Cognitive Psychology- Ch. 3 Practice Questions
Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing?
Recognizing a crying friend's sounds as words in a sentence
Which of the following is a basic principle of Gestalt psychology?
The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian influence.
beliefs
Which of the following word strings all refer to the same pathway?
dorsal, where, action
You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of
good continuation.
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
If a Gestalt psychologist was baking a cake for an event, what would they be most focused on?
the cake
What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing?
the source of information
Which of the following is NOT considered a starting point for perception?
thinking
According to your textbook, perception goes beyond the simple receipt of sensory information. It is involved in many different cognitive skills. Which of the following is NOT one of those skills as noted by the chapter?
Experiencing neuromodulation
Which of the following is true about perception?
It involves rapid processes.
What is a scene schema?
Knowledge of what a scene typically contains
Amhad is doing an experiment in which he has to choose between the object he has been shown previously (the target object) and another object. Choosing the target object will result in a reward. What sort of task is Amhad doing?
Object discrimination problem
In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles rather than nine separate segments?
Simplicity
How does the phenomenon of apparent movement work?
The perceptual system creates the perception of movement from stationary images.
Which of the following is true about Bayesian inference?
The probability of an outcome is determined by the prior probability and the likelihood of the outcome.
When does bottom-up processing start?
When environmental energy stimulates the receptors
What is the process of unconscious inference?
When our perceptions are the result of inferences that we make about the environment
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
Which of the following would have the most semantic regularities?
a shopping mall
The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate
an effect of experience-dependent plasticity.
The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina, changing the image into electrical signals, and neural processing is an example of _____ processing.
bottom-up
Perception is NOT essential for
improving empathy.
The saying, "If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all" best reflects which of the following?
likelihood principle
The theory of unconscious inference includes the
likelihood principle.
Semantic regularity refers to the _____.
meaning between properties of an object
The term semantics, when applied to perception, means the
meaning of a scene, often related to what is happening within the scene.
People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the
oblique effect.
Speech segmentation is defined as
organizing the sounds of speech into individual words.
The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to your _____ lobe.
parietal
The Gestalt psychologists believe that _____.
perception is affected by experience, but built-in principles can override experience
The fact that trees are more likely to be vertical or horizontal than slanted is an example of ____.
physical regularity
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
pragnanz.
You are at a parade where there are a number of marching bands. You perceive the bands that are all in the same uniforms as 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
When Carlos moved to the United States, 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
Maria took a drink from a container marked "milk." Surprised, she quickly spit out the liquid because it turned out that the container was filled with orange juice instead. Maria likes orange juice, so why did she have such a negative reaction to it? Her response was most affected by
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 perception pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway.
what; where