Cognitive Psychology Test 1

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Selfridge Pandemonium Model

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Example of the Demons on the interet
1-Image Demon
2-Feature Demon
3-Cognitive Demon
4-Decison Demon

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Neurological Support for Pandemonium Model

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Specific Neurons dedicated to perform processing.
*Hubel and Wiesl

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Automatic Processing Properties

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The activation of a sequence of nodes that is always active in response to input confirgation.

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An example of how attention is a limited capacity resource?

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Studying for a test, learning something knew you can't learn anymore

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Pop Out VS Controlled Attention Experiment

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Pop-Out is straight forward
Controlled Attention Experiment you look at one item at a time.

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What brain circuits are involved in processing a visual world?

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Visual Cortex

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Late Selection

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The content in both ears analyzed at the same time but words in the unattended ear cannot access consciousness

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One model of object recognition that is bottom up only?
What are basic units of which objects are composed?

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1-Brain Lesions
2-Geons

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Top Down Processing
How bias change intepration?

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Start with your expectation based on your knowledge.
The competition can be biased normally toward one in the current visual field.

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Advantages and Disadvantage of Automaticity

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+
Does not interfere with other processes.
-
You are unaware
Without Intention

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Automaticity

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Practicing over and over do you become better at it.

Doing things with low level details required.

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What is your ideal career and how can Cog Psych be relevant to it?

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Clinical Psychologist
-1 Understand how the brain works
-2 Certain mental illness can be treated through some cog work.

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Interference

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Bringing memory to old knowledge and helping speed it up.
Helps learning and memory performance.

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Overt Attention

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Shifting Attention with moving eyes to an object.

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Covert Attention

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Shift in attention not accompained by head or eye movements.

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What happens during McGurk Effect?

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You need to see the mouth move while you are listening to the person speak.

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Context Effects

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Fill in missing words.

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Blindsight

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You can't see but you can understand some things counciously still.

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3 Levels of Object Recognition

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Low, Middle, High

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When you see an object why is bottom up processing alone an insufficient explanation?
Why does top up help?

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It helps because you use past experiences in interpreting things.

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Selective Attention

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Requires people to pay attention to certain kinds of info, while ignoring information.

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Controlled Processing Properties

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Rehersal
Improve Memory

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Selective Attention
An example from the last 48 hours?

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You use visual search and you try to focus on one exact thing.

Ex- Looking for something on a crowd desk.

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Divided Attention

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You try to pay attention to two or more simutaneaus messages, responding appropriately to each message.

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Dichotic Listening

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An experiment test done where you listen to different things in different ears.

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Shadowing

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Repeating what you heard in the dichotic listening test.

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Cocktail Party Effect

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You hear your name is a different conversation.

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Information Processing Model

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input to sensory
sensory to short term
short term to long term
long term back up to sensory

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Describe 1 example of hemispheric Spec.

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Left- Analytic see trees
Right Holistic see forest

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Class Experiment(TAH)
What happened to RT and errors?
What does this say about divided attention?

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As the tasks got more difficult the reaction time increased and so did the amount of errors.

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Propsopagnosia

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Can not see faces, this affects the occiptol lobe

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3 Historical Figures and How they approached the subject?

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Chomsky-Looked at Lanuage like Math
Wihelm Wund- Introspection
Herman Ebbinghaus- Links memory assocations, forgetting curve

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Explain how catergotical perception and phonemes support the speech specific approach?

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We can use consistent relabilty speech.
Features to form phoneme categories.

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Coarticulation

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Mouth Muscles

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Why is speech segmentration hard?

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Because of word boundaries and corarticulation.

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Phoneme

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Basic Unit of spoken lanuage.
Letters that make sounds.

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Agnosia

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A failure to recognize objects.

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Face Recognition

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Holistic

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Change Blindness

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Failure to notice a change in an object or scene.

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Inattentional Blindness

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Failure to notice a completely visable object.

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Illusory Contours

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The word is recognized even though most of the features of the component letters are absent.

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Feature Analysis Theory

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Very simple pattern of elements.
Like legos.
pluses:
Feature descriptions capable in bottom up processing.

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Gesalt

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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

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Recognition by components Models

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Geon 3D form
25 Possibilities
Break them done to conjunctions

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Hierachial Coding

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Each level represents a different kind of info is "passed up" to the next level of complexity.

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Template Theory

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Stored model of categorizable patterns.
Problem:too many templates
Plus: Simple

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Bottom Up Processing

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Data Driven Processing
Start with input process it more and more until intepretion is made
+ Edges and intersections critical
- Can't account for context effects

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Capagras Syndrome

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Can recognize someone but thinks are an imposter.
Emotional System Disrupted
Amydala Damaged.

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Lesions and Examples

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Damage area in Brain
Example: Phineas Gage, Capgras, Stroke

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Cortical Magnification

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Greater sensitively is associated with the larger areas of cortical tissue.

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Cortical Topagraphy

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Cortical maps represent sensory and moter info in orderly manner.

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Basics Princples of Brain Functioning

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Contralterization
Hemisphere Specization
Cortical Topography
Cortical magnification

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Hemispheric Specialization

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Different functions or actions tend to be predominant in one hemisphere.

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Contralaterization

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The receptive and control centers for one side of the body are in opposite hemisphere of the brain
*Left side of brain controls right side of body

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Subcortical Structures Involved in memory

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Hippocampus-Learning memory
Amygolaid- Emotion

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4 Lobes of the Cortex

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Frontal, Partiental, Tempral, Occipital

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Key people in cog psychology

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Wundt, James, Ebbinghaus, Watson, Skinner, Bartlett, Chomsky

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3 Everyday activities that involve cognition

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Driving, Tests, cooking

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3 Applications of cog psych for different careers

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Behavioral Therapy: eating disorders, depression, stress, ptsd,
Social Development and Abnormal: are effected by cog psych.
-Lanuage control over thoughts not

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Introspection

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Carefully trained observes would systemically analyze their own sensations and report them as objectively possible
Wihelm Wendt

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Memory

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Sensory Memory
Short Term
Long Term
Working

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Cognition

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Mental activity describes acqustion, storage transformation and the use of knowledge.

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Wihelm Wundt

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Germany
Introspection

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Willams James

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"Arm Chair" Psychologist
-Wrote Prinicples of Psychology

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Herman Van Ebbinghaus

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Germany
Memory associations
Forgetting Curve
Objective Measurements
Links to remember different things

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John Watson

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John Hopkins University
Behaviorism

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B.F. Skinner

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Operant Condtioning
Verbal Behavior

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Frederic Bartlett

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England
Memory errors, meaningful material
Memory is constructive

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Noam Chomsky

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General Linguistics
Symbol Manipulation
Looked at lanuage like math
Syntax

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Cognitive Revolution

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Late 1950s 1960s

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What kinds of Brain Imaging measures are used

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Fmir, Pet, Erp, Meg Tmj