Test Bank for Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition by Goldstein CHAPTER 3 PERCEPTION 1. According to your textbook, perception goes beyond the simple receipt of sensory info rmation. It is involved in many different cognitive skills. Which of the following is NOT one of those skills as noted by the chapter? a. Solving problems *b. Experiencing neuromodulation c. Communicating with other people d. Answering questions 2. Perception is NOT essential for a. creating memories. b. acquiring knowledge. c. solving problems. *d. improving empathy. 3. The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina i s called the a. radiated wavelength paradox. *b. inverse projection problem. c. serial location task. d. fusiform face role. 4. Members of a security team are stationed on rooftops surrounding a large city plaza b efore a scheduled rally. Suddenly, three team members in different locations radio in to t he command center, each stating that they have spotted a suspicious box on the ground with a pipe coming from the top. What enables the security team members to report seei ng the same object despite being stationed on different rooftops? a. Semantic regularity *b. Viewpoint invariance c. Bottom-up processing d. Principle of similarity 5. Viewpoint ________ is the ability to recognize the same object even if it is seen from different perspectives. a. consistency b. resistance c. constancy *d. invariance 6. The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina, changing the image into electrical signals, and neural processing is an example of _____ processing. *a. bottom-up b. top-down c. Gestalt d. serial 7. If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented a lone, this would be an example of _____ processing. *a. top-down b. bottom-up c. serial d. sequential 8. Maria took a drink from a container marked "milk." Surprised, she quickly spit out the liquid because it turned out that the container was filled with orange juice instead. Maria likes orange juice, so why did she have such a negative reaction to it? Her response was most affected by a. reception of the stimulus. b. bottom-up processing. *c. top-down processing. d. focused attention. 9. Perceiving machines are used by the U.S. Postal Service to "read" the addresses on l etters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines ca nnot 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 work ers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of a. bottom-up processing. *b. top-down processing. c. their in-depth understanding of principles of perception. d. repeated practice at the task. 10. Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing? *a. Recognizing a crying friend’s sounds as words in a sentence b. Seeing a flash of lightning in a thunderstorm c. Walking all around a car and always knowing it’s a car d. Perceiving all of the birds in a flock as belonging together 11. Speech segmentation is defined as a. creating a sentence from a series of spoken words. b. ignoring the spaces between the spoken words of a sentence. *c. organizing the sounds of speech into individual words. d. recognizing a few words out of many when hearing a largely unfamiliar languag e. 12. When Carlos moved to the United States, he did not understand any English. Phrase s like "Anna Mary Can Pi and I Scream Class Hick" didn't make any sense to him. Now th at Carlos has been learning English, he recognizes this phrase as "An American Pie and I ce Cream Classic." This example illustrates that Carlos was not capable of ____ in Englis h. *a. speech segmentation b. the likelihood principle c. bottom-up processing d. algorithms 13. Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the f ollowing examples? a. When someone can easily select a target that has a feature distinct from distr acters b. When someone cannot read an illegible word in a written sentence c. When someone easily identifies an object even though that object is unexpect ed in that context (e.g., identifying a telephone inside a refrigerator) *d. When someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast d espite static interfering with reception 14. Which of the following is true about perception? a. It occurs separately from action. b. It is mostly automatic. *c. It involves rapid processes. d. It is the result of many cognitions such as creating memories, acquiring knowl edge, and solving problems. 15. The theory of unconscious inference includes the a. oblique effect. *b. likelihood principle. c. principle of componential recovery. d. principle of speech segmentation. 16. The likelihood principle states that *a. we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stim uli we have received. b. we perceive size to remain the same size even when objects move to different distances. c. it is easier to perceive vertical and horizontal orientations. d. feature detectors are likely to create a clear perception of an object. 17. The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger obje cts is the principle of perceptual a. conjunction. *b. organization. c. discriminability. d. fusion. 18. You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand b ecause of the law of *a. good continuation. b. simplicity. c. familiarity. d. good figure. 19. 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 a. simplicity. *b. similarity. c. pragnanz. d. familiarity. 20. The notion that every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting struct ure is as simple as possible is called the law of a. common fate. b. similarity. *c. pragnanz. d. continuity. 21. Entering a church service and seeing someone selling hot dogs and cotton candy fro m a cart near the altar would be perceived as a violation of a. mirror neurons. b. natural selection. *c. scene schema. d. pragnanz. 22. In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles rather than nine separate segments? *a. Simplicity b. Contiguity c. Figure-ground d. Common fate 23. Which of the following is NOT an example of a physical regularity in your text? a. The oblique effect b. The light-from-above assumption *c. Angled orientation d. Having one object that is partially covered by another "come out the other sid e" 24. People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientatio ns according to the a. principle of size constancy. *b. oblique effect. c. law of pragnanz. d. law of good continuation. 25. When does bottom-up processing start? *a. When environmental energy stimulates the receptors b. When an electrical signal is passed to the brain c. When motor neurons at the extremities are activated d. When the brain encodes information received by the receptors 26. The demonstration in your text that asks you to visualize scenes such as an office, a department store clothing section, a lion, and a microscope often results in more detail s in the scene of the office or department store than the scene with the lion or microscop e. The latter two tend to have fewer details because most individuals from modern societ y have less knowledge of _____ in those scenes. a. physical regularities *b. semantic regularities c. pragnanz d. double dissociation 27. The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate a. that neurons specialized to respond to faces are present in our brains when w e are born. b. that training a monkey to recognize the difference between common objects c an influence how the monkey's neurons fire to these objects. *c. an effect of experience-dependent plasticity. d. that our nervous systems remain fairly stable in different environments. 28. Amhad is doing an experiment in which he has to choose between the object he has been shown previously (the target object) and another object. Choosing the target object will result in a reward. What sort of task is Amhad doing? a. Landmark discrimination problem b. Dissociation task c. Greeble recognition task *d. Object discrimination problem 29. The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to yo ur _____ lobe. a. frontal b. temporal *c. parietal d. occipital 30. The term semantics, when applied to perception, means the *a. meaning of a scene, often related to what is happening within the scene. b. regularly occurring physical properties of an environment. c. inferences made based on the likelihood of a particular stimulus. d. statistical probabilities of one particular sound following another in language. 31. What is the process of unconscious inference? a. When our subconscious mind interferes with our conscience b. When our unconscious perceptions align with our conscious perceptions *c. When our perceptions are the result of inferences that we make about the e nvironment d. When our subconscious interferes with what we perceive from our retinas 32. The perception pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway. a. where; what *b. what; where c. size; distance d. distance; size 33. Which of the following is NOT considered a starting point for perception? a. feeling b. hearing c. seeing *d. thinking 34. Which of the following adjectives has the LEAST connection to perception? a. interactive *b. conscious c. supportive d. complex 35. Which term best reflects what we do with an image projected onto our retina? a. We infer it. b. We confirm it. *c. We interpret it. d. We reverse it. 36. What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing? a. the direction of scanning b. the pattern of organization *c. the source of information d. the pathway of action 37. The existence of transitional probabilities adds a(n) ________ quality to learning and using language. a. cultural *b. anticipatory c. reductive d. intellectual 38. The saying, “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all” best reflects which of the follow ing? a. principle of similarity b. law of pragnanz c. semantic regularities *d. likelihood principle 39. If a Gestalt psychologist was baking a cake for an event, what would they be most fo cused on? a. the oven *b. the cake c. the flour d. the flavor 40. Which of the following would have the most semantic regularities? a. a forest b. a skyscraper *c. a shopping mall d. a toll booth 41. A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian inf luence. a. principles b. eyesight c. sensation *d. beliefs 42. Which of the following word strings all refer to the same pathway? a. what, action, dorsal b. where, ventral, perception *c. dorsal, where, action d. perception, dorsal, what 43. Explain how perception is invisible to us but it is not automatic. Give at least two ex amples to support your thinking. 44. What two types of information are used by the human perceptual system? Give an e xample of an act of perception and identify each of the two types in the example. 45. Compare and contrast the four conceptions of object perception (unconscious infere nce, Gestalt laws, environmental regularities, and Bayesian inference). How do these ide as differ? In what ways are they similar? 46. Describe the function of mirror neurons. Why do you think intention plays a role in th e mirroring process? Give an example to support your thinking. 47. Explain how the object discrimination problem and the landmark discrimination probl em help show which pathways in the brain are responsible for different cognitive abilities. How does damage to different lobes of the brain make these tasks more difficult, and wh at pathways are involved? 48. Which of the following is an example of unconscious inference? *a. Perceiving that a partially covered automobile continues beneath the cover b. Perceiving the transitional probability of a language c. Perceiving the ringing of an alarm clock while sleeping d. Perceiving the length of an unfamiliar object by using a familiar object 49. How does the phenomenon of apparent movement work? *a. The perceptual system creates the perception of movement from stationary i mages. b. The perceptual system detects stationary images more slowly than motion is perceived. c. The retina sends overlapping electrical signals to the brain when motion is per ceived. d. The perceptual system slows when flashing objects are introduced. 50. Which of the following is a basic principle of Gestalt psychology? a. Many parts make up a whole. b. Truth is relative. c. Apparent motion is due to sensation. *d. The whole is different from the sum of its parts. 51. The fact that trees are more likely to be vertical or horizontal than slanted is an exa mple of ____. a. semantic regularity *b. physical regularity c. perceptual regularity d. orientation regularity 52. Semantic regularity refers to the _____. a. regularity between locations b. idea that regularities in the environment provide information we can use to res olve ambiguities *c. meaning between properties of an object d. consistency between situations 53. What is a scene schema? *a. Knowledge of what a scene typically contains b. Knowledge of the meaning of a scene c. Knowledge of the events leading to a scene d. Knowledge of why a scene should be visualized 54. Which of the following is true about Bayesian inference? a. The probability of an outcome is determined by chance. b. The probability of an outcome is determined solely by the likelihood of the out come. *c. The probability of an outcome is determined by the prior probability and the li kelihood of the outcome. d. The probability of an outcome is determined solely by our initial belief about th e probability of an outcome. 55. The Gestalt psychologists believe that _____. a. we use data about the environment to determine what is out there *b. perception is affected by experience, but built-in principles can override expe rience c. top-down processing is central to perception d. experience has no effect on perception, only sensation
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