Exam 2: Visual and Auditory Recognition

Suppose that you are looking at a simple geometric design. If you were to perceive it holistically you would

Rhodes' research indicates that people are generally accurate in guessing the ages of unfamiliar persons, based on their faces. This research has important implications for

In object recognition, an important problem with the feature-analysis approach is that

Chapter 2 discusses a study by Burton and his colleagues on people's ability to identify a face that is shown in a video security system. According to the results of this study,

Which of the following students provides the best, most complete definition of the term "perception"?

You are now reading a sentence on an examination. The actual stimulus (the words on the piece of paper) is called

The feature-analysis approach to object recognition argues that

The recognition-by-components theory argues that we recognize an object by

According to the general mechanism approach, speech perception can be explained by

Studies of speech perception show that

You can identify a letter more accurately when it appears in a word than when it does not. This phenomenon is called the

The primary visual cortex is located in the _______ lobe of the brain.

Suppose that you are listening to a lecture, and another student's chair squeaks loudly during the middle of a word, so that the middle of that word cannot be heard. Nonetheless, you do not detect any interruption in the word. This example is closest to which of the following cognitive phenomena?

When a study has high ecological validity,

Your friend Sophie said that she would call you at 8:00 p.m. When the phone rings at 8:00 p.m., you answer and say "Oh, hi, Sophie." Then you realize that the caller is a different friend with a similar voice, but somewhat higher pitched. Your initial error can be explained by

The template model of object recognition would have the most difficulty explaining

Which of the following is the best example of a geon?

Suppose that you are watching a television talk show. The picture on your TV set is clear, but the sound is somewhat muffled. If the visual information helps you interpret some of the words that the talk-show host is saying, you are demonstrating

Bottom-up processing

Imagine that you attend a lecture given by a guest lecturer. He emphasizes that people can recognize complex shapes and other visual images-such as animals and machinery-in terms of arrangements of basic 3-D shapes. This lecturer probably would be a strong supporter of which of the following approaches?