Chapter 3

the process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects is

perceptual organization

which heuristic prevents us from seeing things in our environment as being chopped into pieces when they are partially obscured by other objects

occlusion heuristic

Speech segmentation is defined as

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words

According to Treisman's feature integration theory, the first stage of perception is called the _____ stage.

preattentive

which of the following is not a geon

circle

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

context

"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law?

good figure

a heuristic is a

A "rule of thumb" that provides a best-guess solution to a problem.

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

speech segmentation

Maria took a drink from a container marked "milk". surprised, she quickly spit out the liquid because it turned out the container was filled with orange juice instead. maria likes orange juice so why did she have such a negative reaction to it

top-down processing