Gre Psych- Difficult Concepts

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Gestalt Principles(6)

Back 1

1. closure
2. proximity
3. good continuation
4. symetry
5. constancy
6. minimum principle
The ideal Gestalt beauty- SYMETRIC facial features, not much makeup (MINIMALIST), wearing rose colored classes but can still see the world's colors for what they actually are (color CONSTANCY), rings on her fingers and a bracelet on her nearby wrist (PROXIMITY=grouping together obj that are close by each other) and "she completes him" (CLOSURE=completing incomplete obj). In identifying all of the aforementioned qualities of the Gestalt beauty, the male Gestaltist might be prone to create a detailed idea of what she is like based on his expectations rather than what is seen (GOOD CONTINUATION).

Front 2

Wertheimer

Back 2

-founded gestalt psych
-came up with the phi phenomenon (we percieve blinking neon lights as moving)

Front 3

Swets

Back 3

-theory of signal detection= subjects detect stimuli not only because they can but also be/c they want to (which can lead to response bias)
-developed ROC curves, which indicate a subject's sensitivity to a stimulus

Front 4

Theories of focused auditory attention

Back 4

Theories of focused auditory attention differ in terms of where the convergence of info occurs:
Broadbent’s filter theory= early (message processed only on basis of physical characteristics); used dichotic listening task (simultaneous presentation of digits to both ears).
Triesman’s attenuation (reduction) theory= later; hierarchical; physical and semantic processing occurs; *most supported*
Deutsh & Deutsh=latest; all messages are fully processed without regard for relevance or meaning

Front 5

What are the two types of semantic memory?

Back 5

1. semantic feature comparison model (smith,shoben, rips)
2. spreading activation model (loftus and collins)

Front 6

Tolman

Back 6

cognitive maps

Front 7

McClelland and Rummelhart

Back 7

brain processes info using parallel distributed processing