PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Visual Agnosia, Akinetopsia, Digestion
18 Sep 2020
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Change blindness: difficulty detecting obvious scene changes when eyes are moving, lights or flickering or when watching a video. Synesthesia: people experience cross-modal sensation, run in the family, gene that cross connect brain areas is expressed in different parts of brain. Blindness heightened touch, reorganization of visual cortex. Motion blindness: unable to perceive smooth motion. Visual agnosia: object recognition deficit, damage to higher visual cortical areas. Blindsight: ability to respond to visual information without consciously seeing it: damage to area v1. Process of acquiring through experience new info or behaviors. New neurons grow even in the adult brain, especially areas of the brain involved in learning. Respondent behavior: uncontrolled stimuli are associated, response is automatic. Operant conditioning: association between a response and consequences is learned. Acquisition of mental info that guides behavior. The process we learn by association through. Operant conditioning- associate a response with its consequence. Biologically significant stimulus that produces automatic response.
