Understanding Human Perception

How many senses are humans now thought to have?

• Five

• Ten

• Around twenty or more

• Exactly twenty

What is the primary difference between bottom-up and top-down processing?

• Both rely on sensory data

• Bottom-up relies on past experiences, top-down does not

• Both rely on past experiences

• Bottom-up relies on sensory data, top-down uses past experiences

Why might the brain perceive two different colors when there is only one?

• Due to a lack of sensory data

• Due to bottom-up processing

• Because of top-down processing using past experiences

• Because the brain is malfunctioning

What is prosopagnosia?

• Inability to hear words

• Difficulty reading and writing

• Inability to recognize moving objects

• Difficulty recognizing faces

Which condition involves hearing words as meaningless noises?

• Akinetopsia

• Prosopagnosia

• Visual agnosia

• Auditory verbal agnosia