Exam 4: Perceptual Learning and Memory

When participants are asked to recollect the words they just studied it is called a _______.

During a study, participants were presented with a series of five-letter words followed by a reexposure to fragments of the words. This experimenter was using ___________ to test perceptual memory.

In perceptual skill learning it is better if the person remembers the trained stimulus or the parameters of learning a skill.

When priming occurs of entire categories of words it is called ________ priming.

The ability to discriminate stimuli at a finer grain than is supported by the acuity of individual receptors is called ________.

The ________ depends heavily on cognitive memory, while the ______ assesses priming.

Key studies that found priming outside of system that drives cognitive memory have been done successfully on _______.

During a memory task, if you were to pay close attention to a particular stimulus feature the process is called _________.

Discuss the findings for the research question, "Are faces perceived categorically?"

Déjà vu could be explained by perceptual memory as being a:

An amnesic generally has impaired cued recall as well as stem completion.

Researchers found that compared to the novice, professional wine tasters could _________.

When we are able to distinguish an object according to its relevant features it is called _____________.

As part of a study, Steve was asked to rapidly judge if a string of letters flashed on a screen was a legitimate word. This technique is called a __________.

On a Stroop test, amnestics performed _____ controls at learning color-word associations.

Which of the following skills does perceptual learning NOT involve?

Categorical perception of phonemes is very important to identify words across different speakers and accents.

Brain scans during an experiment where participants had to judge the tilt of a set of parallel lines compared to a 45-degree orientation showed high activity in the visual cortex.

If a participant is looking at a picture of a common object drawn in a segmented line he is most likely looking at the _______.

Studies have shown that people with deficits related to a sensory cortex development disorder might respond well to _____________.