Chapter 16

Question 1

ambiguous figure

Answer 1

a figure that can be perceived in two (or more) different ways

Question 2

selective attention

Answer 2

the ability to allocate attentional resources and to focus on a specific topic

Question 3

speed of processing

Answer 3

the time it takes for the brain to either receive or output information, or the speed with which a mental calculation can be carried out

Question 4

white matter

Answer 4

myelinated axons that carry information from one neuron to another

Question 5

encoding switch hypothesis

Answer 5

different information about faces is represented in memory by children at different ages. it is suggested that young children rely on information about individual features (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth) in recognising faces, whereas older children and adults use information about the configuration of the features

Question 6

feature processing

Answer 6

a tendency to process the separate features of the face, as opposed to perceiving the relationship between the parts