Understanding the Hierarchical Nature of Perception in Print, Quizzes of Psychology

Download Understanding the Hierarchical Nature of Perception in Print and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 perception of print is ________ in nature DEFINITION 1 hierarchical TERM 2 hierarchical in nature DEFINITION 2 defined, leveled structure to our understandingexample: A B C D TERM 3 how does the term hierarchical pertain to perception of print? DEFINITION 3 individual lines and shapes > letters > words > sentences > structured paragraphs. TERM 4 DEFINITION 4 review this chart TERM 5 Bottom- up processing DEFINITION 5 Bottom-up processing is also known as "small chunk" processing and suggests that we attend to or perceive elements by starting with the smaller, more fine details of that element and then building upward until we have a solid representation of it in our minds.(perception directs cognition) TERM 6 Individual language units: What are the 3 categories? DEFINITION 6 features letters words TERM 7 Features (visual search task) DEFINITION 7 The more similar a target letter's features are to the surrounding noise, the longer the search time will be. TERM 8 The ____ similar a targets letter's features are to the surrounding noise, the ______ the search time. DEFINITION 8 more, longer TERM 9 Letters DEFINITION 9 there is evidence of automatic processing. familiarity is KEY humans preattentively process similar letters (b vs d) rather well, but we stumble over meaningless symbols of equal complexity. TERM 10 when dealing with letters there is evidence that _________ processing is involved. DEFINITION 10 automatic TERM 21 acronym DEFINITION 21 an abbreviation formed with the first initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word TERM 22 truncated DEFINITION 22 just chop off the end of the word, the basic idea is that you stop at the point where you have enough letters that most people can understand what that word would be. Ex)"abbrev" TERM 23 contraction DEFINITION 23 letters within the word are deletedselectively take out individual letters in a word ex) taking out all of the vowels in a word"abrvtns" TERM 24 Is it ( correct or incorrect) that some phonemes can be represented by multiple letters. DEFINITION 24 correct TERM 25 WHY DO PEOPLE FIND ALL CAPS ANNOYING WHEN READING CERTAIN CONTEXTS? DEFINITION 25 unitiiztion varies in important based context TERM 26 which is easily understood? truncated or contracted words? DEFINITION 26 truncated TERM 27 it is important that if you use the contraction method that you try your best to stay_____ DEFINITION 27 consistent TERM 28 the superiority of lower case letters appears to hold only for _______ _______ DEFINITION 28 printed sentences TERM 29 For the recognition of isolated words, the words appear to be better processed in _____ letters DEFINITION 29 capital TERM 30 chunking of data DEFINITION 30 this can cross over to the way we memorize strings of numbers / symbolsexample : 4070923420 > (407) 092-3420 TERM 31 phonetics DEFINITION 31 internal speech TERM 32 economic DEFINITION 32 most sufficient TERM 33 sequirity DEFINITION 33 we use redundancy to be more secure TERM 34 all language is a ___ DEFINITION 34 code TERM 35 Shannon faro principle DEFINITION 35 the most economic / sufficient code is generated when the length of the physical message is proportional to the information content of the message.