Chapter 2 - Practice Quiz

Question 1

Many researchers argue that face perception is “special”; we process faces in a different way than we process other visual stimuli. According to this perspective,

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we recognize faces in terms of their entire shape, rather than in terms of their isolated features.

Question 2

The template model of object recognition would have the most difficulty explaining

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how people recognize letters of the alphabet if you turned the letters upside-down.

Question 3

The “general mechanism approach” to speech perception argues that

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we use similar processes for both speech perception and other auditory perception tasks.

Question 4

The research on speech perception demonstrates that

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people use visual cues from the speaker’s mouth in order to perceive an ambiguous sound.

Question 5

According to the word superiority effect,

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we can recognize a letter faster and more accurately when it is part of a word, rather than when this letter appears by itself.

Question 6

According to the introductory discussion about perceptual processes,

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Perception requires both information from the stimulus and knowledge about previous perceptual experiences.

Question 7

The “o” sound in the word “dog” influences the position of your mouth when you pronounce the remainder of the word. This phenomenon is called

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coarticulation

Question 8

Chapter 2 discussed individual differences in the ability to recognize another person’s facial expressions. This research showed that individuals with schizophrenia are more likely than people in a control group

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to respond slowly.

Question 9

Which of the following statements about object recognition is correct?

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Regions of the cortex beyond the primary visual cortex are active when we identify complex objects.