PSYC 305 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gestalt Psychology, Artificial Neural Network, Optical Illusion
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305 Exam 1 Study Guide Spring 2018
History, Neuroanatomy, Methodology
Sensory Memory, Pattern Recognition, Attention
Radvansky & Ashcraft Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
Additional articles: Driver & Frakowiak, 2001; Harris et al., 2000; Banich, 2009
models/tasks/vocab/people
Chapter 1
History of cognitive psychology
Assumptions of cognitive psychology
Chapter 2
Methods for studying cognitive psychology—RT, accuracy, EEG, ERP, neural net
models, imaging techniques, genetics
Neurons
Neuroanatomy
Lobes, cortices—frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal, cingulate
Other structures--corpus callosum, thalamus
Laterality
Chapter 3
Vision structures
Visual sensory memory (iconic)
Visual illusions
Sperling’s span of apprehension
Whole vs. partial report
Persistence, decay, erasure/masking
Gestalt perception
Pattern recognition models—
Template, prototypes, feature detection, geons
Agnosia’s
Hearing structures
Auditory sensory memory (echoic)
Span of apprehension (Crowder et al., Darwin et al.)
Persistence, decay, erasure/masking
Pattern recognition models
Differences vision vs. audition
Chapter 4
Types of attention processes
Arousal, orienting, spotlight, selective, automatic versus controlled
Posner’s spatial cuing
Treisman’s visual search
Shadowing tasks
Selective attention models: pre vs. early vs. late selection
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