ch 3 perception

Question 1

bottom up processing

Answer 1

environmental energy stimulates receptor

Question 2

top down processing

Answer 2

originates in the brain-prior knowledge that enables use to rapidly identify objects and scene

Question 3

speech segmentation

Answer 3

the ability to tell when one word in a conversation ends and the next one begins

Question 4

helmholtz’s theory of unconscious perception

Answer 4

likelihood principle (we perceive objects that is most likely to have caused stimuli) and unconscious inference (our perception is result of unconscious assumptions)

Question 5

gestalt principles organization

Answer 5

various principles that account for how we perceive objects

Question 6

bayesian inference

Answer 6

thomas bayes proposed that our estimate of the probability of an outcome is determined by prior probability and likelihood

Question 7

what did blakemore and coopers cat experiment demonstrate

Answer 7

experience-dependent plasiticity: the shaping of neural respondence by experience (oblique effect as well)

Question 8

what pathway

Answer 8

neural pathway that reaches the temporal lobes that is responsible for determining an objects identity- ventral pathway

Question 9

where pathway

Answer 9

a pathway that leads to the parietal lobes to determine an objects location-dorsal pathway

Question 10

spatial localization

Answer 10

important source information for auditory system abt where a sound came from