Perception Exam 2 Question Study Guide

Scientist sometimes conduct ___ studies on animals, in which sections of their brain are surgically excised to see how it affects their behavior.

Lesion

The term “grandmother cell” refers to a nueron that ____

Responds best to one specific object

A failure to recognize objects visually despite having the ability to see them

Agnosia

A ___ process is one that carries out one neural step after another, without the need for feedback from a later stage to an earlier stage

Feed-Forward

Arrow ontop of circle figure depicts:

Illusory Contours

If you attempt to understand perception by breaking it down into its basic sensory components, which philosophical approach are you following?

Structuralist

Gestalt psychologists emphasize that ___

the perceptual whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Which gestalt grouping principle suggests that elements that are close to each other tend to be seen as grouped together?

Proximity

Which Gestalt grouping cue explains why a flock of birds flying in formation are perceived to be grouped?

Common Fate

When one object covers another object, that is known as ___

Occlusion

Which of the following lists the steps in color perception in the correct order?

Detection, Discrimination, Appearance

Which photoreceptors are most active when looking at a blue sky?

S-cones

What type of lighting conditions occur during the daytime in full sunlight?

Photopic

According to the principle of univariance, which genetic difference in color vision would cause someone to be truly color blind?

Cone Monochromat

How many lights are required to match any color that humans can see?

3

Mixing paints to create new colors is an example of ____ color mixing, while shining lights to create new colors is an example of ____ color mixing.

Subtractive, Additive

According to the opponent color theory, the perception of color is based on the output of ____ cones, each of them an opponency between ____ colors.

three, two

Which of the following is NOT a unique hue?

Magenta

A(n) _____ is an individual who suffers from color blindness that is due to the absence of S-cones

Tritanope

What is the term for an inability to name objects or colors despite being able to see and recognize them?

Anomia

The philosophical position arguing that there is a real world to sense is known as ____

Realism

According to Euclidean geometry, parallel lines _____ as they extend through space.

remain parallel

_____ is the difference between two retinal images of the same scene and is the basis of steropsis

Binocular Disparity

Which of the following is NOT a monocular cue?

Convergence

Using the depth cue of _____ you can tell how far away something is based on how much detail is visible in the elements on the ground between you and the object

Texture Gradient

When driving in a car, the fact that light posts by the side of the road move faster across your eye than do the distance buildings is the visual cue known as _____

Motion Parallax

If a fly lands on your nose and you turn your eyes to look inward at it, what kind of eye movement are you making?

Convergent

The process by which the eye changes its focus by adjusting the lens is called _____

Accommodation

During free fusion, the eyes _____ in order to view a stereogram without a stereoscope

Converge or Diverge

The problem of determining which bit of the image in the left eye should be matched with which bit of image in the right eye is known as _____

Correspondence problem

In the figure, the viewer mistakes the two horizontal lines to be ____

of different lengths

_____ disrupts binocular vision because one or both eyes are not aligned properly

Strabismus

There is more information in the world than we can process at once. What do we call processing some information at the expense of other information?

Attention

A ____ is a stimulus that might indicate where (or what) a subsequent stimulus might be

Cue

The ____ is the period of time between the onset of one stimulus and the onset of another.

Stimulus onset asynchrony

In a probe detection experiment, an invalid cue is a

cue that signals the wrong location of the target

According to the ____ theory, attention moves from point to point

Spotlight of attention

Looking around a room and trying to find the coffee mug that you misplaced is an example of

Visual search

In a ____ task, the target is defined by the presence of a single feature, or attribute, such as color or orientation.

Feature search