Cognitive Psychology Chapter 3 quiz

Perception is considered to be the gateway to all other types of cognition.

True

Which of the following is not a gestalt principle of perceptual organization?

A. familiarity

Which of the following refers to the task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina?

A. inverse projection problem

Experience resulting from stimulation of one or more of the senses and information from those senses that can help guide our actions is called:

B. perception

Whereas perception is believed to start with the _____ in bottom-up processing, it is believed to start with the _____ in top-down processing.

B. senses; brain

The "likelihood principle" states that:

C. we perceive the objects that are most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received.

Which of the following theories states that our perceptions are the result of unconscious assumptions we make about the environment based on past knowledge and experiences that we have?

D. Unconscious Inference.

According to the most recent model of pain perception, which of the following findings provides evidence to suggest that our knowledge, experience, and expectations can influence how pain is experienced?

D. all the above

Machines (such as computers) are just as accurate as humans at perceiving sensory information.

False

Perception is believed to be automatic and uniform for all humans.

False