Two Sides of the Coin: Sensation and Perception

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Baldwin, Carrel & Lopez (1991) subliminally exposed graduate students to either a picture of a smiling face of a research assistant or a contemptuous picture of their primary professor and then asked the students to rate the quality of their own research ideas. This is an example of an experimental study that manipulated the ______________ variable(s).

independentdependentindependent and dependentNone of the above

Bottom-up processing is relies on , while top-down processing relies on ____.

beliefs/datadata/beliefsexpectations/cognitionsnew data/known facts

Graduate students who received subliminal presentations of the contemptuous face of their primary professor rated their research projects _____________ than those who were subliminally presented with the smiling faces of a research assistant.

less positivelyno more or less positivelymore cutting edgemore positively

Perception is the process where the cerbral cortex

is just barely able to detect information from the sense organs. easily detects information from the sense organs.organizes and interprets sensory inputs.None of the above

The finding that congenitally blind subjects reading Braille experienced activation in their visual cortex is an example of ____________.

cross-modal processingphosphenesSpecific nerve energiesAll of the above

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Two Sides of the Coin: Sensation and Perception

Bottom-up processing is relies on ____________, while top-down processing relies on ________________.

Graduate students who received subliminal presentations of the contemptuous face of their primary professor rated their research projects _____________ than those who were subliminally presented with the smiling faces of a research assistant.

Perception is the process where the cerbral cortex

The finding that congenitally blind subjects reading Braille experienced activation in their visual cortex is an example of ____________.

Bottom-up processing is relies on , while top-down processing relies on ____.