AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tachistoscope, Distributed Knowledge, Word Lists By Frequency

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Features: the small elements that result from the organized perception of form. Play a role in visual search of similar objects. Establishes similarities and differences between the what you see (like a dog) and other similar objects (like other dogs) A disruption in ability to judge how features are bound together. A stimulus is presented and then a door drops to hide the word. Puts a jumble of letters over top of the stimuli in order to hide the word and limit processing time. High frequency words are recognized faster than low frequency words. Viewing a word and then viewing it again. Primed words are recognized more accurately than unprimed words. Better recognition of letters presented within words compared to isolated letters or letters presented in a nonword. Probability how likely letter combinations are going to appear in english. Errors are also driven by probability you are more likely to recognize common letter combinations opposed to letters jumbled together (nonwords)