Exam 3: Perception

When Carlos moved to the U.S., he did not understand any English.Phrases like "Anna Mary Can Pi And I Scream Class Hick" didn't make any sense to him.Now that Carlos has been learning English, he recognizes this phrase as "An American Pie and Ice Cream Classic." This example illustrates that Carlos is not capable of ____ in English.

"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law?

The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina, changing the image into electrical signals, and neural processing is an example of _____ processing.

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.

Things that form patterns that are meaningful are likely to be grouped together according to the law of

Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing?

Which of the following is NOT associated with recognition-by-components theory?

When you listen to someone speaking a foreign language, the words seem to speed by in an unbroken string of sound.To a speaker of that language, the words seem separated.The Gestalt law that is operating here is the law of

The "indentations in the sand / bumps in the sand" example from your text illustrates

Explain how BOTH bottom-up and top-down processing are involved in the "Crystal running on the beach" example.

Generally, if we can see an object's geons, we are able to identify the object.This is known as the

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

You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of

In the "finding faces in a landscape" demonstration in your text, once you perceive a particular grouping of rocks as a face, it is often difficult not to perceive them this way.This is due to

Some neurons respond when we watch someone else do something.These are known as

The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate

Which of the following statements is most consistent with recognition-by-components theory?

The recognition-by-components approach proposes that there are a number of basic features such as

Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following examples?

Using the laws of perceptual organization, explain why humans are better equipped at dealing with the complexities of object perception than computers.