Exam 3: Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects

The meaningful interpretation of a proximal stimulus is called the ______.

A certain computer can respond to a limited number of voice commands such as "Open file" and "Save data." However,it responds to only its owner's voice,and the owner must take care to pronounce the commands in a very precise manner.A command spoken by a voice of the wrong gender,the wrong accent,or in the wrong tone will not be recognized.This computer probably operates on a system of ______.

Why do we consider visual agnosias to be a problem of interpretation of visual information,rather than a problem of vision or of language?

The opposite of the theory of direct perception would be most directly viewed as the ______ approach.

Which of the following experiences most resembles visual search tasks like those conducted by Treisman and Gelade?

One problem with template-matching theory is that we would need an impossibly large set of templates in our memories.

Of the following,which best represents the perceptual notion of size constancy?

Researchers attached light bulbs to the shoulders,elbows,wrists,hips,knees,and ankles of a model wearing black clothing.In a dark room,with only the light bulbs visible,______.

A letter is easier to perceive in the context of a word.Which of the following models explains that fact by arguing that activation of the relevant node for the word also activates the nodes corresponding to the letters within the word?

Gibson's theory of direct perception is in direct opposition to the ______ approach to perception.

During an experiment by Reicher (1969),participants were asked to identify whether the letter D had been presented on the screen.Participants would be most likely to respond correctly if they had seen ______.

Expert wine tasters are able to identify not only a cabernet sauvignon,but also the actual year that it was bottled and the vineyard that produced it.This is a good example of ______.

In a study by Johansson (1973),a model had lights attached to key points of the body.In the dark,participants were only able to determine that the lights represented a person when ______.

When scanning words to count the occurrences of the letter "H," in which word would you be most likely to MISS an occurrence of the letter?

Context effects provide a problem for top-down theories of perception.

According to Gibson's theory,the acts or behaviors permitted by objects,places,and events are called ______.

Which best describes Marr's constructivist approach to perception?

The perceiver's expectations guide pattern recognition through top-down processes.

According to Biederman's featural analysis theory of perception,just as we have ______ as units of language,we have ______ as units of visual perception.

It is easier to recognize the letter "X" within the word "TEXT" than the letter "X" presented on its own.