Exam 7: Taking Action

 One researcher found that tennis players who have recently won a match perceive the net as being lower than those who have recently lost. Describe how these differences in perception might arise.

What are affordances (b) Provide an example of an object and what action it affords. (c) Describe whether or not an object could have more than one affordance associated with it.

 The neurons that signal the monkey's intention to grab an object are mostly found in the _____.

 Information that remains constant even though the observer is moving is called _____.

 The ecological approach emerged as a reaction _____.

 When novices close their eyes when trying a somersault, _____.

 Elena looks at a banana and realizes that the banana is "eat-able." This an example of _____.

 In Lee and Aronson's experiment, although a few of the toddlers were unaffected by the sway, _____ fell down, even though the floor remained stationary throughout the entire experiment!

 M.P., a person with brain damage that resulted in the inability to name objects, could _____.

 The ecological approach was developed by _____.

 The _____ perception hypothesis states that people perceive their environment in terms of their ability to act on it.

 Gibson emphasized studying _____.

 Mirror neurons in the monkey fire _____.

 The swinging room experiments showed that _____.

 Neurons in the premotor cortex, called _____ mirror neurons, respond when a monkey performs a hand action and when it hears the sound associated with this action

 Fattori and coworkers (2012) discovered neurons called _____ cells; these responded not only when a monkey was preparing to grasp a specific object, but also when but also when the monkey viewed that specific object.

 Proposed functions of mirror neurons include their role in _____.

 Describe evidence from monkey studies that suggests that mirror neurons do more than respond to patterns of motion.

 In Janzen and vanTurennout's study of using landmarks as "decision points" in a navigating through a museum, participants _____.

 According to Gibson, the relationship between movement and flow is _____.