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- 5. Effect a phenomenon that refers to the delayed reaction time that occurs when you have to name the color but not the word. Example: have to say “Green” even though the word says “Blue” in green font.
- 6. Gradient an example of depth perceptions in monocular cues that displays a lot more detail and gradient in a picture when comparing close objects/pictures to objects/pictures that are far away. Example: You can see a lot more detail of the close up picture of the sand with marks and shells but when the picture is far that same sand is much denser.
- 8. Map a phenomena (also referred to as the “mind’s eye”) introduced by Tolman's Maze-Learning Experiment where the rat was conditioned to go a specific direction to get to it’s food but instead took a shortcut even though the rat had no idea the shortcut existed or it was an option before. Cognitive psychologists call this rat’s ability to make a shortcut to get to it’s food as a:_________.
- 9. principle (also referred to as the positivity bias) the tendency to remember pleasant or positive information rather than unpleasant or negative information.
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- 1. (also referred to as face blindness) due to brain damage, someone with this cognitive disorder cannot recognize familiar faces and believes that their family and friends are imposters.
- 2. Stimulus The retinal image of this crossword is the proximal stimulus while the physical copy of this crossword you are looking at right now is the:___________.
- 3. If you have to look for a pink “M” out of a paper full of all blue “M”s you are doing a ________ search. You have to look for only one thing “pink M” and not multiple conditions which is by it is used as part of your distributed attention rather than your focused attention since you can scan the page and quickly find what you are looking for.
- 4. Using “MCS DELL UMD UCLA LOL BTW OMG NBA JHU” to remember “MCSDELLUMDUCLALOLBTWOMGNBAJHU” is a method students use to improve their memory often referred to as_________.
- 7. Psychology a law of organization: figure/ground and illusory/subjective contours are examples of this law. It is the basic tendency of humans seeing objects organized and wholesome instead of sum of parts. Example: seeing 3 pacmans put together as a white triangle (in the middle of the 3 pacmans).