Question 1

Jimmy looks at a moderately blurred picture of Princess Diana's face. Jimmy will most likely

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A)   not be able to identify the face.
B)   identify the face as male rather than female.
C)   be able to correctly identify the face.
D)   need a computer to scan the image to correctly identify it.

Question 2

A masking stimulus is primarily used to

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A)   stop persistence of vision.
B)   increase the duration of persistence of vision.
C)   increase the area of the "region-of-interest".
D)   hide the purpose of the experiment from participants.

Question 3

Humans use the _____________ to determine shape from shading.

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A)   environmental assumption
B)   light-from-above assumption
C)   proximity principle
D)   delayed-matching principle

Question 4

Wundt: _________ :: Wertheimer: _____________.

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A)   structuralism; Gestalt psychology
B)   Gestalt psychology; structuralism
C)   functionalism; structuralism
D)   psychophysics; metaphysics

Question 5

Computers are better than humans at perceiving objects because

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A)   computers can process information faster than humans.
B)   computers have higher storage capacity than humans.
C)   computers can more easily determine the reasons for changes in lightness.
D)   none of these; humans are better than computers at object perception.

Question 6

Research has shown that an infant can visually recognize his/her mother's face from

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A)   the contrast between her eye color and face.
B)   her smile.
C)   the contrast between her hairline and forehead.
D)   her overall head shape.

Question 7

Which of the following is true regarding inversion effects?

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A)   Faces and other objects are equally affected by inversion.
B)   Face processing is slowed more than that of other objects.
C)   Object identification is not affected by inversion.
D)   They demonstrate that faces are processed featurally.

Question 8

Copolla et al. (1998)  gave students at Duke University digital cameras and told them to go to different areas on campus and take a picture every two minutes. Based on known physical regularities in the environment, what would you expect the photos to reveal?

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A)   Horizontal and vertical orientations were the major physical regularities.
B)   Diagonal orientations were the major environmental regularities.
C)   Gestalt principles were incompatible with the major environmental regularities.
D)   Environmental irregularities were more salient than environmental regularities.

Question 9

Which of the following is a global image feature, according to Oliva and Torralba?

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A)   degree of naturalness
B)   degree of openness
C)   color
D)   All of these are global image features.

Question 10

The Olympic symbol is an example of the Gestalt principle of

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A)   proximity.
B)   Pragnanz.
C)   common fate.
D)   synchrony.

Question 11

Nascelaris et al. (2009)  developed the _____ decoder that is used to make predictions about characteristics of a scene such as contrast and shape.

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A)   form
B)   structure
C)   orientation
D)   semantic

Question 12

Jimmy looks at a picture of a side of a submarine that has dents and bumps on it. When he turns the picture upside-down, what he originally perceived as bumps, now look like dents, and vice versa. This is due to

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A)   figure-ground reversal.
B)   the oblique effect.
C)   accidental properties of light.
D)   the "light-from-above" heuristic.

Question 13

In a scene, the objects in the foreground are best described as _________, whereas the image making up the background is best described as the _______.

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A)   object; setting
B)   ground; figure
C)   near point; distance
D)   figure; ground

Question 14

The _______ effect is that humans perceive horizontals and verticals more easily than other orientations.

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A)   Turing
B)   oblique
C)   spreading
D)   visual persistence

Question 15

Describe Grill-Spector et al.'s (2004) Harrison Ford study and the results of that study.

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Question 16

Sally recently looked at some visual illusions. In one reversible-image illusion she saw a vase in the middle of a blue box. What is Sally most likely to remember about this illusion?

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A)   Details about the box.
B)   The two faces on the side of the face.
C)   The vase she saw in the illusion.
D)   The lower half of the image.

Question 17

The ___________ problem shows that numerous physical stimuli can create exactly the same image on the retina.

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A)   correspondence
B)   inverse projection
C)   occlusion
D)   ambiguity

Question 18

A voxel is

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A)   a small cube-shaped area of the brain about 2 mm on each side.
B)   an electrode used to measure brain activity.
C)   the basic unit of sensation.
D)   the retinal area on which an image is projected.

Question 19

Corey looks at a flock of seagulls flying in one direction, when suddenly five of the seagulls start flying in another direction. He now perceives two groups of birds, because of the Gestalt principle of

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A)   common fate.
B)   uniform connectedness.
C)   synchrony.
D)   Pragnanz.

Question 20

Describe what decoders were developed by Kamitani and Tong (2005) and Naselaris et al. (2009), how they were established, and what they can be used for.

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Exam 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes

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The _______ effect is that humans perceive horizontals and verticals more easily than other orientations.

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Copolla et al. (1998) gave students at Duke University digital cameras and told them to go to different areas on campus and take a picture every two minutes. Based on known physical regularities in the environment, what would you expect the photos to reveal?

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Which of the following is true regarding inversion effects?

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Humans use the _____________ to determine shape from shading.

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Nascelaris et al. (2009) developed the _____ decoder that is used to make predictions about characteristics of a scene such as contrast and shape.

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A voxel is

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Which of the following is a global image feature, according to Oliva and Torralba?

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The Olympic symbol is an example of the Gestalt principle of

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Sally recently looked at some visual illusions. In one reversible-image illusion she saw a vase in the middle of a blue box. What is Sally most likely to remember about this illusion?

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Wundt: _________ :: Wertheimer: _____________.

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