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which of the following statements cognition refers to mental activity and describes
best describes cognition? the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of
knowledge
perceptual processes ____________ use previous knowledge in order to interpret the
stimuli that are registered by our senses
true or false: gestalt approach is true
based on top-down processing
the kanizsa triangle that we an illusory contour
discussed in class in an example of
_________
suppose that a psychologist loans a picture in which specific region is the central
you an art book and says that the figure one moment, but this region becomes the
book include some interesting background the next moment
ambiguous figure-ground pictures.
you should expect to see _________
,true or false: the template-matching false
theory best explains visual object
recognition
during the 1950s, many psychologists it ignored internal cognitive processes and focused
were becoming discouraged with on only observable behavior
behaviorism and cognitive
psychology began to emerge. a
major reason they were disappointed
with behaviorism is that _______
according to gestalt principles, people tend to organize their perceptions when
illusory contours are perceived they encounter illusory contour stimuli and
because _____ perceive boundaries when no boundaries exist
the recognition-by-components analyzing the arrangement of simple 3-dimentional
theory argues that we recognize an shapes that form the object
object by _______
supposed that you walk past a top-down processing
friend's home. standing in front of
the house is someone who
somewhat resembles your friend, so
you shout, "Hi, John!". to your
embarrassment, it is not John but his
younger brother who is substantially
shorter and with darker hair. You
have taken in the whole scene and
made an error due to ______
true or false: cognitive processes are true
active rather than passive
, suppose that you are sitting in a a selective-attention task
classroom, trying to follow your
professor's lecture and therefore
ignoring a conversation out in the
hallway. this situation most closely
resembles:
(the picture where it says tHe mAn top-down processing
rAn but the H A A are weird shapes)
We can read the sentence above
because we process information and
recognize letters based on
research has shown that cells in a fusiform facial area
particular part of the human brain
play an important role in face
recognition. the part of the brain is
the ________
the video shown in class in which a inattentional blindness
gorilla appears in the midst of the
students tossing the ball was used to
illustrate _______
according to what you read in uses both top-down and bottom-up processing
Chapter 3 and our discussion in
class, attention ________
true or false: visual information is false
only processed in the visual cortex
true or false: bottom-up processing false
is similar to gestalt processing
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Terms in this set (150)
which of the following statements cognition refers to mental activity and describes
best describes cognition? the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of
knowledge
perceptual processes ____________ use previous knowledge in order to interpret the
stimuli that are registered by our senses
true or false: gestalt approach is true
based on top-down processing
the kanizsa triangle that we an illusory contour
discussed in class in an example of
_________
suppose that a psychologist loans a picture in which specific region is the central
you an art book and says that the figure one moment, but this region becomes the
book include some interesting background the next moment
ambiguous figure-ground pictures.
you should expect to see _________
,true or false: the template-matching false
theory best explains visual object
recognition
during the 1950s, many psychologists it ignored internal cognitive processes and focused
were becoming discouraged with on only observable behavior
behaviorism and cognitive
psychology began to emerge. a
major reason they were disappointed
with behaviorism is that _______
according to gestalt principles, people tend to organize their perceptions when
illusory contours are perceived they encounter illusory contour stimuli and
because _____ perceive boundaries when no boundaries exist
the recognition-by-components analyzing the arrangement of simple 3-dimentional
theory argues that we recognize an shapes that form the object
object by _______
supposed that you walk past a top-down processing
friend's home. standing in front of
the house is someone who
somewhat resembles your friend, so
you shout, "Hi, John!". to your
embarrassment, it is not John but his
younger brother who is substantially
shorter and with darker hair. You
have taken in the whole scene and
made an error due to ______
true or false: cognitive processes are true
active rather than passive
, suppose that you are sitting in a a selective-attention task
classroom, trying to follow your
professor's lecture and therefore
ignoring a conversation out in the
hallway. this situation most closely
resembles:
(the picture where it says tHe mAn top-down processing
rAn but the H A A are weird shapes)
We can read the sentence above
because we process information and
recognize letters based on
research has shown that cells in a fusiform facial area
particular part of the human brain
play an important role in face
recognition. the part of the brain is
the ________
the video shown in class in which a inattentional blindness
gorilla appears in the midst of the
students tossing the ball was used to
illustrate _______
according to what you read in uses both top-down and bottom-up processing
Chapter 3 and our discussion in
class, attention ________
true or false: visual information is false
only processed in the visual cortex
true or false: bottom-up processing false
is similar to gestalt processing
