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Introspection -benefits
defined what was allowed in the science of psychology TERM 2
Introspection -limitation
DEFINITION 2 descriptive, but which one was right? extremely variable from person to person progress is slow results difficult to verify TERM 3
Behaviorism -benefits
DEFINITION 3 eliminate the mind as a topic of study study directly observable behavior TERM 4
von Helmholtz
DEFINITION 4 interested in perception and neural impulses measured neural conductance speed TERM 5
James
DEFINITION 5 proposed functionalism multicomponent memory system principles of psychology
Wundt
structuralist experience is determine by combining elements of experience relies on introspection TERM 7
Titcher
DEFINITION 7 promoted structuralism TERM 8
von Ebbinghaus
DEFINITION 8 contemporary of Wundt developed method for studying forgetting as function of time -found that you remember a lot up until 2 days but after that the saving percent eventually plateau. TERM 9
Watson
DEFINITION 9 "Little Albert" experience Behaviorism TERM 10
Skinner
DEFINITION 10 interested in determining the relation between stimuli children learn through Operant condition children imitate speech they hear
Behavioral methods
most common measure REACTION TIME AND ACCURACY TERM 17
Single Cell -benefits
DEFINITION 17 direct observation good temporal resolution TERM 18
Single Cell -limits
DEFINITION 18 You are putting a hole in your brain only limited number of cells at once TERM 19
EEG -benefits
DEFINITION 19 good resolution fairly cheap TERM 20
EEG -limits
DEFINITION 20 poor localization
PET
radioactive glucose in bloodstream which indicates metabolic activity measure of blood flow TERM 22
PET -benefits
DEFINITION 22 function TERM 23
PET -limitations
DEFINITION 23 radioactive poor spatial temporal resolution TERM 24
fMRI -benefits
DEFINITION 24 not radioactive good resolution combine with MRI to show structures measures blood flow TERM 25
fMRI -limits
DEFINITION 25 poor resolution
Spinal cord
capable of autonomous function TERM 32
Hypothalamus
DEFINITION 32 controls elemental bodily functions and drive body temp hunger sexual function TERM 33
Cerebral cortex
DEFINITION 33 outside of the brain that underlie higher cognition, memory, and emotion TERM 34
Hippocampus
DEFINITION 34 long-term memory TERM 35
Amygdala
DEFINITION 35 processes emotional stimuli
Occipital lobes
multiple basic visual processing areas TERM 37
Temporal lobes
DEFINITION 37 under the frontal lobe primary auditory cortex high level visual processing TERM 38
Parietal lobes
DEFINITION 38 top of brain behind frontal lobe primary somatosensory cortex visuospatial processing TERM 39
Frontal lobe
DEFINITION 39 primary motor cortex TERM 40
Pre-frontal cortex
DEFINITION 40 attention planning interpersonal and emotional behaviors
Cones + 3 types
need more incoming light and sensitive to different wavelengths of light contributes to color perception 3 types: S-cone = blue M-cone = green L-cone = red ALL have different pigments TERM 47
Distributed
coding
DEFINITION 47 coding in which information that constitutes a concept is spread amongst a number of constituent representations TERM 48
Lateral Inhibition
DEFINITION 48 information integrated in the ganglion cells of optic nerves results in enhancement of the edges of an object visual system emphasizes change in environment TERM 49
Feature integration theory
DEFINITION 49 bottom up features are first analyzed then combined to results in perception of an object The Binding project TERM 50
Recognition by Components
DEFINITION 50 bottom up happens early in perceptual process 3-d shapes (geons)
Gestalt approach
top down basic idea: the whole is better than sum part of it proximity similarity good continuation people with agnosia has a problem with this TERM 52
Feature maps
DEFINITION 52 bound by focal attention to a location in the master map "attentive stage" TERM 53
Master map
DEFINITION 53 codes where features are located, but not which features are located where TERM 54
Agnosia
DEFINITION 54 deficit in recognizing a visually presented object TERM 55
Early Selection
DEFINITION 55 even when own name is called in other channel, only 33% of subjects hear it
