BIOLOGY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pseudoword, Feature Integration Theory, Pattern Recognition
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Introspectionism & problems, behaviorism & problems, cognitivism & computational view of mind, information processing. Dependent variables, independent variables, main effects and interactions, interpreting graphs. Mental chronometry, simple reaction time, choice reaction time, donder"s subtraction method & problems. Problem with confirming evidence, eliminating alternative explanations, huppert & piercy amnesia experiments, encoding, storage & retrieval, falsifying storage explanation. The paradox of depth perception (paradoxical correspondence), how the visual system recovers depth, monocular vs. binocular depth cues. Resting potential, action potential, threshold, all-or-none, propagation, refractory period. Receptive field, firing rate, excitation, inhibition, center-surround, m-cells/p-cells,. Cerebral cortex and lobes, primary visual cortex, simple/complex/hypercomplex cells, what/where (ventral/dorsal, temporal/parietal), pet scanning, kohler experiment. Feature theory, evidence for features, visual search, pandemonium model, caricatures, problems with feature theory. Structural descriptions, rbc theory, geons, non-accidental properties, evidence for rbc, problems with. Signal detection theory: signal, noise, sensitivity, bias, hits, misses, correct rejections, false alarms, bias/payoff effects. Word superiority effect, pseudoword superiority effect, interactive activation model, activation, inhibition.
