Perception

Question 1

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 1

-Disorder or impairment of recognizing faces

-Severe cases cannot tell the difference between a face and a non-face
(mistaking wife for a lamp)

-7% of population have associative form(all faces look similar. cannot recognize who they are, who family members are).

Question 2

What is reality?

Answer 2

-The way our brain perceives the world

Reality is not what it seems. We construct reality,

Question 3

List the 6 Gestalt Principles of Organization

Answer 3

1. Simplicity
2. Closure
3. Continuity
4. Similarity
5. Proximity
6. Common fate

Question 4

What allows you to recognize the the circular kiwi slices and a triangle?

Answer 4

Closure.

Question 5

What is bottom-up and top-down processing?

Answer 5

BU- Taking sensory information and then assembling and integrating it
(What am I seeing?)

TD - Using models, ideas, and expectations to interpret sensory information
(Is that something I’ve seen before?)

Question 6

What are the differences between rods and cones?

Answer 6

Rods-

• Used for night vision
• Sensitive to light

Cones-

• Used for day vision
• Sensitive to color and detail