PSYC 230 CHANON STUDY UPDATED GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔fmri con - ✔✔poor resolution for temporal and poor timing
✔✔mri pro - ✔✔Uses magnetic properties of hydrogen to take image of brain structure
Good pic of brain
✔✔mri con - ✔✔can't measure brain activity/function
✔✔tolman - ✔✔-refutes behaviorism
-cognitive map is stored in your head meaning that there is more than just outside
observations going on
✔✔donders - ✔✔-1st cog psych experiment
-reaction time/decision making and how it relates to cognition and what is going on
inside the mind based on behavior on the outside
✔✔ebbinghaus - ✔✔forgetting and memory
how much savings there was when relearning a list based on how long you waited to
relearn
✔✔types of long term memory - ✔✔explicit and implicit
✔✔types of explicit memory - ✔✔episodic and semantic
✔✔types of implicit memory - ✔✔procedural, priming, classical conditioning, and non-
associative(habituation and sensitization)
✔✔martha farah visual imagery shares aspects with visual perception - ✔✔people who
were primed to imagine a letter and then shown that letter were faster to respond than
those who were shown a diff letter than imagined
✔✔action potentials: as strength ______, frequency of action potentials _________ -
✔✔increase, increase
✔✔pylyshyn's uses - ✔✔abstract symbols, sentence, equation, not spatial layout
✔✔type of processing that sensation is - ✔✔bottom up
✔✔type of processing that perception is - ✔✔top down
✔✔transffer appropriate processing - ✔✔matching task at encoding/retrieval
, ✔✔state dependent learning is about matching ________ - ✔✔mood
✔✔stm duration - ✔✔15-20 seconds
✔✔a person with hippocampal damage cannot - ✔✔remember who visited her
✔✔how to eliminate primacy effect - ✔✔anything that blocks ability to move items into
LTM
✔✔echoic memory has _________ duration than iconic - ✔✔longer
✔✔sensory memory characteristics - ✔✔-decays rapidly
-decay varies by modality
-large capacity
✔✔how many items can be stored in LTM: luck and vogel - ✔✔4
✔✔memory associated with events - ✔✔episodic
✔✔memory associated with facts - ✔✔semantic
✔✔lexical priming using ambiguous words - ✔✔context exerts influence after all
meanings have been assessed
✔✔mental lexicon is represented by - ✔✔morphemes
frequently used words are more readily available
semantic connections
✔✔mcgurk effect - ✔✔an error in perception that occurs when we misperceive sounds
because the audio and visual parts of the speech are mismatched.
yanny or laurel
✔✔phonems in word boot - ✔✔3
✔✔endogenous - ✔✔voluntary attention
✔✔exogenous - ✔✔reflexive attention
✔✔stroop paradigm - ✔✔longest response times when color and name differed
✔✔what stage of filtering in broadbents theory - ✔✔before semantic
✔✔mental lexicon includes - ✔✔orthographics, semantic, and syntactic
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔fmri con - ✔✔poor resolution for temporal and poor timing
✔✔mri pro - ✔✔Uses magnetic properties of hydrogen to take image of brain structure
Good pic of brain
✔✔mri con - ✔✔can't measure brain activity/function
✔✔tolman - ✔✔-refutes behaviorism
-cognitive map is stored in your head meaning that there is more than just outside
observations going on
✔✔donders - ✔✔-1st cog psych experiment
-reaction time/decision making and how it relates to cognition and what is going on
inside the mind based on behavior on the outside
✔✔ebbinghaus - ✔✔forgetting and memory
how much savings there was when relearning a list based on how long you waited to
relearn
✔✔types of long term memory - ✔✔explicit and implicit
✔✔types of explicit memory - ✔✔episodic and semantic
✔✔types of implicit memory - ✔✔procedural, priming, classical conditioning, and non-
associative(habituation and sensitization)
✔✔martha farah visual imagery shares aspects with visual perception - ✔✔people who
were primed to imagine a letter and then shown that letter were faster to respond than
those who were shown a diff letter than imagined
✔✔action potentials: as strength ______, frequency of action potentials _________ -
✔✔increase, increase
✔✔pylyshyn's uses - ✔✔abstract symbols, sentence, equation, not spatial layout
✔✔type of processing that sensation is - ✔✔bottom up
✔✔type of processing that perception is - ✔✔top down
✔✔transffer appropriate processing - ✔✔matching task at encoding/retrieval
, ✔✔state dependent learning is about matching ________ - ✔✔mood
✔✔stm duration - ✔✔15-20 seconds
✔✔a person with hippocampal damage cannot - ✔✔remember who visited her
✔✔how to eliminate primacy effect - ✔✔anything that blocks ability to move items into
LTM
✔✔echoic memory has _________ duration than iconic - ✔✔longer
✔✔sensory memory characteristics - ✔✔-decays rapidly
-decay varies by modality
-large capacity
✔✔how many items can be stored in LTM: luck and vogel - ✔✔4
✔✔memory associated with events - ✔✔episodic
✔✔memory associated with facts - ✔✔semantic
✔✔lexical priming using ambiguous words - ✔✔context exerts influence after all
meanings have been assessed
✔✔mental lexicon is represented by - ✔✔morphemes
frequently used words are more readily available
semantic connections
✔✔mcgurk effect - ✔✔an error in perception that occurs when we misperceive sounds
because the audio and visual parts of the speech are mismatched.
yanny or laurel
✔✔phonems in word boot - ✔✔3
✔✔endogenous - ✔✔voluntary attention
✔✔exogenous - ✔✔reflexive attention
✔✔stroop paradigm - ✔✔longest response times when color and name differed
✔✔what stage of filtering in broadbents theory - ✔✔before semantic
✔✔mental lexicon includes - ✔✔orthographics, semantic, and syntactic
