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CHAPTER 3 - PERCEPTION Flashcards

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define sensation

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reception of stimulation from the environment and the initial encoding of that stimulation into the nervous system

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for visual input what body part is used for sensation

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eyes

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name the photoreceptors of the eye

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cones and rods

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what is a saccade?

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the quick movement of the eyes from one location to another

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how long does a saccade last?

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25-175 milliseconds

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what is fixation?

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the brief period when the eyes stop moving and process the visual scene

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what is the area in the eye that has no cones or rods?

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the blind spot

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what happens to the sensory information when it reaches the blind spot

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goes through the optic nerve to the brain

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define perception

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experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses

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what occurs during perception?

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process of interpreting and understanding information

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what was George Sperling’s first experiment in 1960?

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challenged the concept of perceptual span and introduced iconic memory

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what is perceptual span?

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the number if items one can report from a brief display that does not allow eye movement

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what is the predicted perceptual span?

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4.5 items

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name the 2 kinds of reports Sperling had his participants do

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whole and partial

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what is a whole report?

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trying to report everything that was presented

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what is a partial report?

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trying to report only the cued portion of the display

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how did Sperling revise his experiment?

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using digits and letters and had 3 kinds of report

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what were the 3 new reports of Sperling’s revised?

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whole, partial (spatial/row), and partial (categorial/type)

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define a template

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a pattern treated as an unanalyzed whole

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what is a feature?

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a separable element of a pattern

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Describe Averbach and Coriell’s revised experiment

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cued only one location to reduce memory demands even more

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how did Averbach and Coriell replicate Sperling’s results?

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using a bar marker and a circle

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what were the conclusions of these experiences about perceptual span

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perceptual span is not a good measure of what is perceived

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what concluded about iconic memory?

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an iconic image persists after an array disappears and it decays/is lost very rapidly

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what kind of process is perception similar too?
the process of reasoning or problem solving and can change based on added information
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what is the perceptual system's job?
figure out what object created the image on the retina
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what is the inverse projection problem?
the task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on the retina
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what is viewpoint invariance?
the ability to recognize an object even when it is seen from different viewpoints
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why does a scene have high level information?
has many objects and may have information that requires figuring out
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what are the 2 types of information used by the human perceptual system?
environmental energy that stimulates receptors knowledge and expectations that the observer brings to the situation
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what is bottom-up-processsing?
the sequence of events from the eye to the brain
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describe the events in bottom-up processing
looking at something to create an image on the retina electrical signals go from the retina to the visual receiving area of the brain
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what is top-down processing?
processing that originates from the brain/ the top of the perceptual system
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what does top-down processing demonstrate?
addition of information to the foundation
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what kind of processing allows for rapid identification of objects and scens?
top-down
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what affects an object to be perceived as different objects?
orientation and scene context
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what is the human advantage over computers?
top-down knowledge
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what is speech segmentation?
the ability to tell when one word in a conversation ends and the next one begins
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when people receive the same sound stimuli but perceive it differently, what does that suggest?
experience influences perception
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describe bottom-up processing in auditory stimuli
sounds entering the ears and triggers signals that are sent to areas of speech in the brain
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describe top-down processing in auditory stimuli
understanding language allows creation of perception of the individual words
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what are transitional probabilities
the likelihood that one sound will follow within a word
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what is statistical learning?
the process of learning transitional probabilities and about another characteristic of language
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who contributed to the idea that perception involved the realization that the image on the retina is ambiguous?
Hermann and Helmhotz
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describe the likelihood principle
states that we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received
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what is unconscious reference?
our perceptions are a result of unconscious assumptions/inferences that we make about the environment
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in what direction did the Gestalt psychologists follow to explain perception of objects
Wilhelm Wundt's structuralism
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what did the Gestalt psychologists reject?
the idea that sensations can be added up to form perception
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describe Max Wertheimer's apparent movement
the idea that although movement is perceived, nothing is actually moving
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what did Wertheimer say about the perceptual system?
it creates the perception of movement from stationary images
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what do the principles of perceptual organization suggest
the way elements are grouped to create larger objects
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name the 3 laws of perceptual organization
principle of good continuation law of pragnaz principle of similarity
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describe the law or good continuation
connected points forming lines are seen as belonging together and the lines tend to follow the smoothest path
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objects that are overlapped by other objects are perceived as continuing behind the overlapping object is part of what principle
principle of good continuation
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describe the law of Prgnaz
every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible
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describe the principle of similarity
similar things appear to be grouped together
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name the 2 regularities of the environment
physical | semantic
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describe physical regularities
the regularly occurring physical properties of the environment
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describe the oblique effect
people perceive horizontals and verticals more easily than orientations
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what is the light-from -above assumption
assuming light is coming from above because the light in our environment usually comes from above
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how does the light-form-above assumption affect percpetion
illuminated shapes are influenced by how they are shaded combined with the brain's assumption
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describe semantic regularities
the characteristics associated with the functions carried out in different types of scenes
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what is important when discussing semantic regularities
the visualization of details within scenes
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what is a scene schema
the knowledge of what a given scene typically contains
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what is Bayesian Inference
suggests our estimate of the probability of an outcome is determined by prior probability and likelihood
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what is prior probability
our initial belief about the probability of an outcome
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what is likelihood
the extent to which the available evidence is consistent with the outcome
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what processing does the Gestalt psychologists use in comparison to the other 3 approaches
bottom up orientated
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what is the theory of natural selection
states that the characteristics that enhances an animal's ability to survive and reproduce will be passed on to future generations
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what does experience-dependent plasticity provide?
the idea that experience can shape the nervous system
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who used Greebles in their experiment to demonstrate how EDP plays a role in a neuron's response to faces
Isabel Gauthier
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how does movement facilitate perception
helps perceive objects in the environment more accurately reveals objects that are not apparent from a single viewpoint
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explain the importance of interaction of perception and action
aids the coordination occurring between perceiving stimuli and taking action
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what is brain ablation
the study of the effect of removing parts of the brain in animals
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neuropsychology is the study of
behavior of people with brain damage
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Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin used what method on monkeys to study its ability to identify and locate an object
brain ablation
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what is object discrimination?
being able to identify an object
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what is landmark discrimination
being able to locate an object
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removal of the temporal lobe affected what? which pathway was discovered in this part of the experiment?
object discrimination what/ventral pathway
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removal of the parietal lobe affected what? which pathway was discovered in this part of the experiment?
landmark discrimination where/dorsal pathway
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David Milner and Melvyn Goodale named the what and where pathways what?
perception = what action = where and how
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who investigated the monkey's premotor cortex as a monkey performed an action
Peligrino
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what are mirror neurons
neurons that respond when one observes 2 different individuals repeat the same action
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what is the mirror neuron system
mirror neurons are distributed throughout the brain in a network
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who studied mirror neurons using short films with the same action with different intentions
Mario Iacoboni
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what did Iacoboni observe?
intentions behind actions amplified brain activity more than no intentions
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what did Mario Iacoboni conclude about mirror neurons
they are involved in understanding the intentions behind actions

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