PSYC 304 Week 3 Quiz Answers (VERIFIED)

1. "Viewpoint invariance" means 2. Gestalt laws are more accurately described as heuristics because they 3. is the proposed reason why VI neurons can make figure-ground discriminations. 4. When Palmer (1975) showed observers a kitchen scene and then a target picture, which picture was identified correctly 80% of the time? 5. The relationship between environmental regularities, physiology, and perception is most likely established by 6. A cell in area VI of a monkey is shown to fire when a vertical bar is presented. When bars of random orientation are added around the vertical bar, the firing rate of the cell ; when bars of some of the surrounding bars are changed to a vertical orientation, the firing rate of the cell . 7. Perceiving the emotional aspects of a face are reflected by activation in the brain structure called 8. One aspect of the visual system that helps us achieve selective attention is 9. "Learning from past experience" as a factor involved in attention was demonstrated by Shinoda et al. (2001), who showed that drivers are more likely to detect stop signs when they were positioned at 10. The incidence of change blindness when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which part of the scene has changed. 11. People tend to fixate on high contrast and brightly colored objects in a visual scene. This is called and is a process. 12. The is activated in observers without brain damage when performing conjunction visual searches. 13. According to Treisman, focused attention binds the information from the and the . 14. The spreading enhancement e?ect of attention can help us perceive 15. One reason humans can function without being able to detect every detail of a visual scene is