PSY 113 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Subjective Constancy, Visual Cortex
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A theoretical approach that emphasizes the role of organized holes in perception is Gestalt psychology: our recognition of objects depends only on a well-chosen subset of the features that are in view. True: viewers usually view a "y" junction as a surface dropping from view behind another. False: subjective contours do not exist physically, but are perceived under certain conditions. True: feature nets can be both top down "knowledge driven" and bottom up "data driven" in how they are constructed. True: magno ganglion cells in the retina are sensitive to hue or color differences. False: visual analysis goes on in a highly parallel set of processes. Parietal cortex: when we see a door at various slants or points of view and it still appears to be a rectangle to us, this is an example of: Perceptual constancy: the problem of recombining perceptual elements of a stimulus that are processed in different neural areas of the brain is called.
