Exam 3: Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects

There may or may not be a particular dog that looks exactly like your prototype dog,according to prototype-matching theory.

A theorist from which of the following backgrounds would be likely to endorse the idea that we,rightly or wrongly,interpret visual information based on the most easily distinguishable pattern that our minds can make sense of?

In David Marr's model of vision,which stage of the process incorporates primarily bottom-up knowledge?

The theory of direct perception by ______ suggests that we obtain all necessary perceptual information from the environment.

When common objects such as kitchen utensils are presented in a jumbled display,_____.

Reversible figures illustrate the principle of ______.

Face perception most closely matches to what theory of perceptual psychology?

A patient with associative agnosia would ______

Images as they appear on the retina ______.

The two best studied forms of perception are ______.

All of the following are problematic for a theory of template matching EXCEPT ______.

A tree on the horizon is an example of a proximal stimulus.

In composite face illusion,when participants view two faces with identical top halves but separate bottom halves,participants tend to perceive those top halves as ______.

Participants in Gibson's perceptual learning experiments ______.

Which of the following is true regarding retinal images?

Patients with ______ can see contours or outlines of a drawing,but have difficulty matching or categorizing objects.

Prototype matching theory argues that percepts are compared to ______ in memory.

The primal sketch in David Marr's theory allows viewers to _____.

Reversible figures are an example of the process known as figure-ground organization.

A general approach that explains perception as the pickup of environmental invariances that require little or no active interpretation is called ______.