Psyc 310 Exam # 1 Study Guide Chapters: 1-4Chapter 1 What is the importance of research on simple and choice reaction times in the context of cognitive processing?What were the similarities and differences in the contributions to psychology (Behaviorism) made by Watson and Skinner? How did Behaviorism influence the field of Cognitive Psychology?What were some of the contributing factors to the shif from behaviorism to cognitive psychology and the return to study of the “mind?”How did Tolman’s rat maze suggest a cognitive process different from strict conditioning?Chapter 2What are the differences between fMRI, PET, and EEG/ERP imaging techniques? Advantages/disadvantages of each?What are the parts of a neuron (to the extent listed in the textbook), and how do they contribute the facilitation of signals being passed from one neuron to the next?What is the evidence for feature detector neurons, and how do they contribute to the “neural code?” What is the difference between Specificity Coding and Distributed Coding?Broadly, what are the roles of the temporal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, and frontal lobe inregards to perception?As described in the book, what are some of the brain “areas” localized for specific functions?- Remember that despite a certain amount of localization, most processing ofen involves a network of distributed processing across the brain.Chapter 3How do bottom-up and top-down processes contribute to your depth perception? Language perception?Describe the Recognition-by-Components theory (Biederman, 1987). What is the principle of componential recovery?What are the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization discussed in the book?How do physical regularities and semantic regularities in the world impact our perception? Give examples.What do studies with Greebles tell us about brain plasticity?Where are the “what” and “where” pathways of perception in the brain, and give an example ofhow we know what they are responsible for.Give an example of double dissociation in perception.What are mirror neurons? What have they been proposed to be involved with in regard to monkey behavior? human behavior?*Note that there is some evidence they exist in humans, but their existence is most strongly supported in non-human primates.Chapter 4How have various dichotic listening tasks informed theories on early, intermediate, and late-selection models of language processing?What do the results of the low-load vs. high-load flanker compatibility task tell us about cognitive resources?Why does the Stroop Effect occur?What does Schneider and Shiffrin’s (1977) study on divided attention suggest about learning and controlled vs. automatic processing?What role does masking play in change detection? What is inattention blindness?What are some bottom-up and top-down determinants of eye movement in visual perception?What is feature integration theory, and what is some of the evidence supporting it?How do autistic and non-autistic observers differ in their perception of a scene involving eye contact and human
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