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COGS 101A Final Exam Study Guide (Just A List Of Stuff You Should Know About) NOTES: • This document is NOT a guarantee of what will/won’t be on the exam • All the exam questions will be multiple choice – there will be somewhere between 75 and 100 questions • There will NOT be any questions asking you to link the names of scientists to their research • •

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Memorizing definitions will not be enough for you to do well – make sure you understand the concepts well enough to explain them and to apply them to real world (or fictional) scenarios The exam will be about ½ material from AFTER Midterm 2 and about ½ stuff BEFORE the Midterm 2, including many questions about big picture connections between topics. A helpful way to study would be to create non-chronological groups of topics we’ve covered – for example: o Sensory Plasticity (there have been examples all term & we will focus on this on Friday Week 10) o Action/Perception Links (seriously do the two readings on this – they’re short and there will be several questions about them on the exam) o Selective Adaptation o Areas of the Brain We’ve Covered (different sensory pathways and “topic” organization) o Receptive Fields & Tuning Curves o Individual Differences in Perception (Qualia!) o Evolutionary Functions of Various Senses o Top-Down Processing & Unconscious Inference For the Pre-Midterm 2 material, the previous study guides continue to work. Focus on reviewing content from Week 1 and on big picture ideas/themes rather than nitty-gritty details

POST-MIDTERM 2 CONTENT Body Senses •

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Semicircular Canals o Ampulla o Cupula o Hair Cells Otolith Organs o Utricle & Saccule Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Visual/Vestibular Links Proprioception o Muscle Spindles o Golgi Tendon Organs o Joint Receptors Types of Mechanoreceptors o Small/Big Receptive Field o Fast/Slow Adapting Tactile Acuity Homonculus Sensory Plasticity & Missing Limbs Thermoreceptors o Selective Adaptation of these Thermoregulation Interoception Nocioceptors Types of Pain Social Pain Hypothesis

Chemical Senses • • • • •

Olfactory Receptor Cells Olfactory Bulb

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Proust Effect Olfactory Pathways Pheromones

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Papillae o Filiform o Fungiform o Foliate o Circumvallate

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Taste Buds Taste Cells Taste Pores The five tastes Taste pathways Individual differences Multimodal Flavor

Shape Theory of Smell Human Olfactory Abilities

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The Binding Problem Examples of Sensory Integration Action/Perception Links Examples of sensory plasticity Examples of cyborg technology...