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Perception Flashcards

Exam 1

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1
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What is sensation?

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Absorbing raw energy through our sensory organs

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What is transduction?

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Conversion of sensation energy to neuronal signals

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What is attention?

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Concentration of mental energy to process incoming information

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What is perception?

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Selecting, organizing, and interpreting these signals

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Perception is

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experience resulting from stimulation of the senses

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Perception can change based on

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added information

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Are perceptual processes unique to humans?

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It is very possible

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How is artificial intelligence handling perception?

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There has been minimal successes

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Two types of information intake in the perceptual system

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  1. Environmental energy stimulating the receptors
  2. Knowledge and expectations the observer brings to the situation
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What is the direct perception theory?

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Bottom-up processing

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What is bottom-up processing?

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Bringing information in from the outside world; starts with the senses

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What is the constructive perception theory?

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Top-Down Processing

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What is top-down processing?

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Using information based on expectations and past experiences to construct perceptions; Starts with brain

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What processes do the “multiple personalities of a blob” use?

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Top-down influences allow different people to create different inferences

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Speech segmentation

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The ability to tell when one word ends and another begins

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Transitional probabilities

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Knowing which sound will likely follow another in a word (pre-tty ba-by)

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Transitional probabilities are an example of ________ Processing

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Top-Down; Uses prior knowledge to string words together

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18
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We use our _____________ to inform our perceptions

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Knowledge

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Some perceptions are the results of ________________ we make about the envionment

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Unconscious assumptions

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The Likelihood Principle

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We perceive the world in the way that is “most likely” based on our past experiences

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21
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Helmholtz’s Unconscious inference

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Blue square in front of orange square is interpreted as two normal sized squares

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What was the old-view of perceptual organization?

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Structuralism

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What is structuralism?

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Perception involves adding up sensations; Bottom-up

24
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What is the new-view of perceptual organization?

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Gestalt Principles

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What are the Gestalt Principles?

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The mind groups patterns according to intrinsic laws of perceptual organization

26
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Principle of good continuation (Gestalt 1)

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Lines tend to be seen as following the smoothest path; rope on the beach

27
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Law of Pragnanz (Principle of simplicity or good figure) (Gestalt 2)

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Every stimulus pattern is seen so the resulting structure is as simple as possible; Olympic Rings

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Principle of similarity (Gestalt 3)

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Similar things are grouped together; Blue and red balls

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Principle of familiarity (Gestalt 4)

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Things are more likely to form groups if the groups appear familiar or meaningful; The Forest has Eyes

30
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Perception is determined by Specific ______________, not just dark and _______

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Organizing Principles; light stimuli activating the retina

31
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Experience can ____________ perception but is not the key driver

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influence

32
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Oblique Effect

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We perceive verticals and horizontals more easily than other orientations

33
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Light-from-above Assumption

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We assume light comes from above because this is common in our environment

34
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What are sematic regularities?

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The characteristics associated with functions carried out in different types of scenes (Ex: Food and cooking will be done in the kitchen, while bagging and packing will be done in an airport)

35
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Scene Schema

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Knowledge of what a given scene ordinarily contains; diamonds or fish and chips at ring store

36
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Conceptions of Top-down processing

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Unconscious inference and environmental regularities

37
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Conceptions of Bottom-up processing

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Gestalt-principles

38
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Neurons become tuned to respond best to what we commonly experience; for example ___

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horizontals and verticals; experience-dependent plasticity

39
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What did Gauthier’s Greeble experiment prove? *

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The FFA can be trained to respond to new stimuli over extensive training

40
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Why did facial stimuli decrease after Greeble training?*

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Experience-dependent plasticity; The Greebles were looked at for hours, so human faces stopped stimulating anymore; The FFA is adaptive.

41
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The What Pathway

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Determining the Identity of an object

42
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What is another name for the What pathway

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Ventral/Perception Pathway (lower part of the brain)

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The Where Pathway

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Determining the location of an object

44
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What is another name for the Where pathway?

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Dorsal/Action Pathway (Upper part of brain)

45
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What cortex do the What and Where pathways move out of?

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Visual cortex

46
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What do scientists do during the Brain Ablation model?

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They damage parts of the brain on purpose to see which functions are removed.

47
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What is a single dissociation?

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One function is lost, another remains

48
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What is a double dissociation?

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Requires TWO individuals with different damage and opposite deficits

49
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What does double dissociation show us in the monkey example?

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The What and Where streams must have different mechanisms AND operate independently of one another

50
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What are mirror neurons?

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Neurons that respond while a subject watches an action being performed in the same way as if the subject was performing the action; “Monkey See, Monkey Do”

51
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What did Iacoboni find about mirror neurons?

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Found a higher rate of mirroring if the subject’s intention to perform the action was greater

52
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Who founded the idea of the likelihood principle?

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Helmholtz

53
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What is viewpoint invariance?

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Being able to recognize a face from a bunch of different perspectives

54
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Inverse projection problem

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

55
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Why is AI struggling with perception?

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Perception is so complex; many viewpoints add up, different perspectives, familiar images, etc.

56
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Size consistency

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Even though something is far away, we perceive it as normal because we know that the object is just far away

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