Exam 4: Perceptual Learning and Memory

Hock and his colleagues (1984) found that success in classifying large dot patterns could not be explained by __________.

Discuss the neurobiological basis of perceptual skill learning. Provide the research evidence that supports your answer.

Perceptual learning and memory is a type of ___________ memory.

Research shows that people can strongly categorize ___________ faces and do not categorize ________ faces.

The word stem completion task is an example of a repetition priming.

Generally, participants with amnesia do ________ on a cued recall than on a free recall.

_____________ occurs when we are able to identify stimuli that vary along a continuum as a meaningful category.

In a series of experiments, it was found that participants had a better cognitive memory for a set of words when they were:

Perceptual memories are specific to __________.

Findings from Cohen and Squire's (1984) key study supported the idea that _______.

In a series of experiments, it was found that participants had better priming for a set of words when they were:

Explain how perceptual skill training has been used to offset deficits in those with perceptual disorders.

In a seminal study, Tulving (1982) found that recognition memory was best on the ______ but decreased on the _____ test.

An individual with damage to the occipital lobe often has impaired perceptual priming but intact conceptual priming.

In the Graf et. al. (1984) study, normal participants did better in _____ than in ______.

Typically, perceptual learning is nonassociative.

Which of the following is not a main property of perceptual skill learning?

When participants were able to sleep following perceptual learning, they had ______ retention of what was learned than those who were kept awake.

The patient H.M. did well at identifying the segmented pictures but he could not __________.

Perceptual skill learning is the memory for a specific stimulus.