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Summer Cognition
Important Single Things
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
06/13/2009

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Mediating variables
Definition
the variables between stimulus and response.
Behaviorist only modestly referred to mediator variables, instead, chosing to rely on purely stimulus and response
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Allometric Size
Definition
brain to body weight size ratio
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Definition
Uses fMRI technology
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phrenology
Definition
Idea that one could measure the skull, and that certain parts of the brain had specific functions.
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Artificial Intelligence
Definition
Relies on Human simulation
uses Engineering Solutions
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Speech Segmentation
Definition
our ability to divide a seemingly incoherent string of sounds into meaningful words
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Figure-Ground problem
Definition
The idea that our perception is divided into the figure we are focusing on and the ground, or background.
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Prananz
Definition
Gestalt principle that basically imposes a simple stable organizational system on perception
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Template
Definition
A stored pattern
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Global Precedence Effect
Definition
The dominance of larger, global features over smaller individual features
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Local Precedence Effect
Definition
The idea that individual features are noticed first by the perceptual system
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