Exam 5: Perception

The problem of deciding, as you move from one view to the next, which elements in the second view correspond with elements from the first view, is called the __________.

Geons are __________.

A subject is asked to locate a horizontal line in an array of vertical lines. Which of the following statements is true?

A ball is moving on a table. As what does the table serve?

If you are sitting on a stationary train and see another train on an adjacent parallel track start to move in a direction opposite to the one in which you are facing, you sometimes get the sensation of yourself moving forward. This phenomenon is referred to as __________.

Which statement is the best explanation of mondegreens?

Which of the following is proposed as an intermediate perceptual component in models of object recognition?

Participants who are told that they are about to see a word that represents a musical instrument will recognize the word guitar __________ participants who are told they are about to see a word that represents a form of transportation. This occurs because of __________.

You are standing on a bridge over a moving river. All of a sudden you feel as if you and the bridge are moving, not the water below the bridge. What is this phenomenon called?

What are feature detectors?

What would happen if you suddenly experienced an involuntary twitch of one of your eye muscles?

Individuals who suffer severe attention deficits because of parietal lobe damage are most likely to only be able to do which task?

Priming refers to __________.

Size constancy refers to perceiving objects as __________.

The pathway that carries information to the parietal cortex is called the __________.

Under what conditions will the world seem to jump to the right?

A participant who is shown only part of a word would most likely employ which of the following methods to guess the rest of the word?

What are head turning, quick eye movements, and finger movements all manifestations of?

Your friend places a spiral figure on the table and spins it in a clockwise direction. Rather than you seeing it as __________, you perceive it to be __________.

As you look down a long street, the buildings on the right side of the street seem to be getting closer to the buildings on the left side of the street. Of what is this apparent convergence an example?