Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Far-Sightedness, Prosopagnosia, Agnosia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Mark Holden

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What are the causes (e. g. eyeball too long/short, lens hardened, etc) of each: retinal cells. List the differences between rods and cones (e. g. number, acuity, function ) Give an example of how multiple retinal cells combine to create a single feature that might be detected. Give examples of different broad types features. Are the processed in order (one after the other, serially) or are they processed all at once (in parallel): bottom-up models. Briefly describe the very basic idea of the model. Be able to define these laws , and give (or recognize) examples. Describe the study discussed in class by steven palmer (kitchen bread/mailbox) showing the effects of context. Define size constancy, lightness constancy, and color constancy. What sorts of visual stimuli are better at capturing attention: describe what we mean when we say that top-down perception involves heuristics. Briefly describe the object discrimination task and the location discrimination task used by ungerleider & mishkin.