Psychology Exam 2a
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Duplex Theory of Vision | Cones and color vision, Rods and Nightime vision |
| Parvocellular | one cone per ganglion cell, pattern and form |
| Magnocellular | many rods to one ganglion cell motion and depth |
| Young-Helmholtz Theory | color vision has three types of cones, one with red, one with green, one with blue |
| Opponent Processing | psychological experience of the hue depends on the balance of green/red and blue/yellow |
| dichotic presentation | speaking one thing in one ear and another thing in another ear |
| cocktail party effect | one thing getting your attention in a midst of babbling |
| implicit attention | They threw stones at the "bank" bank can mean two different things depending on whether it was unconciously heard in money or river. |
| Strength of CR | response amplitude, probability of response, response latency |
| Trial and Error Learning | Operant learning is really just |
| shaping | this uses successive approximations |
| behavioral contrast | getting payed $10 to do something, then only getting payed $1 to do the same thing. |
| partial reinforcement effect | harder to extinguish a response acquired by partial reinforcement rather than by continuous reinforcement |
| proactive interference | the memorization preceding the thing needed to be memorized disrupts the memorization - List A disrupts list B |
| retroactive interference | the memorization following the thing needed to be memorized disrupts memorization - List C disrupts list B |
| rote memorization | repeating things over and over again |
| maintanence rehearsal | used to keep something in working memory |
| depth of processing, role of understanding | two factors that influence the acquisition and storage of memory |
| ebbinghaus | the guy who mapped out the forgetting curve |
| misinformation effect | insertion of Memory B into memory A |
| operant, classical, observational, habituation | types of learning |
| motion parrallax, binocular disparity, texture gradient, interposition, relative size, light and shadow | 6 cues of depth perception |
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