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P335, Spring 2024

Exam 1 Information

Below is the list of concepts you should know for the exam. In addition to all lectures, you are responsible for
the Split Brain ZAPS activity, the Ponzo Illusion ZAPS activity, and the Face Perception ZAPS activity.

Cognition: History and Methods:


• Effective study strategies: retrieval practice, elaboration, spaced practice
• Growth mindset vs. fixed mindset
• Introspection & limitations of introspection
• Behaviorism & limitations of behaviorism
• 4 observations that contributed to the cognitive revolution: debate on language acquisition, mental maps
in rats (Tolman’s study), Gestalt principles of perception, role of schema in memory
• Cognitive revolution & approach of cognitive psychologists to study mental processes
• Indirect measures of mental representation: accuracy, response time, neuroimaging
• Case studies & limitations of case studies
• Correlational studies & limitations correlational studies
• Directionality problem & 3rd variable problem
• Experiments & features of experiments that help establish causality

Biological Basis for Cognition:


• Methods to study the brain: lesion studies, neuroimaging, electrical recording
• Pros and cons of the three methods to study the brain
• Parts of a neuron: dendrite, cell body, axon, myelin sheath, synapse
• Action potential & its four properties
• Neurotransmitters & communication between neurons
• Cerebral cortex & functions of lobes: frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe
• Subcortical structures & functions of structures: hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, hypothalamus
• Localization of function
• Lateralization of function
• Integration of brain areas
• Widespread activation throughout the brain
• Plasticity as a result of experience
• Split-brain patients
• Contralateral organization
• Capgras syndrome

Visual Perception and Recognition:


• Sensation vs. perception
• Why visual perception is difficult
• Top-down processes vs. bottom-up processes
• Gestalt principles of perception
• Anatomy of the eye: pupil, iris, lens, retina, fovea, optic nerve
• Blindspot & optic nerve
• Photoreceptors in the retina: rods and cones
• Transduction
• Path of visual information from eye to brain
• Lateral inhibition, edge enhancement, and Mach band illusion
• Dorsal (where) pathway vs. ventral (what) pathway
P335, Spring 2024
• Parallel processing & the binding problem
• Size constancy & shape constancy
• Binocular disparity as a depth cue
• Pictorial depth cues: occlusion/interposition, relative height/elevation, relative size, texture gradient,
linear perspective/perspective convergence, familiar size
• Ponzo illusion
• Prosopagnosia
• View-dependent recognition & inversion effects
• Holistic recognition
• Effects of experience on face recognition
• Greeble study

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