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
