Cognitive Psychology - Chapter 2 Review
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11 Terms
Proximal stimulus
The visual information registered by the sensory receptors of the retina.
Pattern recognition
The study of how sensory processes transform and organize raw information provided by sensory receptors.
Recognition-by-components
A process that involves the analysis of combinations of geons to recognize complex objects.
Illusory contour
A perceptual experience where edges seem to be physically present, although not shown.
Word superiority effect
The phenomenon where people identify a letter better when it appears in a meaningful word than in isolation.
Top-down processing
Word recognition that is influenced by contextual information.
Change blindness
A phenomenon where people fail to notice changes in a visual scene.
Holistic processing
Recognizing features of human faces better in the context of a whole face than in isolation.
Prosopagnosia
A condition where a person has trouble recognizing faces.
McGurk effect
Demonstrates that visual information can influence our speech perception.
Special mechanism approach
The proposal that speech perception requires a phonetic module in addition to general cognitive processes.
