Week 4

Question 1

determined that something like half the brain is dedicated to visual recognition and that how and what we see is tied up with our physiological structure.

Answer 1

Modern Nuerophysiology

Question 2

It focuses the image on the retina just as the camera focuses an image on film.

Answer 2

Eye

Question 3

It organizes the material which has been focused on it by using its photoreceptors (light sensitive cells)

Answer 3

Retina

Question 4

processing dim light

Answer 4

Rods

Question 5

processing color and bright light

Answer 5

Cones

Question 6

transform what we have ‘captured’ visually into recognizable objects, and it is not until this work is completed that the image goes to the brain via the optic nerve to be processed further there

Answer 6

Photoreceptors

Question 7

The ___________ is very physical- eyes are focusing on objects

Answer 7

Process of Visual Perception

Question 8

processing matter

Answer 8

Rods and Cones

Question 9

transporting the images they have recorded

Answer 9

Optical Nerve

Question 10

He wrote that seeing is an activity that is ultimately derived from touching.

Answer 10

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

He used the analogy of feeling one’s way through the world, but he did not assume that seeing depended only on a sensory experience.

Answer 11

René Descartes

Question 12

He insisted that our senses are inadequate for perception we need to make sense of what we see using rational thought

Answer 12

René Descartes

Question 13

What are the Visual Perceptual Processing Categories

Answer 13

Visual Discrimination
Visual Figure Ground
Visual Closure
Visual Memory
Visual Sequential Memory
Visual Form Constancy
Visual Spatial Relationships

Question 14

the ability to be aware of the distinctive features of forms including shape. orientation, size, and color.

Answer 14

Visual Discrimination

Question 15

is the ability to distinguish an object from irrelevant background information

Answer 15

Visual Figure Ground

Question 16

is the ability to recognize a complete feature from fragmented information.

Answer 16

Visual Closure

Question 17

is the ability to retain information over an adequate period of time.

Answer 17

Visual Memory

Question 18

is the ability to perceive and remember a sequence of objects, letters, words, and other symbols in the same order as originally seen

Answer 18

Visual Sequential Memory

Question 19

is the ability to recognize objects as they change size, shape, or orientation

Answer 19

Visual Form Constancy

Question 20

refer to the ability to understand directional concepts that organize external visual space.

Answer 20

Visual Spatial Relationship

Question 21

These are rules that describe how the human eye perceives visual elements

Answer 21

Gestalt principles or laws