Chapter 3-Perception

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"The ""textured wall"" example from your text illustrates" semantic regularities. the oblique effect. size constancy. "The ""textured wall"" example from your text illustrates"

"The ""textured wall"" example from your text illustrates"

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? Landmark discrimination problem Dissociation task Greeble recognition task Object discrimination problem

Object discrimination problem

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 simplicity. familiarity. good figure.

good continuation

Viewpoint ________ is the ability to recognize the same object even if it is seen from different perspectives. consistency resistance constancy invariance

invariance

The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina is called the radiated wavelength paradox. inverse projection problem. serial location task. fusiform face role.

inverse projection problem

The theory of unconscious inference includes the oblique effect. likelihood principle. principle of componential recovery. principle of speech segmentation.

likelihood principle.

The study of the behavior of humans with brain damage is called neuropsychology. functional localization. positron emission tomography. the subtraction technique.

neuropsychology

Damage to the temporal lobe makes the _____ more difficult. object discrimination problem landmark discrimination problem double dissociation problem single dissociation problem

object discrimination problem

Speech segmentation is defined as: A. creating a sentence from a series of spoken words. B. ignoring the spaces between the spoken words of a sentence. C. organizing the sounds of speech into individual words. D. recognizing a few words out of many when hearing a largely unfamiliar language.

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words.

The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects is the principle of conjunction. perceptual organization. perceptual discriminability. perceptual fusion.

perceptual organisation

The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects is the principle of conjunction. perceptual organization. perceptual discriminability. perceptual fusion.

perceptual organization.

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_____? common fate. similarity. pragnanz. continuity.

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" simplicity. similarity. pragnanz. familiarity.

similarity

The pathway leading from the striate cortex to the temporal lobe is known as the: what pathway. where pathway. landmark pathway. action pathway.

what pathway

The pathway leading from the striate cortex to the temporal lobe is known as the what pathway. where pathway. landmark pathway. action pathway.

what pathway.

"The perception pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway." where; what what; where size; distance distance; size

what; where

Gauthier 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." unvaried; unvaried decreased; increased unvaried; increased increased; increased

decreased; increased

Which of the following is NOT an example of a physical regularity in your text? The oblique effect The light-from-above assumption Angled orientation "Having one object that is partially covered by another ""come out the other side"""

Angled orientation

"Palmer's experiment, in which he asked people to identify objects in a kitchen, showed how _______ can affect perception" illusory conjunctions context naming associations attention

Context

"In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles?" A.Simplicity B. Contiguity C. Figure-Ground D. Common Fate

Simplicity

Which statement best summarizes the focus of the Gestalt psychologists? A.We must understand the basic components of perception. B. We need to identify the number of geons needed for object recognition. C. We want to understand how elements are added up to create sensations. D. We need to identify the neurons that create perception.

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

"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 top-down sequential serial

bottom-up

"In the ""finding faces in a landscape"" demonstration in your text, once you perceive a particular grouping of rocks as a face, it is often difficult not to perceive them this way. This is due to" A. the inverse projection problem. B. a shift in your attentional focus. C. a recency effect. D. your prior knowledge.

your prior knowledge.


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