A current debate in visual perception is whether or not perception occurs as a result of a number of specialized subsystems or if it is the result of a single general-purpose recognition system
Present evidence that supports both sides of this debate. Which side of the debate do you favor? Explain your decision
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Answer: Damage to the ventral temporal cortex is associated with difficulties in recognizing all types of objects. This suggests that recognition is a single process distributed across the brain. However, research also indicates that the fusiform gyrus is primarily responsive to faces in upright orientations and that damage to this part of the brain is associated with the inability to recognize faces. In contrast, damage to portions of the ventral temporal cortex is associated with the inability to recognize objects. The double dissociation between face and object recognition suggests that perception is specialized to particular areas of the brain indicative of the modular perspective.
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Compare and contrast normative influence and informational social influence. Which of these types of social influence played a bigger role in Sheriff's study (in which participants estimated how far a dot of light appeared to move)? Which played a bigger role in Asch's study (in which participants made judgments involving the lengths of lines)? Explain your answers
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You are hiking through a national forest when something moves under the leaves ahead and to your left. Deciding whether it is a snake, frog, or something else is known as __________
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Discuss separately the effects of damage to the area #3 in this illustration. Following that explanation, discuss the effects of damage to area #1 in this diagram.
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What were the results of the experiments conducted on participants who were variously administered mild pain, imagined pain, and hypnotized pain?
A. Participants reported feeling pain for imagined pain. B. Participants reported not feeling pain for hypnotically induced pain. C. Participants reported actually feeling pain only for real pain. D. Participants reported actually feeling pain for both real and hypnotically induced pain.