Exam 3: Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects

Which of the following poses a problem for featural analysis theory?

A stencil provides a good analogy for the theory of ______.

Subjective contours are thought to ______.

Connectionist models assume all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Marr's primal sketch would NOT give you which of the following pieces of information?

A process of perception,beginning with small bits of information gathered from the environment and put together in various ways to form a percept,would be described as ______.

According to Gibson's theory,viewers directly perceive ______.

Posner and Keele's research on prototype formation suggests that _____.

Which of the following examples would be most illustrative of the template-matching theory of perception?

One model of perception emphasizes that a percept is compared to idealized representations in memory of every class of information,and matched to the one it most closely approximates.This model is known as ______.

Gibson's theory of direct perception and affordances most directly illustrate the link between ______.

The segregation of a whole display into objects and background is known as ______.

The broad range of perceptual phenomena in which the interpretation of visual information is impaired are known as ______.

Subjective contours are related to the Gestalt principle of similarity.

When are retinal images distorted compared to their real-world counterparts?

When something out in the world physiologically activates and its information reaches the eye,it would be referred to as a(n)______.

Research on the categorical perception of speech sounds supports the ______ theory.

We see the following figure as a set of four-colored columns rather than four multi-colored rows because of the Gestalt principle of______.

Discuss one problem with template matching as an explanation for perception.

Researchers have demonstrated the use of some Gestalt principles by the age of ______.