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
Exam Questions with 100% Correct
Answers | Latest Update
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
