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PSYC 230 – Cognitive Psychology Exam 3 Review (50+ Questions) | Object Recognition, Gestalt Laws, Edge Completion | University of Illinois (UIUC)

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This document is a thorough and concept-driven review set of 50+ exam-format questions and answers for PSYC 230: Cognitive Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), aligned with Exam 3 for the 2025/2026 academic year. It focuses on essential theoretical foundations and perceptual mechanisms that underlie object recognition, perceptual grouping, and top-down vs. bottom-up processing. The material breaks down core visual processing topics such as object agnosia, perceptual organization, figure-ground segmentation, edge detection, and Gestalt principles. Classic examples like the Kanizsa triangle, Necker cube, and vase-face illusion are included to help students understand complex illusions and perceptual bias. The document also explains the Recognition-by-Components (RBC) theory, viewpoint invariance, and its limitations—highlighting the cognitive role of geons and perceptual expectations. It is designed as a structured and student-friendly guide that reinforces not only definitions and visual mechanisms but also cognitive interpretation, experimental examples, and real-world visual inference (e.g., camouflage, ambiguous images, and prior knowledge impact). This document is best suited for: Undergraduate psychology students at UIUC preparing for PSYC 230 exams Students in cognitive science, neuroscience, or visual studies seeking solid conceptual grounding in object and scene perception Learners wanting to master exam-relevant principles behind how the brain organizes and interprets visual input Keywords: object perception, object recognition, perceptual organization, gestalt laws, figure-ground, edge completion, top-down processing, bottom-up processing, viewpoint invariance, recognition by components, geons, Necker cube, Kanizsa triangle, ambiguous images, perceptual grouping, visual illusions, V1 detectors, object agnosia, PSYC 230, cognitive psychology, UIUC

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PSYC 230 Exam 3 REVIEW 2025/2026
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object perception - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Allows us to identify things out in the

world and make sense of it


object agnosia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cannot label objects to identify them




EX: red roses Someone with this can detect visual features (say it is red

circles), but cannot actually put everything together and say it is red roses




EX: two pictures of remotes one straight on, one turned to the side

*But can still recognize both pictures as a remote control

, If shown a complex/unknown object, hard to answer simple questions on

the object... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔What is it? How big? What does it do?




But once you know it is a flower, you have PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ABT

FLOWERS WE CAN BRING IN TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS


bottom up processing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Process whereby physical stimuli

influence how we perceive them




Light hits eyes, goes into ganglion cells and visual cortex, so on




REFER TO THE SIGNALS THAT COME FROM THE STIMULI IN THE

WORLD AND GO UP THE VISUAL SYSTEM TO HIGHER LEVELS OF

INTERPRETATION




PERCEPTION THAT ARISE DIRECTLY FROM PHYSICAL PROERTIES


top down processing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A process whereby our existing

knowledge of objects influences how we perceive them

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