PSYC 2014 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stroop Effect, Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness
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Eeg: an observer is normally lateralized for language. While blindfolded he must say the name of an object placed in his left hand. The corpus callosum more important for a brain that is lateralized than for a brain that is not lateralized. In a lateralized brain complex cognitive capacities (like language) are only supported on one side of the brain. He is presented with an array consisting of 5 rows of 3 letters apiece and cued to repeat back the letters from the second row. We infer that ___ letters were recorded in john"s sensory store at the time the cue was presented. A reading response occurs to the stimulus: in a test of the visual sensory store a random mixture of letters and numbers is presented along with a signal indicating that the subject should report only the letters. Because information in the sensory store is encoded pre-categorically, w/o being interpreted for meaning.
