Cognitive Psych Ch 3

Which statement best summarizes the focus of the Gestalt psychologists?

We want to understand how elements are added up to create sensations.

Amhad is doing an experiment in which he has to choose between the object he has been shown previously (the target object) and another object. Choosing the target object will result in a reward. What sort of task is Amhad doing?

Object discrimination problem

Gaunthier and coworkers' experiment on experience-dependent plasticity showed that after extensive "Greeble recognition" training sessions, FFA neurons had a(n) ______ response to faces and an ______ response to Greebles.

decreased; increased

The notion that every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible is called the law of

pragnanz

"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law?

Good figure

According to your textbook, perception goes beyond the simple receipt of sensory information. It is involved in many different cognitive skills. Which of the following is not one of those skills as notes by the chapter?

Experiencing neuromodulation

The perception pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway.

What; Where

The pathway leading from the striate cortex to the temporal lobe is known as the

Where pathway

The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina, changing the image into electrical signals, and neural processing is an example of ______ processing

bottom-up

You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of

good continuation

Viewpoint BLANK is the ability to recognize the same object even if it is seen from different perspectives.

invariance

During a professional baseball game, a long fly ball is hit down the first base line toward the foul ball pole. If it goes to the right of the pole it will be a foul ball, and if it goes to the left it will be a home run. The umpire making this call will have the most difficulty making the judgment because

it can be very difficult to distinguish one item from another when it is overlap between the two.

The theory of unconscious inferences includes the

likelihood principle

The study of the behavior of humans with brain damage is called

neuropsychology

Damage to the temporal lobe makes the ______ more difficult.

object discrimination problem

Speech segmentation is defined as

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words

landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to your ______ lobe

parietal

Experience resulting from stimulation of the senses and information from the senses that can help guide our actions is called

perception

If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented alone, this would be an example of _____ processing.

top-down

"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S. Postal service to "read" the addresses on letter and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read and address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of

top-down processing