cognitive psych ch 3 test

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

perception

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

pragnaz

You are at a parade where there are a number of marching bands. You perceive the bands that are all in the same uniforms are 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

The likelihood principle states that

we perceive the object thats 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

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

In the finding faces in a landscape demonstration in your text, once you percieve a particular difficult not to perceive them this way. This is due to

your prior knowledge

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

Speech segmentation

Palmer's experiment, in which he asked people to identify objects in a kitchen, showed how _______ can affect perception

context