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v1MH & Psychology 3341/3350 Fall 2016
Exam #2 Study guide
Sigelman & Rider, 8th ed., Lifespan human Development
 Chapter 5:
o Lateralization / Sleep / Memory
 Lateralization - specializations of each hemisphere
 What is the corpus callosum ?
 Left and right are connected by corpus callosum (how left
and right brains communicate with each other)
 Know specializations of the left and right hemispheres
 Which visual field sends information to each hemisphere
o LEFT input goes to RIGHT brain
o RIGHT input goes to LEFT brain
o Ex: Left visual field input  right brain (integration)
 left motor output
 Which side of the body each hemisphere controls.
o Left Brain (sequential, step by step processing)
 Right field input and right motor output
 Laughter
 Logic, thinking- reasons
 Language- speech, words
 Lists
 Controls right hand
 Math
 Explains, gives reason
 Parts
o Right Brain (simultaneous processing, emotional)
 Left field input and left motor output
 Faces
 Mute
 Pictures/spatial/diagrams
 Controls left hand
 Faces
o States of Consciousness:
 Know the states of consciousness covered in lecture.
 Stages of sleep (REM)
 What are some functions of sleep?
 When does memory consolidation occur?

 How do you know a person is in REM sleep?
 What are all the things they do/cause?
 What happens in the frontal lobes during REM?
 What percentage of a newborn’s sleep is spent in REM?
 A 6 month old? 25-30%, and adult?
 What are theta waves- regularly repeating waves at 6 cycles per
second produced during REM
 What purpose do they serve?
 When are they seen?
 What is the activation synthesis theory of dreaming?
 Chapter 6 – Perception & Attention
o Sensation : bottom-up processing, transduction.
o Perception: top-down processing.
o Habituation
 Decreased response to a stimulus
 Learning to be bored, losing interest
 Stimulus discrimination
o Preferential looking or visual preference method
 Two objects are presented together
 Looking longer at one (showing a preference) indicates
they can tell a difference
 Cross-modal matching - looking at one they have already
experienced in another modality
o Accommodation- changing the shape of the lens in order to bring things
into focus
o Acuity - sharpness; the ability to perceive detail; ability to distinguish two
points close together
 Visual acuity at 1 month?

 20/120
o Fantz’s experiment on infant visual perception (video )
 What did they prefer to look at?
 Sharp contours and light/dark contrast