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| Direct Perception Theory - environment is inherently structured, we become in tune to that structure; Animal World Reciprocity - animal structure and environment are interdependent |
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| Cardioidal strain - objects on face go up relatively as you age |
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| Laws of Organization: figure-grounded relationship, closure, proximity, figural goodness, common movement, similarity |
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| Phonemic restoration - hear things because we expect them through context; syntax gives mental hints, experience |
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| lived with Bambuti pygmy tribe, people had not learned size constancy, he took them out of rainforest for first time |
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| visual cliff, placed kid in middle of table; depth perception is innate |
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| body generates heat, moves without soul's influence; dualism |
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| soul is meaningless, there is only energy and matter - materialism |
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| father of evolution, Origin of Species - scientific grounding for psychology, natural selection, survival of the fittest |
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| founder of scientific psychology - complex processes are sequences of elementary processes - foundations of cognitive psychology; STRUCTURALISM; more analytical; imags, sensations, and feelings are basic contents |
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| Structuralism, examine one's own conscious experience through introspection |
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| Functionalism - ask what it is for, then look at whole thing & its larger parts to see how it fulfills those purposes; idea of instincts; influenced by Darwin |
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| BEHAVIORISM - study behavior rather than mind; identify environmental conditions causing behavior; S-R psychology, all is response to stimuli, anti-mentalism |
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| behavioralist founded in functionalism:k operant response - any behavioral action that operates on environment to produce a consequence |
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| work with patients with problems buried in 'unconscious mind'; psychoanalysis; bulk of mental activity is unconscious; childhood experience influences self |
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| experiment with Condition Simuli in dogs salivating |
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| difference in hypothalamus in straight vs. gay individuals |
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| 6 basic emotions conveyed by facial expressions |
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| railroad worker with pole through head, damaged frontal lobe behidn eyes, changed personality |
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| child locked in attic for 13 years, could not learn things because she missed the period in life where she could |
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| test if language in right hemisphere at all; found abilities of 4-5 year old, recognition of very basic nouns |
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| experiment with people who had and had not eaten, affected people's perceptual threshold |
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| research with split brain patients |
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