Perceiving Objects And Scenes

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Introduction to Perception
The Beginning of the Perceptual Process
Neural Processing
Cortical Organization
Perceiving Objects and Scenes
Visual Attention
Taking Action
Perceiving Motion
Perceiving Color
Perceiving Depth and Size
Hearing I: Basic Processes and Pitch Perception
Hearing II: Location and Organization
Speech Perception
The Cutaneous Senses
The Chemical Senses

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Question 1

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Current computer programs are able to identify some objects _____ .

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and require only brief "training" on a few images

and are considered remarkably successful

but they perform only slightly above chance

but they often make errors that a human would never make

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Question 2

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The _____ problem shows that numerous physical stimuli can create exactly the same image on the retina.

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correspondence

inverse projection

occlusion

ambiguity

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Question 3

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Jimmy looks at a moderately blurred picture of Princess Diana's face. Jimmy will most likely _____ .

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not be able to identify the face

identify the face as male rather than female

be able to correctly identify the face

need a computer to scan the image to correctly identify it

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Question 4

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"Viewpoint invariance" means that _____ .

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children can only represent one perceptual viewpoint at a time

computers can invert images to easily perform object recognition

humans can easily recognize objects when seen from different viewpoints

monkeys can only recognize other monkey faces from a frontal view

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Question 5

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Wundt is to _ as Wertheimer is to _ .

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structuralism; Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology; structuralism

functionalism; structuralism

psychophysics; metaphysics

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Question 6

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Structuralists would be most likely to endorse which of the following statements

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Sensations and perceptions are the same "unit" of thought.

The whole of something is greater than its parts.?

The starting point for perceptions is the sensations that make them up.?

Past experience plays little or no role in perception formation.?

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Question 7

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The demonstration of apparent movement provides support for the Gestalt approach because _____ .

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the phenomenon cannot be explained by sensations alone

the phenomenon relies exclusively on the perceiver's past experience?

the images used do not follow the principle of common region?

the phenomenon relied on figure/ground segregation?

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Question 8

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Gestalt psychologists used the example of illusory contours to support the claim that _____ .

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perceptions are formed by combining sensations

vision can be modeled on computer processing

the whole is different than the sum of its parts

experience determines perceptual interpretation

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Question 9

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The Olympic symbol is an example of the Gestalt principle of _____ .

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proximity

pragnanz?

common fate?

synchrony?

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Question 10

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The principle of _____ can account for grouping of stimuli that share orientation, shape, and/or size.

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segregation

shape?

identity?

similarity

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Question 11

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Corey looks at a flock of seagulls flying in one direction, when suddenly, five of the seagulls start flying in another direction. He now perceives two groups of birds, because of the Gestalt principle of _____ .

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common fate

uniform connectedness?

synchrony?

pragnanz.?

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Question 12

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Alyson looks at a picture of arrows and sees white arrows pointing to the right against a black background. She looks at the picture longer, and then sees black arrows pointing to the left against a white background. Her perception of this stimulus is an example of _____ .

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perceptual segregation

binocular rivalry?

view invariance?

orientation invariance?

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Question 13

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In a scene, the objects in the foreground are best described as _ , whereas the image making up the background is best described as the _ .

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object; setting

ground; figure

near point; distance

figure; ground

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Question 14

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Border ownership means that when figure-ground segregation occurs, the border between the figure and background _____ .

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seems to change color

is perceived to be associated with the background?

is perceived to be associated with the figure?

seems to disappear?

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Question 15

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Which of the following is a general determinant of figure-ground segregation

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The right side is more likely to be perceived as a figure than the left.

Small stimuli are more likely to be perceived as ground than figure.

Near the shared borders, figure is seen as unformed material.

A lower region is more likely to be perceived as figure than an upper region.

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Question 16

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Sally recently looked at some visual illusions. In one reversible-image illusion, she saw a vase in the middle of a blue box. What is Sally most likely to remember about this illusion

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details about the box

the two faces on the side of the face?

the vase she saw in the illusion?

the lower half of the image?

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Question 17

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In one reversible figure/ground study, Gibson and Peterson (1994) used an image in which one area looks like a woman when upright, but does not resemble anything when turned upside down. Their general finding was that _____ .

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meaningfulness of an image had a large effect on figure-ground segregation

meaningful images were just as likely to be seen as figure or ground?

inverting the entire image lead to slower response times?

meaningfulness only had an effect when they appeared on the left side?

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Question 18

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The Bev Doolittle print of "The Forest Has Eyes" exemplifies the way _____ affects perceptual organization.

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proximity

common region?

Meaningfulness

common fate

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Question 19

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Humans need approximately _____ to perceive the gist of a scene.

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250 milliseconds

1000 milliseconds?

2 seconds?

5 seconds?

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Question 20

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A masking stimulus is primarily used to _____ .

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stop persistence of vision

increase the duration of persistence of vision?

increase the area of the "region-of-interest"

hide the purpose of the experiment from participants

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Perceiving Objects And Scenes

Current computer programs are able to identify some objects _____ .

The _____ problem shows that numerous physical stimuli can create exactly the same image on the retina.

Jimmy looks at a moderately blurred picture of Princess Diana's face. Jimmy will most likely _____ .

"Viewpoint invariance" means that _____ .

Wundt is to _____ as Wertheimer is to _____ .

Structuralists would be most likely to endorse which of the following statements

The demonstration of apparent movement provides support for the Gestalt approach because _____ .

Gestalt psychologists used the example of illusory contours to support the claim that _____ .

The Olympic symbol is an example of the Gestalt principle of _____ .

The principle of _____ can account for grouping of stimuli that share orientation, shape, and/or size.

Corey looks at a flock of seagulls flying in one direction, when suddenly, five of the seagulls start flying in another direction. He now perceives two groups of birds, because of the Gestalt principle of _____ .

Alyson looks at a picture of arrows and sees white arrows pointing to the right against a black background. She looks at the picture longer, and then sees black arrows pointing to the left against a white background. Her perception of this stimulus is an example of _____ .

In a scene, the objects in the foreground are best described as _____ , whereas the image making up the background is best described as the _____ .

Border ownership means that when figure-ground segregation occurs, the border between the figure and background _____ .

Which of the following is a general determinant of figure-ground segregation

Sally recently looked at some visual illusions. In one reversible-image illusion, she saw a vase in the middle of a blue box. What is Sally most likely to remember about this illusion

In one reversible figure/ground study, Gibson and Peterson (1994) used an image in which one area looks like a woman when upright, but does not resemble anything when turned upside down. Their general finding was that _____ .

The Bev Doolittle print of "The Forest Has Eyes" exemplifies the way _____ affects perceptual organization.

Humans need approximately _____ to perceive the gist of a scene.

A masking stimulus is primarily used to _____ .

Wundt is to _ as Wertheimer is to _ .

In a scene, the objects in the foreground are best described as _ , whereas the image making up the background is best described as the _ .