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stimulus organism response - correct answer ✅What does SOR stand for? Wundt - correct answer ✅What psychologist created the first psychology lab and focused on a structuralist approach and analytic introspection? Watson - correct answer ✅What psychologist studied behavior and classical conditioning (US, UR, CS, and CR)? Skinner - correct answer ✅What psychologist studied behaviorism, operant conditioning, used the ABC model and said that language was learned through imitation and reinforcement? Chomsky - correct answer ✅This psychologist said language was learned through an innate mechanism
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Breland & Breland - correct answer ✅These psychologists studied animal behavior and instinctive drift Broadbent selective filter model - correct answer ✅input -> filter -> detector -> memory unattended information does not pass through filter touch and pain receptors - correct answer ✅mechanical and thermal energy into electrical impulses visual receptors - correct answer ✅electromagnetic light wave energy into electrical impulses auditory receptors - correct answer ✅mechanical pressure changes in air to electrical impulses (hearing)
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occipital - correct answer ✅lobe involved with visual processing hippocampus - correct answer ✅part of brain involved with forming memories amygdala - correct answer ✅part of brain involved with emotions and emotional memories thalamus - correct answer ✅part of brain involved with information processing of input from vision, hearing, and touch Atkinson - Shiffrin Memory Model - correct answer ✅input -> sensory memory -> STM -> LTM rehearsal controls processing
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sensation - correct answer ✅absorbing raw energy (e.g. light waves) through our sensory organs transduction - correct answer ✅conversion of energy to neural signals (across 5 senses) attention - correct answer ✅concentration of mental energy to neural signals (selective filters) perception - correct answer ✅selecting, organizing, an interpreting sensory signals; experiences resulting from stimulation of senses; act of performing complex instantaneous feats of organization and integrating information and making inferences from them bottom up processing - correct answer ✅perception comes from stimuli in the environment, parts are identified and put together and then recognition occurs
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law of common fate - correct answer ✅things that are moving in the same direction appear to be grouped together law of similarity - correct answer ✅similar things appear to be grouped together law of good continuation - correct answer ✅points which when connected result in straight or smoothly curving lines are seen as belonging together heuristic - correct answer ✅rule of thumb, best guess solution to problem, fast, often correct algorithm - correct answer ✅procedure guaranteed to solve problem, slower, definite results, Light-from-above heuristic - correct answer ✅- Light comes from above
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- We perceive shadows as specific information about depth and distance occlusion heuristic - correct answer ✅When object is partially covered by a smaller occluding object, the larger one is seen as continuing behind the smaller occluder selective attention - correct answer ✅focusing on one thing and ignoring all others divided attention - correct answer ✅attending to more than one thing simultaneously (Driving and talking on phone) Treisman's Attenuation Theory - correct answer ✅messages -> attenuator-> dictionary unit-> memory
