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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?

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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?

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figure out what object created the image on the retina

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what is the inverse projection problem?

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the task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on the retina

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what is viewpoint invariance?

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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?

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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?

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environmental energy that stimulates receptors

knowledge and expectations that the observer brings to the situation

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what is bottom-up-processsing?

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the sequence of events from the eye to the brain

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describe the events in bottom-up processing

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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?

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processing that originates from the brain/ the top of the perceptual system

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what does top-down processing demonstrate?

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addition of information to the foundation

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what kind of processing allows for rapid identification of objects and scens?

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top-down

36
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what affects an object to be perceived as different objects?

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orientation and scene context

37
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what is the human advantage over computers?

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top-down knowledge

38
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what is speech segmentation?

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

39
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when people receive the same sound stimuli but perceive it differently, what does that suggest?

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experience influences perception

40
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describe bottom-up processing in auditory stimuli

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sounds entering the ears and triggers signals that are sent to areas of speech in the brain

41
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describe top-down processing in auditory stimuli

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understanding language allows creation of perception of the individual words

42
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what are transitional probabilities

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the likelihood that one sound will follow within a word

43
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what is statistical learning?

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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?

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Hermann and Helmhotz

45
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describe the likelihood principle

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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?

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our perceptions are a result of unconscious assumptions/inferences that we make about the environment

47
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in what direction did the Gestalt psychologists follow to explain perception of objects

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Wilhelm Wundt’s structuralism

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what did the Gestalt psychologists reject?

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the idea that sensations can be added up to form perception

49
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describe Max Wertheimer’s apparent movement

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the idea that although movement is perceived, nothing is actually moving

50
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what did Wertheimer say about the perceptual system?

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it creates the perception of movement from stationary images

51
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what do the principles of perceptual organization suggest

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the way elements are grouped to create larger objects

52
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name the 3 laws of perceptual organization

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principle of good continuation

law of pragnaz

principle of similarity

53
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describe the law or good continuation

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connected points forming lines are seen as belonging together and the lines tend to follow the smoothest path

54
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objects that are overlapped by other objects are perceived as continuing behind the overlapping object is part of what principle

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principle of good continuation

55
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describe the law of Prgnaz

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every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible

56
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describe the principle of similarity

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similar things appear to be grouped together

57
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name the 2 regularities of the environment

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physical

semantic

58
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describe physical regularities

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the regularly occurring physical properties of the environment

59
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describe the oblique effect

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people perceive horizontals and verticals more easily than orientations

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what is the light-from -above assumption

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assuming light is coming from above because the light in our environment usually comes from above

61
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how does the light-form-above assumption affect percpetion

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illuminated shapes are influenced by how they are shaded combined with the brain’s assumption

62
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describe semantic regularities

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the characteristics associated with the functions carried out in different types of scenes

63
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what is important when discussing semantic regularities

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the visualization of details within scenes

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what is a scene schema

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the knowledge of what a given scene typically contains

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what is Bayesian Inference

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suggests our estimate of the probability of an outcome is determined by prior probability and likelihood

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what is prior probability

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our initial belief about the probability of an outcome

67
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what is likelihood

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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

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bottom up orientated

69
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what is the theory of natural selection

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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?

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the idea that experience can shape the nervous system

71
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who used Greebles in their experiment to demonstrate how EDP plays a role in a neuron’s response to faces

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Isabel Gauthier

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how does movement facilitate perception

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helps perceive objects in the environment more accurately

reveals objects that are not apparent from a single viewpoint

73
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explain the importance of interaction of perception and action

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aids the coordination occurring between perceiving stimuli and taking action

74
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what is brain ablation

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the study of the effect of removing parts of the brain in animals

75
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neuropsychology is the study of

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behavior of people with brain damage

76
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Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin used what method on monkeys to study its ability to identify and locate an object

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brain ablation

77
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what is object discrimination?

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being able to identify an object

78
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what is landmark discrimination

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being able to locate an object

79
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removal of the temporal lobe affected what? which pathway was discovered in this part of the experiment?

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object discrimination

what/ventral pathway

80
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removal of the parietal lobe affected what? which pathway was discovered in this part of the experiment?

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landmark discrimination

where/dorsal pathway

81
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David Milner and Melvyn Goodale named the what and where pathways what?

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perception = what

action = where and how

82
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who investigated the monkey’s premotor cortex as a monkey performed an action

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Peligrino

83
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what are mirror neurons

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neurons that respond when one observes 2 different individuals repeat the same action

84
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what is the mirror neuron system

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mirror neurons are distributed throughout the brain in a network

85
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who studied mirror neurons using short films with the same action with different intentions

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Mario Iacoboni

86
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what did Iacoboni observe?

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intentions behind actions amplified brain activity more than no intentions

87
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what did Mario Iacoboni conclude about mirror neurons

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they are involved in understanding the intentions behind actions

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