PSYC 309 Study Guide - Final Guide: Psych
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Ater reading chapter 4 part 1 and the feb 4 lecture students should be able to: Outline the principles of top-down and botom-up patern recogniion and how they are implemented in the brain. Describe the basic approach of the gestalt psychologists as a historical phenomenon: (familiarize yourself with this secion if you didn"t study it in psych 100/101, but there is no need to memorize the gestalt laws) Idenify 4 major theories of botom-up processing and supporing evidence described in the igures. Evaluate these theories in the light of informaion from contemporary neuroscience (from class materials) Explain how speech understanding, the word-superiority efect, and reading provide examples of top-down processing.
