Chapter 3 Practice Quizzes

. What is perception?

The ability to store information in memory

The process of giving information meaning

The process of changing information into a neural impulse

The ability to select one message amongst numerous messages

. John was unable to identify the fork that was at the table in front of him, but after it was placed directly in his hand he knew instantly that it was indeed a fork. Which condition does John likely have?

Alzheimer's disease

Broca's aphasia

Visual agnosia

Blindsight

. What controls the pupil size?

Fovea

Lens

Retina

Iris

. Achromatopsia refers to a deficiency in perception of ________.

space

colour

motion

faces

. According to Gibson's theory of ecological optics, when looking at your environment, you can observe a number of affordances that help guide perception. Which of the following is NOT one of those affordances?

Gradient of texture density

Topological breakage

Principle of simplicity

Scatter-reflection

. Which theory of perception involves three-dimensional geons that are combined to form objects?

Recognition by components (RBC)

Feature integration theory (FIT)

Pandemonium model of perception

Parallel distributed processing model

. What does the fcat taht you can raed tihs snetecne desrtomnate?

The jumbled word effect

That context influences perception

That top-down processing influences perception

All of the above

. Why is Purves and Lotto's empirical theory of colour vision important?

It shows that colours are only perceived based on the wavelengths of their light.

It shows that prior experience and context can influence how we perceive colours.

It shows that recognition by components theory accounts for colour perception.

It shows that top-down processing is incapable of modifying objective perceptions.

. Imagine you were watching an online newscast and you felt like you perceived the word "date," but the newscaster was talking about something to do with bait and gates. What did you experience?

The transient speech effect

An echo

The word superiority effect

The McGurk effect

. Which of Katz's basic principles of organization groups together visual elements that are close to one another?

Principle of proximity

Principle of parallelism

Principle of symmetry

Principle of similarity

. Which area of the retina is densely packed with photoreceptors?

Retinotopic area

Fovea

Cornea

Optic nerve

. Pashler, Johnston and Ruthruff (2001) suggest that perception is a result of ________.

bottom-up influences

top-down influences

both bottom-up and top-down influences

neither bottom-up nor top-down influences

. The temporal cortex is NOT involved in recognizing ________.

the orientation of line segments

places

faces

body parts

. The inability to reach for objects is known as ________ and is a result of damage to the ________ visual pathway.

visual agnosia; ventral

optic ataxia; ventral

visual agnosia; dorsal

optic ataxia; dorsal

. In Hintzman's multiple-trace memory model, a memory trace in secondary memory is activated if it is similar to ________.

an echo

a percept

a probe

a prototype

. Which of the following is NOT a theory of pattern recognition discussed in the textbook?

Feature detection theory

Recognition by components theory

Template matching theory

Theory of ecological optics

. It is estimated that a feedforward sweep of information from the primary visual cortex down the ventral and dorsal pathways takes about ________.

1 millisecond

10 milliseconds

100 milliseconds

1000 milliseconds

. According to Biederman's recognition by components theory, a critical part of object recognition is ________.

matching the object to a geon template

deconstructing the object into its constituent geons

comparing the object to a memory trace echo of geons

having fewer geons to speed up processing of the object

. Consider the following scenario: you are viewing a painting of a forest scene, which contains trees and large rocks, but you perceive there to be human faces as well, when in fact there are no human faces in the painting. Which Gestalt principle would most likely account for your perception of human faces when none actually exist in the viewed painting?

Principle of similarity

Principle of proximity

Principle of symmetry

Principle of experience

. In the study by Witt and Proffitt (2005), it was noted that the perceived size of a baseball was positively correlated with batting average. What is the general conclusion that can be drawn from this?

Perception was influenced by context.

Perception was not influenced by context.

It supports the principle of common movement.

It supports the principle of experience.

. Historically, the study of perception has taken multimodal sensory experience into account.

True

False

. Subjective-distance theory can account for why the moon seems bigger when it is closer to the horizon and smaller when it is high in the sky.

True

False

. Our hearing can influence our perception of flavor.

True

False

. Another name for "motion blindness" is "akinetopsia."

True

False

. The visual prepotency effect suggests that our visual system is not as effective as hearing and touch in processing alerting stimuli.

True

False

. Features with low contrast energy tend to be squelched by the visual system.

True

False

. The Gestalt approach to perception is best described as atomistic.

True

False

. If an individual had visual agnosia, you would expect damage to the dorsal pathway.

True

False

. Information about the edges of objects is obtained from topological breakage.

True

False

. The first structure of the eye that light passes through is the pupil.

True

False

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