Example and Application Practice - Midterm 1 PSYC 309A
If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented alone, this would be an example of _____ processing
Top-down
Pattern recognition of mobile phone interfaces is an example of - processing
Top-down
Recognizing missing letters in a word by first understanding and recognizing the meaning of the word is - processing
Top-down
bottom-up processing
analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information
sequential processing
processing one aspect of a problem at a time
good continuation
A Gestalt grouping rule stating that two elements will tend to group together if they seem to lie on the same contour.
Grasping Distance (reaching for an object with correct distance between fingers) is an example of - processing
Bottom-up
serial processing
Cognitive process involving considering each input one at a time
The Stroop effect demonstrates
how automatic top-down processing can interfere with intended bottom-up processing (meaning vs physical characteristic)
Balint's syndrome
inability to focus attention on individual objects due to parietal lobe damage
oblique effect
people can perceive horizontals and verticals more easily than other orientations
speech segmentation
the ability to tell when one word ends and another begins
Pragnanz
the overarching Gestalt idea that experience will be organized as meaningful, symmetrical, and simple whenever possible.
top-down processing
the use of preexisting knowledge to organize individual features into a unified whole
