PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Demand Characteristics, Stroop Effect, Change Blindness
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This review sheet lists the terms and concepts you should know for the exam, grouped by lecture and chapter. All the exam questions will come from topics listed on this review sheet. Introspectionism & problems, behaviorism & problems, cognitive approach & 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. Subjective or illusory contours (e. g. , pac-men creating a triangle illusion). Views of perception: nativist (knowledge is built-in) vs. empiricist (emphasizes learning). Monocular cues: linear perspective, shape/texture gradients, relative size and height, interposition, Shadows, atmospheric blurring, accommodation, motion cues (such as parallax, kinetic depth effect). Experience dependent plasticity and greeble study (pages 73-74). Transduction (convert energy or chemicals to action potentials) Neural coding (code the stimulus for quantitative and qualitative features) Parts of the eye: cornea, lens, retina, blindspot, optic nerve. Neuron, dendrites, soma (cell body), axons, synapses, neurotransmitters, vesicles.
