PSYC 351B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Briey, Thalamus, Visual Search
10 Mar 2016
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Name and describe the branch of psychology that was in uenced by functionalism; Describe the differences between james, wundt, donders and ebbinghaus; procedures, results/conclusions, contribution. James: observed himself, wrote rst psych textbook, thinking, consciousness, memory, reasoning, imagination, perception, attention. Wundt: analytic introspection (describe stimuli and thought process); combining stimuli to make experience; rst psych lab. Donders: simple vs choice reaction time (crt - st = 1/10th second > decision. Ebbinghaus: measured savings to measure forgetting; forgetting rapid in rst 1-2 days; quantitative measure of a mental process. There is a toy chest w/ blue and red marbles and green and yellow blocks in it. Someone accidentally dropped a green marble and a black marble. Describe and draw treisman"s feature integration model: green more dif cult than black because there are other green blocks to distract the searcher, object > preattentive stage *analyze into features* > focused attention stage *combine features* > perceptions.
