Psy 252 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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