Cognitive Psychology- Ch. 3 Practice Questions

Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing?

Recognizing a crying friend's sounds as words in a sentence

Which of the following is a basic principle of Gestalt psychology?

The whole is different from the sum of its parts.

A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian influence.

beliefs

Which of the following word strings all refer to the same pathway?

dorsal, where, action

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.

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.

semantic regularities

If a Gestalt psychologist was baking a cake for an event, what would they be most focused on?

the cake

What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing?

the source of information

Which of the following is NOT considered a starting point for perception?

thinking

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?

Experiencing neuromodulation

Which of the following is true about perception?

It involves rapid processes.

What is a scene schema?

Knowledge of what a scene typically contains

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

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?

Simplicity

How does the phenomenon of apparent movement work?

The perceptual system creates the perception of movement from stationary images.

Which of the following is true about Bayesian inference?

The probability of an outcome is determined by the prior probability and the likelihood of the outcome.

When does bottom-up processing start?

When environmental energy stimulates the receptors

What is the process of unconscious inference?

When our perceptions are the result of inferences that we make about the environment

Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following examples?

When someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception

Which of the following would have the most semantic regularities?

a shopping mall

The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate

an effect of experience-dependent plasticity.

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

Perception is NOT essential for

improving empathy.

The saying, "If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all" best reflects which of the following?

likelihood principle

The theory of unconscious inference includes the

likelihood principle.

Semantic regularity refers to the _____.

meaning between properties of an object

The term semantics, when applied to perception, means the

meaning of a scene, often related to what is happening within the scene.

People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the

oblique effect.

Speech segmentation is defined as

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words.

The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to your _____ lobe.

parietal

The Gestalt psychologists believe that _____.

perception is affected by experience, but built-in principles can override experience

The fact that trees are more likely to be vertical or horizontal than slanted is an example of ____.

physical regularity

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.

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

similarity

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.

speech segmentation

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

top-down processing.

The likelihood principle states that

we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received.

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

what; where