PSE 4 RAAB november 20

identifying an object is part of which pathway(s)?

• ventral pathway

• what pathway

• dorsal pathway

• where/how pathway

Answer explanation

which hypothesis states that people perceive their environment in terms of their ability to act on it

which one is correctly matched up

• Parietal reach region: parietal lobe

• precuneus : frontal lobe

• premotor cortex: temporal

• olfactory cortex: occipital lobe

Answer explanation

the parietal reach reach is in the parietal lobe. the parietal lobe is also associated with the how/where pathway which is important when performing the action of reaching for something

what are affordances

• information that indicates what an object is used for

• information that indicates there is an object

• information provided by experts on how to use an object

• information that is available to us from birth about specific objects

Answer explanation

which statement(s) is/are false

• invariant information is information that stays constant while the observer is moving

• optic flow describes the effect of objects moving faster closer to the observer and slower when they are further while the observer is moving

• focus of expansion: the point to which the observer is moving towards doesn't move, simply gets bigger

• Grid cell theory describes the effect of american football players brains only being activated while on the gridiron

Answer explanation

the lee and aronson experiment showed that your senses can work in isolation

• true

• false

Answer explanation

select the true statement

• people are able to navigate without any visual stimuli from the environment

• decision point landmarks strongly activate the parahippocampal gyrus

• Janzen and Turennout conducted an important study in wayfinding

• no answers are correct

• all answers are correct

Answer explanation

the blind walking experiment showed that we can make it to our goal without visual stimuli. when we have visual stimuli we see our goal and when we move off course we self0correct

when are mirror neurons most strongly activated

• when observing a task being done by hand

• observing a task being done with a tool

• performing a task after having watched it

• none of these answer

Answer explanation

function of mirror neurons is

• to help understand other animal actions and react to them appropriately

• help imitate the observed action

• help link sensory perceptions to actions

• help us understand emotional expressions

• all of the above

Answer explanation