Visual Perception

Question 1

The set of processes by which we recognise, organise, and make sense of the sensations we receive from environmental stimuli

Answer 1

perception

Question 2

In regards to the perceptual continuum of vision, what is an example of a distal object?

Answer 2

grandmas face

Question 3

What happens in the informational medium?

Answer 3

light is being reflected of grandmas face (visible electromagnetic waves)

Question 4

What is the proximal stimulation?

Answer 4

photon absorption in the rod and cone cells of the retina., the receptor surface in the back of the eye.

Question 5

What is an example of a perceptual object?

Answer 5

grandmas face

Question 6

______ occurs when sensory receptors change their sensitivity to the stimulus. Constant stimulus leads to lower sensitivity.

Answer 6

Sensory adaptation

Question 7

When parts are identified, put together, and then recognition occurs is knows as what theory of perception?

Answer 7

bottom-up theory

Question 8

People actively construct perceptions using information based on expectations, this is known as what theory of perception?

Answer 8

top-down theories

Question 9

What are four types of bottom-up processing theories?

Answer 9

direct perception, template theories, feature-matching theories and recognition-by-components theory

Question 10

The information in our sensory receptors is all we need to perceive anything. We do not need the aid of complex thought processes to explain perception. What theory is this?

Answer 10

Gibon’s theory of direct perception

Question 11

Multiple templates are held in memory. To recognise the incoming stimuli, you compare to templates in memory until a math is found. What theory is this?

Answer 11

Template theory

Question 12

Recognise objects on the basis of a small number of characteristics (features). What theory is this?

Answer 12

Feature-matching theory

Question 13

What are the four kinds of demons in the pandemonium model?

Answer 13

Image demons, feature demons, cognitive demons and decisions demons

Question 14

What theory breaks objects down into geons?

Answer 14

Recognition-by-components theory

Question 15

______ processing occurs quickly and involves making inferences, guessing from experience, and basing one perception on another.

Answer 15

Top-down

Question 16

What are the 5 gestalt principles?

Answer 16

proximity, similarity, continuity, closure and symnetry

Question 17

Individuals organise their experience in as simple, concise, symmetrical, and complete manner as possible is known as

Answer 17

Law of Pragnanz

Question 18

The ability to see the world in 3 dimensions and detect distance:

Answer 18

Depth perception

Question 19

Three examples of monocular depth cues:

Answer 19

texture gradients (grain of item), relative size (bigger is closer), interposition (closer are in front of other objects)

Question 20

Three more examples of monocular depth cues?

Answer 20

linear perspective, Aerial perspective and motion parallax

Question 21

Parallel lines converging in the distance is known as?

Answer 21

linear perspective

Question 22

Images seem blurry the farther away they are is known as?

Answer 22

aerial perspective

Question 23

Objects get smaller at decreasing speed in decreasing speed in distance is known as?

Answer 23

motion parallax

Question 24

What are two binocular depth cues?

Answer 24

binocular convergence and binocular disparity

Question 25

eyes turn inward as objects moves towards you, brain uses this information to judge distance:

Answer 25

binocular convergence

Question 26

Each eye views a slightly different angle of an object; brain uses this to create a 3D image:

Answer 26

binocular disparity

Question 27

Inability to recognise and identify objects or people, despite having knowledge of the characteristics of the object or people:

Answer 27

agnosia

Question 28

Normal visual field, yet act blind. Perceives only one stimulus a time - single word or object:

Answer 28

simultagnostic

Question 29

Inability to recognise faces, including own face:

Answer 29

prosopagnosia

Question 30

Cannot use vision to guide movement. Unable to reach for items:

Answer 30

Optic ataxia

Question 31

In some areas of the cortex, some _____ cells fire maximally only in response to very specific shapes (hand or face)

Answer 31

complex

Question 32

Intelligent perception is also known as?

Answer 32

constructive perception

Question 33

Constructive perception is also known as?

Answer 33

Intelligent perception

Question 34

Constructive perception is a ______ theory of perception.

Answer 34

Top down

Question 35

_________ perception is a key view of perception because it states that higher-order thinking plays an important role in perception.

Answer 35

Constructive

Question 36

_______ is the perception that an object maintains the same shape despite changes in the shape of proximal stimulus.

Answer 36

Shape constancy

Question 37

_______ attention deficits have been linked to the posterior parietal cortex and the thalamus.

Answer 37

Visual

Question 38

What are the components of the working-memory model?

Answer 38

central executive, the phonological loop, the viusospatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer

Question 39

What part of the working memory model briefly holds some visual images?

Answer 39

visuospatial sketchpad

Question 40

What part of the working memory mode briefly holds inner speech for verbal comprehension and for acoustic rehearsal?

Answer 40

phonological loop

Question 41

This part of the working memory model allows for an interface that can integrate different types of information from various systems:

Answer 41

episodic buffer

Question 42

What part of the working memory model coordinates attentional activities and governs responses?

Answer 42

central executive

Question 43

A mental representation of a stimulus that is perceived:

Answer 43

percept

Question 44

The internal sensation of a source of stimulation as it is registered by the sensory receptors. the internal sensation does not have to match exactly the external source of stimulation as it exits in the world:

Answer 44

proximal stimulus