PSYC 2000 : Exam #2 Study Guide
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Modules included on this exam: 7, 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31, 36, and 37. Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. 2. what are the two pathways for visual information after initial processing in the occipital cortex? process spatial locations. Dorsal pathway ( where pathway) terminates in the parietal lobe and. Ventral pathway ( what pathway) travels to the temporal lobe and is. Blind sight refers to the puzzling observation that some people with involved with object identification. 3. what is blind sight and how is it explained? damage to the primary visual cortex, which causes blindness, nevertheless can still show some visual ability. While verbally denying that they can see anything, they may nevertheless show a surprising ability to point to an object or turn their eyes to it. One explanation is that this ability is based on visual processing elsewhere in the brain.
