Perception

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1. What did the kitten experiment show?

  • kittens could not survive in the opposite environment
  • there is a 'critical period' for tuning feature detector cells
  • kittens were blind after the experiment
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2. What is an example of the phi-phenomenon

  • loading signs
  • flickbooks
  • ambiguous images
  • clouds moving in front of the moon

3. What are perceptually ambiguous figures?

  • figures that can be interpreted without any context
  • figures with the same 'raw material' but can be interpreted in different ways
  • figures with different 'raw material' and are not open to interpretation

4. not getting the lead singer and backing singers mixed up is an example of which Gestalt principle in sound?

  • closure
  • good continuation
  • figure/ground distinction
  • proximity

5. What is the Muller-Lyer illusion?

  • where size consistency causes same sized images to look larger/smaller
  • when our perceptual system makes a same sized retinal image appear larger/smaller

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