Cog Exam 1 Answers and 100% correct answers

In class and the text was a discussion of an unfortunate perceptual problem in which drivers often do not see an object they are looking at -- what is this called? - correct answer Looked but fail to see Perception is the same thing as sensation. T/F - correct answer False _______ are the basic primitive shapes in the recognition by components model of object recognition. - correct answer Geons Measures where the brain is using blood by imaging dioxygenated hemoglobin - correct answer Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Records a continuous record of electrical activity in the brain using scalp electrodes. - correct answer Electroencephalography (EEG) Measures minute magnetic fluctuations in the brain - correct answer Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Uses radioactive tracers to determine where the brain is using blood, glucose or neurotransmitters - correct answer Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Event-related potentials (ERP) - correct answer Measures electrical activity in the brain using scalp electrodes, recordings are time-locked to a stimulus and averaged over a number of trials In an experiment by Neisser (which we relicated in class), it was demonstrated that it takes less time to spot a leter (z) in a list of other dissimilar letters (O/U/B/Q) than it does to spot the letter in a list of similar letters (X/V,N/K) - in our experiment, you were less accurate in the similar condition that the dissimilar condition.... This experiment is used as evidence for which theory of pattern recognition? - correct answer Feature Theory _______ is defined as the process by which we direct our cognitive resources toward some environmental event in order to gather information about that event - correct answer Attention