Chapter 3 Quiz

Which of the following statements is most consistent with recognition-by-components theory?

Humans can identify an object if sufficient information is available to enable us to identify an object's basic features.

In the text's "animal lurking behind a tree / two oddly shaped tree stumps" example, which Gestalt law did NOT contribute to the incorrect perception?

Simplicity

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

Speech segmentation.

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.

decreased; increased

A difference between a heuristic and an algorithm is:

heuristics do not result in a correct solution every time as algorithms do.

The theory of unconscious inference includes the:

likelihood principle

Some neurons respond when we watch someone else do something. These are known as:

mirror neurons.

Damage to the temporal lobe makes the ________ more difficult.

object discrimination problem

The "indentations in the sand / bumps in the sand" example from your text illustrates:

the light-from-above heuristic

"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.