Top down processes Configural holistic recognition in face perception Fusiform face area Change blindness Repetition priming Dichotic listening shadowing and results of dichotic listening studies Models of early and late selection Evidence for each of the models Parietal lobe and neglect Factors affecting people s ability to divide their attention Stroop effect and conditions in which Stroop is minimized Cell phones texting and driving Neural consequences and control of attention Feature vs conjunctive search Illusory conjunction Executive control general resource Remember not everything listed can be found in our notes read the book