Psychophysics Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

PSU Psych 100 Exam 2 Questions With Verified Solutions sensation - answerthe process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment perception - answerthe process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events bottom-up processing - answeranalysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information top-down processin...

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Clinical neuroscience is: A. Is the branch of neuroscience that focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms that underlie diseases and disorders of brain and peripheral nervous systems - i.e. includes Central Nervous System and Autonomic Nervous System disorders. B. Traditional paper and pencil, and newer more functionally dynamic behavioural psychophysics (threshold testing etc.) C. Inattention, inability to stay on task, excessively distractible or over impulsive as in ADHD or AD...

Definition of cognitive neuroscience? - Scientific study of biological mechanisms underlying cognition: neural substrates of mental processes and associate behaviors, a branch of both psychology and neuroscience. How is cognitive neuroscience multidisciplinary? - Cognitive psychology, neuroscience, physics, engineering, math, computer science, etc... What are a bunch of methods that cognitive neuroscience employs? (5) - -General psychology: psychophysics, cognitive psychology, social psyc...

Psychology - Answer-The science of processes and behaviors What are the values of Psychology? - Answer-1. empirical evidence 2. critical thinking 3. systematic research methods What are the goals of Psychology? - Answer-1. description 2. explanation 3. prediction 4. facilitating changes (therapy) Aristotle - Answer-Lived from 384 to 322. Believed that knowledge was acquired through experience Nature Vs. Nurture - Answer-Are a persons characteristics mostly inborn or learned? Four Laws ...

Psychology - Answer-the scientific (empirical) study of behavior and mental processes Psychology seeks to: - Answer-Describe behavior and mental processes Understand Predict Modify Subdisciplines of Psych - Answer-Human Developmental/Family Cognitive/Psycholinguistics Developmental/Child Industrial/Organizational Personality-Social Clinical and counseling psych are very similar in their day to day. Psychological Disciplines Learning: - Answer-rewards and consequences Psychological D...

Psychology - Answer-scientific study of thought & behavior - How the mind works & the rules that govern behavior within and between individuals - Practice & science Greek - Answer-Psyche - soul or mind Logos - word Psychology as a science has 4 goals - Answer-1) Describe 2) predict 3) explain 4) control Subdisciplines - Answer-Cognitive Developmental Social Personality Health Educational industial organizational Subfields - Helping individuals: - Answer-Counseling psychologist ...

SNP Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Who was Gustav Fechner, and why is he so important to the study of sensation and perception? - ANSWERSHe was the first true experimental psychologist. He contended that the relationship between psychological responses and physical stimuli could be described mathematically. He coined the term psychophysics. Awoke with the idea of systematically studying psychological responses to physical events. What is an absolute threshold? - ANSWERSThe mi...

Psychology 101 Chapters 1-6 Questions and Answers Already Passed What is psychology? Psychology is the study of behavior, thought, and experience. What is pseudoscience? Ideas that are represented as science but do not utilize principles of scientific thinking or procedure. What is the scientific method? The scientific method is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, proposing explanations, developing theories, and testing those theories. Can a hypot...

psychoacoustics is the study of relationships between the __________ of a stimuli and _________ of them - ANS - physical characteristics; our psychological experience psychoacoustics is a subset of ______ - ANS - psychophysics the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of a stimuli and our psychological experience of them - ANS - psychoacoustics the general physical phenomenon of sound - ANS - acoustics main physical characteristics of acoustic stimuli (4): - ANS - -in...