Sensation, Perception and Consciousness Practice Questions | GRE Subject Test Psychology

Sensation, Perception and Consciousness

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A participant views the classic ambiguous figure that can be seen as either a young woman or an old woman. The experimenter first shows 20 trials of elderly faces (wrinkles, gray hair) and then presents the ambiguous figure. Relative to a control group with no priming, the primed group reports the old-woman interpretation more often. Which inference best explains this effect?

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It demonstrates that low-level feature detectors in V1 changed their tuning as a result of priming.
It demonstrates that binocular disparity is necessary for recognizing faces in ambiguous figures.
It shows that perceptual constancy mechanisms for size are strengthened by repetition.
It indicates that the ambiguous figure is processed only by bottom-up feedforward pathways.
It is consistent with top-down processing in which prior context biases interpretation of ambiguous input.

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