Exam 1 Review Topics

The exam consists of 32 multiple choice questions and 1 short-answer question. All of the topics of these questions are listed below.

Question topics:

• The knowledge organization diagram from the syllabus.
• Approaches to the study of cogntion ("Disorders" book, pp. 3+).
• The concerns of the Gestalt psychologists (both textbooks).
• Marr's theory of vision: The computational level (both textbooks, but especially "Action").
• Marr's theory of vision: The contents of the three types of representations (primal sketch, 2 1/2 D sketch, object description; both textbooks, but expecially "Action").
• The interactive activation model of face perception (both textbooks and web page).
• Definition and examples of perceptual constancy.
• The moon illusion (lecture; mentioned in "Disorders" p. 32).
• Bottom-up context effects such as configurations of triangles (lecture).
• Feature theories of face perception ("Action" textbook).
• Associationism vs. hypothesis testing in learning ("Action" textbook).
• Attribute listing for different levels of categories (lecture and "Action" textbook).
• Examples of prototype, exemplar and rule-based categories.
• The analogy of concept learning with scientific method (lecture and web page)
• The specific models in the homework about category learning.
• Implications of results from typicality judgments for theories of categorization ("Action" textbook).
• Shadowing experiments and implications for early or late selection theories of attention (both textbooks, but mostly "Action").
• Selective learning experiment and its implications ("Action" textbook p. 81 and lecture).
• The card trick demonstrated in class (and on the web).
• Visual search experiments: Results and implications ("Disorders" textbook and web page).
• The psychological refractory period and the RT-accuracy experiment (p. 132-134 of "Action").
• Automaticity and practice, especially regarding the Stroop effect ("Action" textbook).
• Definition of automaticity.
• Logic of double dissociation.
• Apperceptive vs. associative agnosia.
• Disorders of face and expression perception.
• Blindsight --- what is it and how is it explained?
• Recognizing typical or unusual views of objects.