Exam 3: Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects

According to the ______ model,the word superiority effect occurs because a letter presented in the context of a word activates not only the relevant node for the word,but also each of the letters within the word.

______ are to visual perception what phonemes are to language,according to Biederman.

Of the following,which theory of perception does NOT require input to exactly match representation or perception?

Visual agnosias represent impairments in the ability to ______.

A book on a shelf represents a good example of a ______.

After damage to his left parietal cortex,John begins to ignore washing the right side of his face and body and doesn't comb the right side of his hair.He is likely suffering from ______.

When you let go of a balloon and it floats away from you into the sky,the size of the retinal image gets smaller and smaller.However,you do not perceive the balloon as shrinking.This is an example of ______.

Which of the following represents a good example of a proximal stimulus?

Studies using the odd-quadrant discrimination task have shown that perception of the "odd stimulus out" is ______.

Vesuvian creatures fly in from outer space,and their sensory receptors are studied.It is observed that their dominant sensory system is haptic (touch),and that certain receptors seem to respond selectively to softness,others selectively to certain temperatures,and others selectively to smoothness.Knowing only this information,you might conclude that the best explanation for Vesuvian perceptual experience may come from ______.

Anne is driving down a residential street on a Saturday afternoon and expects that she may see children playing outside on such a sunny,warm day.Out of the corner of her eye,she detects movement between two parked cars at the side of the road.She immediately presses the brake,interpreting the movement as that of a child.Later she is relieved to see that the movement came from an empty paper bag that is blowing in the wind.Anne's initial perception of the movement as that of a child can best be explained through the notion of ______.

Which of the following would be most accurate under a connectionist view of perception?