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Cognitive Psychology
midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| name the syndrome that involves an inattention to objects in one part of the visual field | neglect or hemispatial neglect |
| is attention space-based, object based, or both? | both |
| when attention is controlled in a top-down fashion, this is known as what? | endogenous |
| moving attention from one target to another is known as what? | shifting |
| a syndrome in which one cannot focus their attention on more than one object at a time | balint's |
| true or false: according to researchers, language is uniquely human | true |
| when children speak in simplified, incomplete sentences, it's called what? | telegraphic speech |
| when children overextend a grammatical rule, this is called what? | over-regularization |
| what's an example of over-regularization? | that hurted |
| broca's area | the area of the brain that is important in speech production |
| mcgurk effect | the finding that we combine visual and auditory signals to comprehend speech |
| true or false: imagery and perception appear to share the same brain mechanism | true |
| which brain area is active in both vision and imagery? | vi or occipital lobe |
| mental images are _______ based | depiction |
| the _____ hypothesis is that images in one's mind parallel visual images from an external source | paralleism |
| 2 reasons why herbert terrace concluded that nim didn't learn language | 1. his utterances did not increase in length (typically 1-2 words) 2. even long utterances were grammatically incorrect and uninformative |