Summary PSY 1013 Exam 1 Study Guide

Exam 2 Study Guide Ch’s 4, 5, 6, & 7

Ch 4
 Define sensation and perception
 What is the pathway of light through the eye and to the visual cortex?
 What is the spectrum of visible light from shortest to longest wavelength?
 What are the specialized cells in the retina?
 What is the blindspot?
 What is the fovea?
 What is the pathway of sound through the ear and to the auditory cortex?
 What is the range of sound we hear?
 What are the theories of pitch perception?
 What is Weber’s Law?
 What is the just noticeable difference?
 What is the absolute threshold?
 What is selective attention?
 What is visual agnosia?
 How many tastes are we sensitive to?
 How do our sense of taste and sense of smell work together?
 What is the vestibular sense? (Hint: it deals with my story about being spun around in a chair)
 What is sensory adaptation?
 What is Gestalt psychology?
 What is top-down vs bottom-up processing?
 How do we distinguish depth? What are monocular and binocular cues for depth-perception?
 What is binocular or retinal disparity?
 What is the phi phenomenon?

Ch. 5

 What is consciousness?
 What is the circadian rhythm?
o Which hormone is involved?
 What does sleep look like?
o What are the stages?
o What classifies each stage of sleep?
o How are the different sleep disorders related to each of these stages?
 More generally what are the sleep disorders and how are they treated?
o How do we study sleep?
 What are the three theories of dreaming discussed in class?
 What are the different classifications of drugs? Which drugs are in which category?
o How do those drugs work in the nervous system?
 The devil’s in the details. Go into depth on each of these bullet points.



Ch. 6