Chapter 3 (Perception)

Question 1

you have perceived patterns, objects, people, and events in the world

Answer 1

perception

Question 2

objects or events to perceive

Answer 2

distal stimulus

Question 3

reception of information and its registration by a sense organ

Answer 3

proximal stimulus

Question 4

the image reflected onto the back of the retina

Answer 4

retinal image

Question 5

meaningful interpretation of the proximal stimulus

Answer 5

percept

Question 6

the difference of perception vs the retinal image

Answer 6

size constancy

Question 7

recognition of a particular object as belonging to a class of objects, events

Answer 7

pattern recognition

Question 8

segregation of the whole display into objects and the background

Answer 8

form perception

Question 9

means that the perceiver starts with small bits of information from the environment and combines in various ways to form a percept

Answer 9

bottom-up processing

Question 10

the perceivers expactions, theories, or concepts guide the selection and combination of the information in the pattern recogntion process

Answer 10

top-down

Question 11

bottom-up perception models

Answer 11

template matching, feature analysis, prototype matching

Question 12

every object that we encounter and want to derive meaning from is compared to previously stored pattern or template

Answer 12

template matching

Question 13

break them down into their components

Answer 13

feature analysis

Question 14

the model where there are image demons, feature demons, letter demons, and decision demon

Answer 14

pandemonium model

Question 15

explain perception in terms of matching an input to a stored representation of information, an idealized representation of some object

Answer 15

prototype matching

Question 16

depicts areas of relative brightness and darkness

Answer 16

primal sketch

Question 17

viewer uses primal sketch to care 2 1/2-D image

Answer 17

two-and-a-half-dimensional sketch

Question 18

inability to detect changes to an object or scene when given different views of that scene

Answer 18

change blindness

Question 19

participants could accurately identify letters presented in the context of words than non words

Answer 19

word superiority effect

Question 20

when readers are more like to miss a letter in some types of words

Answer 20

missing letter efect

Question 21

describes people as adding to and distoring information in the proximal stimulus to obtain a percept

Answer 21

constructivist approach to perception

Question 22

believe that the perceiver does very little work in perception

Answer 22

direct perception

Question 23

the acts or behaviours permitted by ojects places, and events

Answer 23

affordances

Question 24

impairments in the ability to interpret visual information

Answer 24

visual agnosia

Question 25

can see contours of a drawing or object but have a very difficult time matching one object with another

Answer 25

apperceptive agnosia

Question 26

can match objects, but tend to do so very slowly

Answer 26

associative agnosia

Question 27

specific visual agnosia for faces

Answer 27

prosopagnosia

Question 28

have explicit face recognition, but impaired implicit facial recognition

Answer 28

capgras syndrome