PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 3 NEWEST NEWEST

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PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 3 NEWEST NEWEST

200 QUESTIONS AND

CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED

ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

__-__ processing: Process whereby physical stimuli influence

how we perceive them - ANSWER- Bottom-up

__ __: Lack the ability to find labels to identify objects -

ANSWER- Object agnosia

__-__ processing: Transducers are trying to go up the visual

system to the higher level of interpretation - ANSWER- Bottom- up

__-__ processing: A process whereby our existing knowledge of

objects influences how we perceive them - ANSWER- Top- down processing

__: The ability to match a presented item with an item in

memory. - ANSWER- Recognition:

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__: The storage and/or reconstruction of information in memory

when that information is not in use. - ANSWER-

Representation:

__ is a way in which our brain can have a concept → A way of coding some particular memory

Making match of a stimulus and a memory to represent that concept internally - ANSWER- Representation

Top-down processing is:

A process whereby physical stimuli influence how we perceive them A process whereby our existing knowledge of objects influences how we perceive them A process in which the top of objects is more salient than the bottom of objects Processing that occurs first in the higher cortical areas and then is sent directly to the sensory organs - ANSWER- A process whereby our existing knowledge of objects influences how we perceive them

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__: the tendency for human viewers, when seeing large numbers

of individual objects, to organize them into groups - ANSWER- Grouping

Perceptual Organization

__: refers to the visual processes that determine which visual

features combine to form a single shape and which features combine to form other shapes - ANSWER- Segregation

Gestalt Psychology and Perceptual Organization

Example: Eye or dots?

Level of understanding of the image Tend to describe __ shapes in the image, have precedence over the constituent parts - ANSWER- global

Gestalt Psychology and Perceptual Organization

__ __: The whole is larger than the sum of its parts - ANSWER-

Gestalt Psychology

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The process by which multiple objects in the environment are grouped, allowing us to identify multiple objects in complex

scenes, is known as:

Advanced grouping Bottom-up processing Perceptual organization Environmental-perceptual matrix - ANSWER- Perceptual organization

__ Laws: A few rules that govern what we see as figure and

what we see as ground - ANSWER- Gestalt

Gestalt Laws

__, __ and __ affects figure-ground organization. - ANSWER- Symmetry Convexity concave

Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Grouping

Law of __ __: When there is good continuation the brain

believes it is one object - ANSWER- good continuation

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