2.1.1 - Introduction

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Undergraduate 2 - PSYC2071 - Perception and Cognition (2.1 - Introduction) Quiz on 2.1.1 - Introduction, created by Scott Hekking on 28/07/2015.
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Question 1

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What is transduction?
Answer
  • Converting forms of energies into neural code to be processed by different parts of the brain
  • Converting forms of energies into physical phenomena, i.e. neural energy into the movement of a limb
  • The process by which the brain sorts different neural signals as they criss-cross into the forebrain
  • The process by which the brain sorts different neural signals as they criss-cross into the midbrain

Question 2

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Perception is the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Which of the following is NOT the difference between objective and subjective evaluations?
Answer
  • Sensing the temperature of ice cream vs. perceiving flavour
  • Sensing the wind vs. perceiving the fan blowing on you
  • Sensing the texture of the chocolate bar vs. perceiving how it tastes
  • Sensing the vibration of your phone vs. perceiving your friends phone vibrating

Question 4

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Are these concentric circles?
Answer
  • Yes, but we perceive them as non-concentric
  • No, they are non-concentric
  • No, but we perceive them as concentric

Question 5

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What is an emergent property?
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  • A property gathered from minimal perceptual information
  • A property derived from a larger schema
  • A property based on the salience of other stimuli
  • A property gathered by the cerebral cortex

Question 6

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The Principal Challenge is the relationship between physical stimulus and its perceived properties being very simple.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Functional specialisation of brain areas relates to the visual brain consisting of many different visual areas, which are functionally specialised to process and perceive different attributed of the visual scene. Which of the following are NOT one of these different attributes of a visual scene?
Answer
  • Brightness
  • Colour
  • Size
  • Sequence
  • Organism

Question 8

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Fill in the blanks: Different processing channels parse the incoming signals into ________ streams to provide a compact, efficient input to the brain, every brain area receives and sends multiple visual _____ and outputs.
Answer
  • parallel, inputs
  • perpendicular, inputs
  • parallel, return
  • perpendicular, return

Question 9

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What makes CAPTCHAs so hard for computers to crack?
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  • They require a high level of visual processing that computers do not possess
  • They do not possess the ability to pull text from images
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