SC B-62 Section 1

First section
Richard Griffin: griffin3@fas

1. What is Freud's theory about why some people are excessively orderly and rule-bound? Is it testable? If so, how?
• they were potty trained too early
• according to Freud the time for each person is different - even for identical twins (fudge factor)
  
• large sample size (all different influences would equal out to ze, pre-natal commitment, identical twins, train them at different times
  
• not falsifiable
  
2. Why would skinner object to the claim that students study hard because they want to get good grades? What would he say instead?
• reinforcers (=reward)
• bad word: want
• re
  
3. The image of the world on the retina is upside-down. Why don't people see the world upside-down?
• consistent mapping
• there is no need
• goggle experiments - get habituated
  
4. If a psychologist flashes a word in the left half of your visual field, could you read it? Why or why not?
• yes
• left visual field maps to the right side of the retina > right hemisphere of the brain
  
• the corpus colossum will transfer the info to the left hemisphere
• even if the cc is cut, one could read it, but not speak about it (read the word "pan" then he was able to draw it)
• right hemisphere can recognize words - maybe not full sentences
  
5. How do cognitive psychologists know that it takes about a half a second to retrieve the name of a printed letter?
• discrimination of {a,A,b,B}
  
• shape or meaning
• response time was 400-600 ms