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What is the primary focus of the McGurk Effect?
What is the primary focus of the McGurk Effect?
- The impact of background noise on communication
- The effect of reading on language comprehension
- The role of auditory signals in language processing
- The influence of visual cues on speech perception (correct)
Which statement best describes a consequence of the McGurk Effect?
Which statement best describes a consequence of the McGurk Effect?
- The effect is only observable in individuals exposed to multiple languages.
- Individuals can ignore visual cues while listening to speech.
- People may misinterpret spoken words when lip movements do not match sounds. (correct)
- Auditory information always overrides visual information in speech perception.
Which of the following scenarios illustrates the McGurk Effect?
Which of the following scenarios illustrates the McGurk Effect?
- Reading a text aloud to someone without any auditory feedback.
- A conversation held in a noisy environment without visual contact.
- A person listening to music while trying to read lips.
- A video showing a speaker saying 'ga' while mouthing 'ba'. (correct)
Which aspect of language does the McGurk Effect indicate is significantly affected by visual stimuli?
Which aspect of language does the McGurk Effect indicate is significantly affected by visual stimuli?
In what type of experiment would the McGurk Effect most likely be demonstrated?
In what type of experiment would the McGurk Effect most likely be demonstrated?
Flashcards
McGurk Effect
McGurk Effect
A phenomenon where auditory information is overridden by visual information, causing us to perceive a different sound than what we actually hear.
Multimodal Perception
Multimodal Perception
The McGurk effect demonstrates the powerful influence of visual input on our auditory perception, highlighting the interconnected nature of our senses.
Cross-Linguistic Phenomenon
Cross-Linguistic Phenomenon
The McGurk effect is observed regardless of the language spoken, indicating its universality across different cultures.
Neural Integration
Neural Integration
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
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Study Notes
Sensation and Perception
- Sensation is the process of detecting, transducing, and sending stimuli to the brain
- Perception is the interpretation of raw sensory input by the brain
- Perception is influenced by current sensory input, past experiences, and current expectations
- The study of how we perceive sensory stimuli based on their physical characteristics is called psychophysics
- Absolute threshold: the lowest level of a stimulus needed for the nervous system to detect it 50% of the time
- Just Noticeable Difference (JND): the smallest change in the intensity of a stimulus that can be detected
- Weber's Law: a constant proportional relationship between the JND and the original intensity of a stimulus
- Sensory adaptation: the decrease in responsiveness to a stimulus over time
- Signal detection theory: how stimuli are detected under different conditions
- Parts of a trial: Hit, Miss, False Alarm, Correct Rejection
- Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR): the ratio of the strength of a signal to background noise
- Perceived stimuli are influenced by current experience, past experience, current expectations and the way our brain processes information
- Perceptual set: expectations influencing a perception
- Perceptual constancy: perceptual stimuli that are consistent across varied conditions
- Parallel Processing: enables us to simultaneously attend to several sensory inputs
- Bottom-up Processing: building up a complete perception from smaller parts
- Top-down Processing: conceptual perceptions influenced by prior learning and belief
- Motion Blindness: neurological disorder where one cannot perceive motion
- Visual Agnosia: failure to see a visual stimulus not associated with poor intelligence or memory issues, often due to brain damage
The Other Senses
- Students should read pages 137-143 (hearing), 144-148 (body senses), and 148-154 (chemical senses) of their textbook
- The material is covered on the second midterm
Police Lineups
- Sequential Method: accuracy rate is 30%
- Simultaneous Method: accuracy rate is 39%
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