Exam 3: Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects

A patient with prosopagnosia has difficulty recognizing ______.

A person with prosopagnosia would not be able to recognize the face of his or her spouse.

Which of the following Gestalt principles relies on movement?

Imagine yourself in a perceptual experiment where you are shown four letters,and asked to report the letter that is underlined (only one letter per trial is underlined),given the two choices that follow it.Imagine each of the three stimuli (which would be presented one at a time). Trial I: screen 1: K E L P;screen 2: D or K Trial II: screen 1: K;screen 2: D or K Trial III: screen 1: K P L E;screen 2: D or K What predictions would you make about the average participant's relative speed on these three trials?

When you observe a chair,you immediately are able to detect what material it is made of,how much weight it can hold,and how you might sit in it.This best illustrates which idea in direct perception?

According to the text,which of the following includes top-down perceptual processes?

Draw examples of three Gestalt principles.

There is no neurological evidence to support the theory of featural analysis.

According to the text,which of the following is not an example of bottom-up perception?

All Gestalt principles follow the law of ______.

The finding by Johansson (1973)that participants could detect that lights in the dark were actually a person with lights attached to key body parts is an example of how ______ aid(s)in perception.

How is a prototype different from a template? How are prototypes formed?

When we see a flock of birds flying through the sky,our first instinct is to view them as a large singular group instead of many individual birds.However,if one bird suddenly split from the flock and flew in a different direction,you'd have no problem distinguishing it from the rest of the flock.This best illustrates which Gestalt principle?

In David Marr's model of vision,which stage of the process incorporates top-down knowledge?

Of the following,which is used in order to create a 2½-D sketch under Marr's theory of vision?

Describe the word superiority effect.Does it support the importance of bottom-up,or top-down,processes?

Gestalt psychologists explain the phenomenon of subjective contours through reference to the principle of ______.

Susan is presented with four different computer-generated syllables.The voice onset times for the initial consonants of these sounds are -.1 seconds,.01 seconds,.05 seconds,and .1 seconds.Susan actually "hears" ______ different consonant sounds.

Which of the following best describes our current understanding of perception as a cognitive process?

Neisser's research utilizing a visual search of the array below showed that ______.