Cognitive Psych Quiz 3
oblique effect
People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the
semantic regularities
The demonstration in your text that asks you to visualize scenes such as an office, a department store clothing section, a lion, and a microscope often results in more details in the scene of the office or department store than the scene with the lion or microscope. The latter two tend to have fewer details because most individuals from modern society have less knowledge of _____ in those scenes.
parietal lobe
The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to your _____ lobe.
Pragnanz
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
what; where
The perception pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway.
likelihood principle
The saying, "If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all" best reflects which of the following?
The perceptual system creates the perception of movement from stationary images.
How does the phenomenon of apparent movement work?
top-down processing
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.
simplicity
In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles rather than nine separate segments?
top-down processing
Maria took a drink from a container marked "milk." Surprised, she quickly spit out the liquid because it turned out that the container was filled with orange juice instead. Maria likes orange juice, so why did she have such a negative reaction to it? Her response was most affected by
viewpoint invariance
Members of a security team are stationed on rooftops surrounding a large city plaza before a scheduled rally. Suddenly, three team members in different locations radio in to the command center, each stating that they have spotted a suspicious box on the ground with a pipe coming from the top. What enables the security team members to report seeing the same object despite being stationed on different rooftops?
Perceiving that a partially covered automobile continues beneath the cover
Which of the following is an example of unconscious inference?
it involves rapid processes.
Which of the following is true about perception?
similarity
You are at a parade where there are a number of marching bands. You perceive the bands that are all in the same uniforms as being grouped together. The red uniforms are one band, the green uniforms another, and so forth. You have this perceptual experience because of the law of
good continuation
You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of
Beliefs
A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian influence.
When our perceptions are the result of inferences that we make about the environment
What is the process of unconscious inference?
Experiencing neuromodulation
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 noted by the chapter?
anticipatory
The existence of transitional probabilities adds a(n) ________ quality to learning and using language.
speech segmentation
When Carlos moved to the United States, he did not understand any English. Phrases like "Anna Mary Can Pi and I Scream Class Hick" didn't make any sense to him. Now that Carlos has been learning English, he recognizes this phrase as "An American Pie and Ice Cream Classic." This example illustrates that Carlos was not capable of ____ in English.
When environmental energy stimulates the receptors
When does bottom-up processing start?
source of information
What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing?
