10 Questions
What did researchers find about kittens reared in a completely vertical world?
They fail to develop the ability to detect horizontal lines or objects.
What happens to kittens restricted to only horizontal lines?
They cannot detect vertical lines.
What is the well-known phenomenon where individuals can tune into a conversation when their name is mentioned in a noisy environment?
Cocktail party phenomenon
What term describes the condition where individuals cannot say whose face it is, even if it is someone they know?
Prosopagnosia
What does habituation refer to in the context of sensory experience?
Ignoring sensations over time
Which part of the brain can deficits in feature detectors lead to prosopagnosia?
Temporal and occipital lobes
What does prosopagnosia mean?
'Failure to know' faces
In what way does sensory adaptation occur at the level of sensory receptors?
'Tuning out' specific stimuli
What is necessary for feature detector cells to develop normally, according to Blakemore & Cooper (1970)?
A certain amount of interaction with the environment
'Selective attention' occurs when:
'Tuning into' specific stimuli while ignoring others
Test your knowledge on pattern matching with this quiz. Identify the pattern in the given text.
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