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Lesson 2: introduction to sensation and perception
Sensation,
Perception,
Illusion
22  cards
Lecture 3: Vision - From retina to cortex
Cornea and lens,
Accommodation,
Pupil
30  cards
Lecture 4: Colour vision and Perception
Trichromatic vision,
Cones,
Mosaic of cones
33  cards
Lesson 5: Attention - what is it?
Advertising and attention,
Attention,
Autopilot mode
25  cards
Lecture 6: Attention: Early v late slection and load theory
What is the difference between ea...,
What are the key components of br...,
What are the limitations of broad...
15  cards
Lecture 7: Determinants of selective attention
What is the difference between to...,
What types of stimuli can capture...,
What is biased competition theory...
23  cards
Lecture 8: Attention and the role of cogntive control
What is top down attention,
What is bottom up attention,
How does perceptual load affect a...
25  cards
Lecture 9: psychology of planning
What are the four components of a...,
What factors define the task envi...,
What is a state space
21  cards
Lecture 10: Psychology of insight
What is insight in problem solving,
What are the key characteristics ...,
How do gestalt theories explain i...
30  cards
Lecture 11: psychology of proof
What is proof,
What are the three types of infer...,
Give an example of each inference...
32  cards
Lecture 12: Psychology of choice
What is choice and why do people ...,
What did nisbett wilson 1977 find...,
What is expected value theory
30  cards
Lecture 13: Vision - Capturing the moment
What is episodic memory,
What is semantic memory,
Brain regionswhat is the role of ...
30  cards
Lecture 14: Memory: Using it not Losing it
What is contextual reinstatement ...,
How did smith manzano 2010 study ...,
What is the encoding specificity ...
30  cards
Lecture 15: Sins of Memory
What are the three main types of ...,
What is the drm memory illusion a...,
What did koutstaal schacter 1997 ...
20  cards
Lecture 16: Hacking your Memory
Why is avoiding laptops during le...,
How does multitasking on laptops ...,
How does handwritten note taking ...
20  cards
Lecture 17: Introduction to Speech Perception
Why is speech perception challenging,
What is the now or never bottleneck,
What are phonemes
20  cards
Lecture 18: Cognitive models and the neural basis of Speech Perception
What are the key proposals of the...,
How does categorical perception s...,
What evidence supports motor invo...
20  cards
Lecture 19: Concepts and Categorisation
What is categorization,
How does language relate to concepts,
What are concepts
20  cards
Lecture 20: Language and Thought
How does categorization influence...,
What role do abstract concepts pl...,
What is the traditional view of t...
20  cards
Lesson 21: Language and Language Processing I
How do children and adults differ...,
What is duality of patterning,
What is the focus of linguistics
24  cards
Lecture 22: Language and Language Processing II
What is psycholinguistics,
What distinction did chomsky make...,
What are the three stages of lang...
20  cards

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