PSYCH 2H03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward C. Tolman, B. F. Skinner, Agnosia
3 Feb 2020
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Ames room- trapezoidal room; creates an optical illusion with one large and one small person. Apperceptive agnosia- cannot recognize by shape, can"t copy drawings, often involve prosopagnosia". Associative agnosia- can copy but unaware of what it is; cannot assign meaning to objects, difficulty translating visual infra into words. The balloon story- idea that understanding leads to better memory. Found that when context was given before the story was presented, more was remembered from the story when asked to recite ideas from it. Behaviourism- behaviourism conscious experience is subjective and therefore unreliable and unverifiable. Asks how behaviour changes based on a response or stimulus (reward or punishment). Bigram detectors- detectors for letter pairs is added to account for the effect of wellformedness. The detectors for these letter pairs have high activation levels at the start so they don"t need much additional input to reach their threshold making the corresponding letter combinations easy to recognize.
