Cognitive Psychology Questions

neurons that respond to specific qualities (such as orientation, movement, and length) that make up objects are called

processing a face by the brain, begins in the occipital lobe

when recording from a single neuron, stimulus intensity is represented in a single neuron by the

your author points out that studying the mind requires both ______ and ______ experiments

a "double dissociation" procedure relies on 2 people

it is easy for a ball to roll down a plank mostly because it is round on all sides

a "single discussion" study relies on one person with brain damage in one location of the brain performing one task

fMRI makes it possible to identify which areas of the brain are activated during different cognitive processes

the study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as

reflected light forms an image on the retina

When conducting an experiment on how stimuli are represented by the firing of the neurons, you notice that neurons respond differently to different faces. For example, Arthur's face causes three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the most and neuron 3 responding the least. Roger's face causes three different neurons to fire, with neuron 7 responding the least and neuron 9 responding the most, Your results support__ coding

you are walking down the street and see a really nice car drive by. you notice many features of it: its color movement, shape location and so forth. all of these features are processed

our conscious experience of the world around us is simply a pretty close "reconstruction" by our brain

sparse coding is the representation of a thing by a pattern of activation of a small number of neurons

which of the following neural components is NOT found at the receiving end of the neurons?

recordings from single neurons are conducted using which of these pieces of equipment?

which of the following analogies would provide the best description for how research progresses in cognitive psychology?

donder's measurement of reaction time is particularly important because it demonstrated the "time course" on which the mind operates. donders found that it took ______ to decide which of the two buttons to push in response to a stimulus

in donders experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press one button if the light on the left was lit and another button if the light on the right was lit, they were engaged in a

newell and simon were among the first to use computer in cognitive psychology. their computer program