BYU PSYCH375 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE 2026
VERIFIED Q&A MASTER SOLUTION PACK
◉ What is Experience-Dependent Plasticity?.
Answer: Blakemore & Cooper (1970): cats raised in environments
with only vertical or horizontal lines shifted how feature detectors
responded
◉ What are Complex Stimuli?.
Answer: Gross' research on monkeys: neurons in temporal lobe
respond primarily to hands, others respond to faces
◉ What is Sensory Coding?.
Answer: How neural firing represents our environment
◉ Are all objects represented by the firing of specialized Neurons?.
Answer: Not likely.
◉ Know difference between.
Answer:
◉ What is Specificity coding?.
,Answer: an object could be represented by the firing of a specialized
neuron that responds only to that object
◉ What is Population coding?.
Answer: representation of a particular object by the pattern of firing
of a large number of neurons
◉ What is Sparse coding (Quiroga)?.
Answer: representation of a particular object by the pattern of firing
of only a smal group of neurons (majoritty remain silent)
◉ What are the Localization Methods?.
Answer: Single Cell Recording (e.g. feature detectors);
Neuropsychology/Lesions (e.g. double dissociations); Brain Imaging
(e.g., Fusiform Face Area)
◉ What is Localization of Function in Language?.
Answer: Double dissociation of Broca's Areas vs. Wernicke's Area
◉ What is Localization of function in Perception?.
Answer: Four Lobes: Occipital (seeing), Temporal (hearing), Parietal
(touch), Frontal (coordinating information)
, ◉ What is localization of function in Other Areas?.
Answer: Faces: Fusiform Face Area in temporal lobe; Places:
Parahippocampal Place Area in temporal lobe; Bodies & Body Parts:
Extrastriate Body Area in temporal lobe
◉ What are Neural Networks?.
Answer: interconnected areas of the brain that can communicate
with each other
◉ What is Structural Connectivity?.
Answer: the roadmap; connections via nerve axons, brain's wiring
diagram
◉ What is Functional Connectivity?.
Answer: the traffic pattern; groups of neurons eihtin connectome
function in relation to cognition
◉ What are the Dynamics of Cognition?.
Answer: Engaged networks switch/shift over time; Constantly
changing activity within and across networks (e.g., influenced by
task, time of day, food)
◉ What is the The Default Mode Network?.
VERIFIED Q&A MASTER SOLUTION PACK
◉ What is Experience-Dependent Plasticity?.
Answer: Blakemore & Cooper (1970): cats raised in environments
with only vertical or horizontal lines shifted how feature detectors
responded
◉ What are Complex Stimuli?.
Answer: Gross' research on monkeys: neurons in temporal lobe
respond primarily to hands, others respond to faces
◉ What is Sensory Coding?.
Answer: How neural firing represents our environment
◉ Are all objects represented by the firing of specialized Neurons?.
Answer: Not likely.
◉ Know difference between.
Answer:
◉ What is Specificity coding?.
,Answer: an object could be represented by the firing of a specialized
neuron that responds only to that object
◉ What is Population coding?.
Answer: representation of a particular object by the pattern of firing
of a large number of neurons
◉ What is Sparse coding (Quiroga)?.
Answer: representation of a particular object by the pattern of firing
of only a smal group of neurons (majoritty remain silent)
◉ What are the Localization Methods?.
Answer: Single Cell Recording (e.g. feature detectors);
Neuropsychology/Lesions (e.g. double dissociations); Brain Imaging
(e.g., Fusiform Face Area)
◉ What is Localization of Function in Language?.
Answer: Double dissociation of Broca's Areas vs. Wernicke's Area
◉ What is Localization of function in Perception?.
Answer: Four Lobes: Occipital (seeing), Temporal (hearing), Parietal
(touch), Frontal (coordinating information)
, ◉ What is localization of function in Other Areas?.
Answer: Faces: Fusiform Face Area in temporal lobe; Places:
Parahippocampal Place Area in temporal lobe; Bodies & Body Parts:
Extrastriate Body Area in temporal lobe
◉ What are Neural Networks?.
Answer: interconnected areas of the brain that can communicate
with each other
◉ What is Structural Connectivity?.
Answer: the roadmap; connections via nerve axons, brain's wiring
diagram
◉ What is Functional Connectivity?.
Answer: the traffic pattern; groups of neurons eihtin connectome
function in relation to cognition
◉ What are the Dynamics of Cognition?.
Answer: Engaged networks switch/shift over time; Constantly
changing activity within and across networks (e.g., influenced by
task, time of day, food)
◉ What is the The Default Mode Network?.
