Psy 252 csu - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Stanley Hall () - ️️contributed to psychology's rapid growth established first research laboratory for psychology in America at John Hopkins University -Launched psychology's first psychological journal -Driving force in the creation of the American Psychological Association (APA) Wilhem Wundt () - ️️made psychology an independent discipline credited with being the founder of psychology 1879 - ️️birth of psychology Psychology according to Wundt - ️️the scientific st...

Feature Search - ️️Search for a target defined by a single attribute - If salient feature (different) number does not matter - If the feature is different enough, it becomes easier to find the target - Reaction Time for feature searches does not change with set size Monocular Depth Cues - ️️Represented in 2D and observed with one eye 1. Texture Gradient (closer, larger grains, farther apart, away - smaller grains, closer together) 2. Relative Size (closer - bigger, away - smaller)...

Eugenics - ️️Attempt to improve the human species by selective breeding (ex: Nazi's Aryan Race) - Genetic Stratification - messing with out traits, we as a society decide certain genes are unattractive etc. - Genetic engineering - getting into the business of changing genes (hair color, etc.) - Ex: Europeans flooded into the US after WWI - Eugenicists argued the high poverty, unemployment and crime among some immigrants proved genetically inferior - Led to immigration Restriction ...

imaging techniques - ️️- Postion Emission, PET (Positron Emission Tomography Scan, Radioactive glucose (sugar) - MRI: Studies brain anatomy -fMRI (functional MRI): Studies brain function Wilhelm Wundt () - ️️set up the first psychological laboratory in an apartment near the university at Leipzig, Germany; trained subjects in introspection. Subjects were asked to accurately record their cognitive reactions to simple stimuli - 1879 - 1st Successful formal psych lab - 1881 - 1st jou...

Pattern Recognition Study: Letter Search - ️️(Neiser article) Procedure: Shown block of letters -> select target letter and respond when found (reaction time) Trial: - 1st: feature dissimilar background - 2nd: feature similar background Results: - 1st: Faster - 2nd: Slower (detect and analyze features) Feature detectors operating at lower levels of the visual system detect features of incoming stimuli such as those shown in the center of this figure. Later in the perceptual s...

Carl Rogers () - ️️Humanistic psychologist - agreed with the main assumptions of Abraham Maslow, - For a person to "grow", they need: - an environment that provides them with genuineness (openness and self-disclosure) - acceptance (being seen with unconditional positive regard) - empathy (being listened to and understood) Eugenics - ️️Attempt to improve the human species by selective breeding (ex: Nazi's Aryan Race) - Genetic Stratification - messing with out traits, we ...

Wilhelm Wundt () - Answer-Made Psychology as independent discipline away from physiology - 1879 - 1st Successful formal psych lab - 1881 - 1st journal devoted to psych labs - new psych labs G. Stanley Hall () - Answer-American, was under Wilhelm Wundt - 1883 - 1st American lab @ John Hopkins - 1887 - 1st American psych journal - 1892 - American Psychiatric Association founded Structuralism - Answer-Edward Titchener (1892) - Task of psych is to analyze consciences to basic elements and ...

Top-down processing - ️️Context/Knowledge/Expectations. Quick educated guess. Could be wrong. Pareidolia is the perception of some specific image in an ambiguous stimulus array. Expectations create schemas- which are mental representations of what we know, and have come to expect, about the world. Can bias creating a perceptual set. Motivation can affect perception/bottom-up processing. See a dog because you expect to see a dog. Parallel Distribution Processing (PDP) models/connections...

CSU PSY 252 - Mind, Brain, and Behavior - Exam #3 Study Guide Solutions Neuroscience - ANSWER-Study of neural processes Cognitive Psychology - ANSWER-Study of abstract thinking processes Cognitive Neuroscience - ANSWER-Relation between neural and abstract processes Human Speech Recognition - ANSWER--Much better than computers -Does not need clear Enunciation -Does not need clear separation of words -Can handle variability and inflection -Does not need training on individuals speech Spe...