Quiz 3

Which of the following is NOT an example of a physical regularity in your text?

Angled orientation

Top-down processing involves processing that originates in the _____, and bottom-up processing involves processing that begins with_____

Brain; sensory stimulation

Some perceptions result from assumptions we make about the environment that we are not even aware of. This theory of unconscious inference was developed by

Helmholtz.

The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate

an effect of experience-dependent plasticity.

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 task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina is called the

inverse projection problem.

The theory of unconscious inference includes the

likelihood principle.

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.

The video we watched revealed how virtual reality can reduce pain perception, what type of processing is this an example of?

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.