COGS 101B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychological Refractory Period, Fusiform Face Area, Falsifiability
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Short answer questions: answers may be more than one word. 2 per blank unless otherwise noted: a falsifiable model is/is not (circle one) desirable because allows others to verify findings/means there is a way to prove it wrong; it entails concrete, quantifiable predictions. Evidence for viewer-centered coordinate systems is that we"re faster at recognizing shapes when they"re the same orientation (or close) to the orientation at which we learned them. Free responses: in the first part of an experiment, a participant is shown 12 letters (4 letters each on 3 lines) at the same time and asked to report as many back as possible. 5 years old: do effortfully (count, draw lines), college: retrieve from memory. Logan"s instance theory of automaticity or the race model accepted 2. If bar and circle are used to test apparent motion, bar is perceived to cross over the circle.
