Cognitive Psychology

I.   Finishing Sensory Stores

A.   Evaluate the results from your study  Partial Report Data

C.   Issues

1.                 Why do we propose that sensory stores exist?

2.                 Duration

3.                 Capacity

4.                 Function

5.                 Is this construct necessary?

  II.                  Pattern Recognition

A.   Is perception better described as a bottom-up or top-down process?

1.         What is the difference?

a)                 What is this?

b)                Mona; In picture form

c)                 Impossible figures

d)                 What is this?

2.    Questions

a)        What are some implications of the top-down aspects of perception?

b)       Discuss potential limits to top-down perception.

For Friday:

Review the three main theoretical positions:  Template theory, Feature Detection Theory, and Prototype Theory.  Be prepared to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.