PERCEPTION-CH2-INTRO-TO-COGSCI

What are the gestalt principles of organisation?

• Principles on how elements are organised together to create objects

• Principles on how we hear words

• Principles on how elements of speech is organised

What is visual agnosia?

• Inability to recognise faces

• Impairment in recognition of objects presented visually

• Impairment of the ability to recognise moving people

• Inability to distinguish between colour (i.e., colour blindness)

what is top-down processing?

• processing starting from the senses

• processing heavily influenced by a person’s knowledge and experiences, and expectations

Answer explanation

We perceive "THE" and "CAT" despite the H and A being the same exact shape

What is this gestalt principle?

• PRINCIPLE OF PROXIMITY

• PRINCIPLE OF SIMILARITY

• PRINCIPLE OF GOOD CONTINUATION

• PRINCIPLE OF CLOSURE & GOOD FORM

Answer explanation

Elements close together tend to be grouped together <33

What is the template-matching theory?

• we recognise objects by comparing what we see to a template in our brain

• we recognise objects by identifying & combining the features that make up an object

• recognising objects by googling

What is the retina?

• the coloured part of the eye

• a type of neuron

• the innermost layer of cells within the eye

• area of the brain that processes visual information

Answer explanation

The "what" visual pathway is specialised for?

• identifying sounds

• representing spatial information

• coordinating vision with action

• identifying objects

What is associative agnosia?

• Inability to recognise simple shapes (e.g., circle)

• Inability to recognise complex objects (e.g., fork)

• Inability to hear certain speech frequencies

• Inability to see colours

What are the CONES in the retina

• photoreceptors involved in color vision (high resolution)

• photoreceptors involved in black&white vision (low resolution)

The "what" pathway goes from ... (location)?

• Goes from the primary visual cortex to temporal cortex

• Goes from the primary auditory cortex to frontal regions

• Goes from the primary visual cortex to parietal regions

• Goes from the primary auditory cortex to temporal cortex