Learning Check 3

Question 1

Damage to the temporal lobe makes the _____ more difficult.

Answer 1

object discrimination or recognitition problem

Question 2

One problem with the Template Matching Theory of perception is that

Answer 2

we don’t have templates for every possible experience

Question 3

Patients with associative visual agnosia might be able to correctly draw or copy an image but not recognize what it is. This is an example of a

Answer 3

dissociation

Question 4

People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the

Answer 4

oblique effect

Question 5

The neurons that respond while watching a demonstrator perform a task are called

Answer 5

mirror neurons

Question 6

In which neurological disorder might mirror neurons be most likely to be implicated as a potential cause of the disorder?

Answer 6

Autism

Question 7

Generally, if we can see an object’s geons, we are able to identify the object. This is known as the

Answer 7

principles of componential recovery

Question 8

In Selfrige’s Pandamonium Model, features a stimulus are detected at alevel of the

Answer 8

Feature demon

Question 9

You are at a parade where there are a number of marching bands. You perceive the bands that are all in the same uniforms as being grouped together. The red uniforms are one band, the green uniforms another, and so forth. You have this perceptual experience because of the law of

Answer 9

similarity

Question 10

When a double dissociation’s occurs, that indicates that two functions

Answer 10

involves different mechanisms

Question 11

One problem with Selfrige’s Pandamonium Model is that it

Answer 11

can’t account for how we can process information both globally and locally

Question 12

Jane is four, and when playing in the park recently, she saw a dog that she’d never seen before. Even though she had never seen the dog, she was able to label the dog as being a dog. This scenario causes problems for which explanation of perception?

Answer 12

Template Matching Theory

Question 13

The pathway leading from the striate cortex in the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe is known as the

Answer 13

what pathway

Question 14

Selfridge’s Pandemonium Model describes processing at several levels or demons. The processing of vertical lines, horizontal lines, angles, or curves, for example, would occur at the level of the

Answer 14

feature demon

Question 15

Speech segmentation is defined as

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organizing the sounds of speech into individual words

Question 16

“Perceiving machines” are used by the U.S. Postal service to “read” the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of

Answer 16

top-down processing

Question 17

The likelihood principle states that

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we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received.

Question 18

The landmark or spacial discrimination problems are more difficult to do if you have damage to your _____lobe.

Answer 18

parietal

Question 19

Holllingsworth’s studies of blobs indicate that we perceive information based on

Answer 19

the situation of context

Question 20

The results of Gauthier’s “Greeble” experiment illustrate

Answer 20

an effect of experience-dependent plasticity.