Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Psych 367 M1

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Absolute threshold   show
🗑
show motor activities in response to the stimulus  
🗑
Bottom-up processing (data-based processing)   show
🗑
Categorize   show
🗑
Cerebral cortex   show
🗑
Classical psychophysical methods   show
🗑
show the smallest difference between two stimuli that enables us to tell the difference between them  
🗑
Distal stimulus   show
🗑
Frontal lobe   show
🗑
show thee smallest width of lines that participants can detect  
🗑
Knowledge   show
🗑
Magnitude estimation   show
🗑
show adjusts the stimulus intensity continuously until he or she can just barely detect the stimulus  
🗑
Method of constant stimuli   show
🗑
Method of limits   show
🗑
Neural processing   show
🗑
show that people see vertical or horizontal lines better than lines oriented obliquely  
🗑
Occipital lobe   show
🗑
Parietal lobe   show
🗑
Perceived magnitude   show
🗑
Perception   show
🗑
show journey from stimuli to responses  
🗑
Phenomenological report   show
🗑
Physiology–behavior relationship   show
🗑
show the lobe of the brain for each type of sensation  
🗑
Principle of representation   show
🗑
show stimuli and responses created by stimuli are transformed, or changed, between the distal stimulus and perception.  
🗑
show representation of the distal stimulus on the receptors (electron, photons, vibrations)  
🗑
show measures the relationships between the physical (the stimulus) and the psychological (the behavioral response)  
🗑
show the image that you either interpret as a rat or a man depending on what you were primed for  
🗑
Reaction time   show
🗑
Recognition   show
🗑
Sensation   show
🗑
Sensory receptors   show
🗑
Stimulus–behavior relationship   show
🗑
show relationship between stimuli (Steps 1–2) and physiological responses  
🗑
show hearing  
🗑
Thresholds   show
🗑
Top-down processing (knowledge based processing)   show
🗑
show transformation of environmental energy (such as light, sound, or thermal energy) to electrical energy  
🗑
Visual form agnosia   show
🗑
Action potential   show
🗑
show conducts electrical signals (long)  
🗑
show recording brain responses in neurologically normal humans  
🗑
show speech production area  
🗑
show provides for cell  
🗑
Dendrites   show
🗑
show increase in positive charge inside the neuron (-70 to +40)  
🗑
Distributed representation   show
🗑
show when the neuron becomes depolarized, and thus the inside of the neuron becomes more positive  
🗑
Falling phase of the action potential   show
🗑
show neural activity associated with a particular function that is flowing through this structural network  
🗑
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)   show
🗑
Grandmother cell   show
🗑
show increase in negative charge inside the neuron  
🗑
show when the charge inside the axon becomes more negative so that firing is harder  
🗑
show molecules that carry an electrical charge  
🗑
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)   show
🗑
show How do physical processes like nerve impulses (the body part of the problem) become transformed into the richness of perceptual experience (the mind part of the problem)?  
🗑
Modularity   show
🗑
show each specific area in modularity theory  
🗑
show axon  
🗑
show cells specialized to carry electrical signals  
🗑
show the study of the behavioral effects of brain damage in humans  
🗑
show chemical messengers  
🗑
Permeability   show
🗑
Phrenology   show
🗑
show our experiences are represented by the pattern of firing across a large number of neurons  
🗑
show once the response is triggered, it travels all the way down the axon without decreasing in size.  
🗑
Receptor sites   show
🗑
Refractory period   show
🗑
show -70 mV  
🗑
Resting-state fMRI   show
🗑
Resting-state functional connectivity   show
🗑
show quick and steep depolarization from –70 mV to +40 mV during an action potential  
🗑
show brain location associated with carrying out a specific task  
🗑
show how neurons represent various characteristics of the environment  
🗑
Sparse coding   show
🗑
Specificity coding   show
🗑
Spontaneous activity   show
🗑
Structural connectivity   show
🗑
show small space between axon and dendrite  
🗑
Task-related fMRI   show
🗑
Test location   show
🗑
Wernicke’s area   show
🗑
show plot of the amount of light absorbed versus the wavelength of the light  
🗑
Accommodation   show
🗑
show lateral inhibition  
🗑
Axial myopia   show
🗑
show  
🗑
Blind spot   show
🗑
Center-surround antagonism   show
🗑
Center-surround receptive field   show
🗑
show how placing colors side by side could alter their appearance  
🗑
show  
🗑
Cones   show
🗑
show when a number of neurons synapse onto a single neuron  
🗑
Cornea   show
🗑
show when our rods are activated and become sensitive to low light environments  
🗑
show  
🗑
show sensitivity at the end of dark adaptation  
🗑
show when a person’s retina becomes detached from the pigment epithelium, a layer that contains enzymes necessary for pigment regeneration  
🗑
Edge enhancement   show
🗑
Excitatory area   show
🗑
Excitatory-center, inhibitory-surround receptive field (p. 56)   show
🗑
Eyes (p. 40)   show
🗑
show can see distant objects clearly but have trouble seeing nearby objects  
🗑
Fovea   show
🗑
show output neurons that encode and transmit information from the eye to the brain  
🗑
Horizontal cells   show
🗑
Inhibitory area   show
🗑
Inhibitory-center, excitatory-surround receptive field (p. 56)   show
🗑
show activates thousands of charged molecules to create electrical signals in receptors  
🗑
show inhibition that is transmitted across the retina (laterally)  
🗑
show the blob that does the focusing. The thing that doesn't work in my eye  
🗑
show sensitivity measured in the light  
🗑
show Light and dark bands created at fuzzy borders  
🗑
Macular degeneration   show
🗑
show Light of a single wavelength  
🗑
Myopia/ Nearsightedness   show
🗑
show interconnected groups of neuron  
🗑
Neural convergence   show
🗑
show large structures inside the horseshoe crabs eyes that made it easy to study lateral inhibition  
🗑
Optic nerve   show
🗑
Outer segments   show
🗑
Peripheral retina   show
🗑
Photoreceptors   show
🗑
show  
🗑
show hardening of the lens and weakening of the ciliary muscles  
🗑
show pretty muscle  
🗑
Purkinje shift   show
🗑
show the region of the retina that must receive illumination in order to obtain a response in any given fiber  
🗑
Refractive errors   show
🗑
show cornea and/or the lens bends the light too much  
🗑
show  
🗑
show genetic disorder that results in total blindness  
🗑
Rod monochromats   show
🗑
Rod–cone break   show
🗑
Rod spectral sensitivity curve   show
🗑
show dark vision  
🗑
show rods are more sensitive to short-wavelength light than are the cones  
🗑
Spectral sensitivity curve (p. 49)   show
🗑
Transduction   show
🗑
show ability to see detail (better in cones)  
🗑
show  
🗑
Visual pigment bleaching   show
🗑
show the retinal needs to return to its bent shape and become reattached to the opsin reforming the visual pigment molecule  
🗑
Visual pigments   show
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: Avjoshi
Popular Psychology sets