Exam 3: Perception

The Gestalt psychologists believe that _____.

Semantic regularity refers to the _____.

People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the

The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate

Perception is NOT essential for

Which of the following adjectives has the LEAST connection to perception?

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.

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.

What two types of information are used by the human perceptual system? Give an example of an act of perception and identify each of the two types in the example.

Members of a security team are stationed on rooftops surrounding a large city plaza before a scheduled rally. Suddenly, three team members in different locations radio in to the command center, each stating that they have spotted a suspicious box on the ground with a pipe coming from the top. What enables the security team members to report seeing the same object despite being stationed on different rooftops?

A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian influence.

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

How does the phenomenon of apparent movement work?

The term semantics, when applied to perception, means the

Which of the following word strings all refer to the same pathway?

Explain how perception is invisible to us but it is not automatic. Give at least two examples to support your thinking.

The likelihood principle states that

What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing?

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

Explain how the object discrimination problem and the landmark discrimination problem help show which pathways in the brain are responsible for different cognitive abilities. How does damage to different lobes of the brain make these tasks more difficult, and what pathways are involved?