Chapter 3

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In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles?

Simplicity

Which statement best summarizes the focus of the Gestalt psychologists?

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

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

perception

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

When Carlos moved to the U.S., 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

During a professional baseball game, a long fly ball is hit down the first base line toward the foul ball pole. If it goes to the right of the pole it will be a foul ball, and if it goes to the left it will be a home run. The umpire making this call will have the most difficulty making the judgment because _____.

the umpire will be looking right at the foul pole instead of viewing it from an angle

"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S. Postal service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of _____.

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 pathway leading from the striate cortex to the parietal lobe is known as the _____.

where pathway


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