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60 Cards in this Set
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pointillism
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tiny brush dots make up entire image
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sensation
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gathering sensory information from the environment (the dots)
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perception
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mental organization and interpretation of sensory information (the picture)
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sweet taste buds are: (shape?)
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round...like pizza
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salty taste buds are: (shape?)
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isocles triangles
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Example of a sweet taste
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sucrose-table sugar
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ex. of sour taste
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asborbic acid- vitamin C
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ex. of bitter taste
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quinine-tonic water
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The fifth taste is?
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Unami (soy sauce, steak) -yummy savory taste && Gjetost (norweigan cheese, sweet, caramemly, sharp)
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taste
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chemicals dissolved in salvia
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fungiform papillae
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little bumps that have taste buds in them
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vision
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photons of light
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audition
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sound waves (compressions of air)
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somatosensation
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pressure, temperature
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olfaction
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chemicals in the air
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Johannes Muller
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Doctrine of specific nerve ener3gies
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gesalt pyschologists
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the whole is more than the sum of its parts
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2 differences in perception:
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1) cultures differ 2) individual history differs
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rods
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sensitve, low acuity, no color
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cones
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less sensitive, high acuity, color
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Vision has ____ processing
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parallel
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dorsal stream
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rod-like (not color sensitive)
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ventral stream
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cone-like ( color/shape sensitive)
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Nast Lense study
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pritchard stabilized retinal image to fatigue feature detectors (humans have feature detectors. features are edges)
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A problem with features is
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adaptation studies reveal other features, such as motion
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configural recognition. faces:
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you look at the whole face, not the parts of it (thatcher illusion)
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perception is based on building blocks ( ______), but (_____) is critical
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features, arrangement
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While not paying attention, hearing your name out of all the chatter at a party is considered the:
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cock tail party effect
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While not paying attention and hearing familliar words is the
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stroop effect
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The gateway to consciousness is:
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attention
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Conserve and Restore view of sleep says:
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We sleep to conserve energy and to restore aspects of our physiology
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Memory consolidation view of of sleep says:
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We sleep to build better memories
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The "sleep to learn study" showed that
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learning was disrupted when REM sleep and dreaming were prevented
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electroencephalogram measures
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the different stages of sleep
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The fastest lines on the EEG occur when youre:
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awake
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REM sleep:
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rapid eye movement, hardest to wake people up, brain looks on an EEG the same as when someone is awake
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dreams come from:
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REM sleep
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most non REM sleep occurs: (later/early)
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early
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Freud said dreams are the:
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"roryal road to unconsciouness"
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manifest continent
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the candy coating (what you dream)
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latent content
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the nasty stuff (hiddent meaning)
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dream work
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change from latent to manifest
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activation synthesis hypothesis
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dreams reflect the aroused, activated state of the brain during REM sleep
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Franz Anton Mesmer is correlated with:
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hypnosis
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braid
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surgeon who wanted to develope an anesthetic
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hypnotic susceptibility
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a personality characteristic w 2 components: 1) suggestibility 2) absorption
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Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale
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helps find your hynotic susceptibility
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capacity of memory:
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how much is held?
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duration of memory:
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how long does it last?
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Iconic memory 2 parts:
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capacity and duration
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change "blindness":
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inability to notice changes from one scene to the next
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short term memory remembers
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4 items or less (100% recall) the ceiling is around 7 iteams (but can retain 9)
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chunk
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a meaningful unit of information or material,
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decay of memory in STM:
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you use it or lose it
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Craik's "Level of processing" theory
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processing during encoding affects how the memory is formed. deeper (sophisticated)
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Shallow level of processing:
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(physical aspects) what world looks like/what word sounds like
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Deep level of processing:
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(connections to other concepts) meaning of word how it relates to other concepts elaborate on material (eleborative rehearsal)
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Types of retrevial:
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recognition and recall
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recognition:
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material acts as a cue (multiple choice exam)
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recall:
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you reproduce material on your own (essay on exam)
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