Psych Chapter 3

What is an agnosia? a. Memory deficit b. Inability to perceive or recognize c. Sensory problem d. Vision problem

Inability to perceive or recognize

From the exercises we did in class that found in your book, our visual perception can recognize objects or faces even if they are: a. Blurred b. Hidden c. a and b d. None of the above

A and B

Relying on sensory information from the environment to perceive something is an example of _____ processing. a. bottom-up b. top-down c. sequential d. serial

Bottom-up

Palmer's experiment, in which he asked people to identify objects in a kitchen, showed how _______ can affect perception. a. illusory conjunctions b. context in scene schema c. naming associations d. attention

Context in scene schema

The fact that we can train people's FFA to respond to greebles just as much to faces after training is based on the concept of: a. Good continuation b. Experience dependent plasticity c. Unconscious inference d. Critical period of senses stimulation

Experience dependent plasticity

Sophisticated computer programs are better at perception than our brains: a. True b. False

False

People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the a. principle of size constancy in Gestalt Theory of pereception. b. oblique effect of physical regularities of the environment. c. law of pragnanz. d. law of good continuation.

Oblique effect of physical regularities of the environment

Which three lobes are very involved in visual perception: a. Occipital, Temporal and Parietal b. Occipital, Temporal and Frontal

Occipital, Temporal and Parietal

Experience resulting from interpretation of information coming into our brain through sensation is called a. perception. b. sensation. c. transduction. d. consolidation.

Perception

Which principle DOES NOT belong to Gestalt's Theory: a. Physical Regularities. b. Good Continuation c. Good Figure. d. Similarity

Physical Regularities

15. The visual pathway from the occipital lobe to the parietal lob plays the role of: a. Recognizing Where the object is and How to get to it b. Recognizes What the object is c. Does not play a role in visual perception d. Only has a role in Nociception

Recognize Where the object is and How to get to it

In the hospital study mentioned in your book where surgical patients were told what to expect and taught how to relax when in pain faired better in their experience of pain than patients who did not receive that training. This shows the effect of _______________ on nociception: a. top-down b. bottom-up c. serial d. sequential

Top-down

The fact that objects look the same from any angle is called: a. Placebo effect b. Optic chiasm c. Speech segmentation d. Viewpoint invariance

Viewpoint Invariance

The likelihood principle according to Helmoltz states that a. we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received. b. we perceive size to remain the same size even when objects move to different distances. c. it is easier to perceive vertical and horizontal orientations. d. feature detectors are likely to create a clear perception of an object.

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

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 the whole is more than the sum of its components. d. We need to identify the neurons that create perception.

We want to understand how the whole is more that the sum of its components