COGSCI 200 Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
True or False? The brain's visual system is like a camera. False
What awe see through our eyes is a direct window onto
1 multiple choice option
an objective reality.
Which of the following statements about the problem of D) Both A and C
inverse optics is/are true? 3 multiple choice options
Consider the picture below. Based on the Ramachandran A white triangle is sitting on top of another triangle and three circles
and Antis article, which hypothesis would be preferred by
the visual system?
2 multiple choice options
When the below images are shown in succession, a Things tend to move in a straight line
person will see either up-to-down motion or right-to-left
motion. Which hidden assumption of the visual system
does this illustrate?
2 multiple choice options
Which of the following claims is NOT made in the reading Because people do not typically find Bayesian reasoning intuitive in conscious
by Brain Scholl? decision-making, we should doubt that the perceptual system engages in
unconscious Bayesian inference.
2 multiple choice options
True or False? According to the reading by Brain Scholl, False
because Bayesian inference is a learning method,
1 multiple choice option
Bayesian theories of perception and cognition are NOT
compatible with nativist theories that assume innate
structures and knowledge.
A person that has damage to both the lateral geniculate total blindness
nucleus AND the primary visual cortex (V1). Which of the
3 multiple choice options
following would be most likely to result from this
damage?
Which term from the Bayes' Rule equation corresponds P (scene)
to the notion of the perceptual system's built-in
3 multiple choice options
assumptions about the properties of the physical world?
Which of the following claims about prosopagnosia is It is selective deficit in processing and recognizing faces that occurs despite
true? otherwise intact visual perception
2 multiple choice options
CORRECT Answers
True or False? The brain's visual system is like a camera. False
What awe see through our eyes is a direct window onto
1 multiple choice option
an objective reality.
Which of the following statements about the problem of D) Both A and C
inverse optics is/are true? 3 multiple choice options
Consider the picture below. Based on the Ramachandran A white triangle is sitting on top of another triangle and three circles
and Antis article, which hypothesis would be preferred by
the visual system?
2 multiple choice options
When the below images are shown in succession, a Things tend to move in a straight line
person will see either up-to-down motion or right-to-left
motion. Which hidden assumption of the visual system
does this illustrate?
2 multiple choice options
Which of the following claims is NOT made in the reading Because people do not typically find Bayesian reasoning intuitive in conscious
by Brain Scholl? decision-making, we should doubt that the perceptual system engages in
unconscious Bayesian inference.
2 multiple choice options
True or False? According to the reading by Brain Scholl, False
because Bayesian inference is a learning method,
1 multiple choice option
Bayesian theories of perception and cognition are NOT
compatible with nativist theories that assume innate
structures and knowledge.
A person that has damage to both the lateral geniculate total blindness
nucleus AND the primary visual cortex (V1). Which of the
3 multiple choice options
following would be most likely to result from this
damage?
Which term from the Bayes' Rule equation corresponds P (scene)
to the notion of the perceptual system's built-in
3 multiple choice options
assumptions about the properties of the physical world?
Which of the following claims about prosopagnosia is It is selective deficit in processing and recognizing faces that occurs despite
true? otherwise intact visual perception
2 multiple choice options
