Suppose that you are looking at an advertisement that features a large figure. At first, you think ...

Suppose that you are looking at an advertisement that features a large figure. At first, you think you are looking at a star.
 
  However, when you look closer, you realize that some of the star's edges are not actually shown on the paper, yet they seem to be physically present. This perceptual experience is called
   a. a template.
   b. an example of bottom-up processing.
   c. a distinctive feature.
   d. an illusory contour.

Question 2

Feature-analysis approaches
 
  a. state that we store a template for each letter of the alphabet.
  b. cannot explain how we manage to recognize handwritten letters of the alphabet,
  c. are contradicted by neuroscience research.
  d. make predictions about why an R would be confused with a P, rather than a W.

Question 3

The recognition-by-components theory argues that we recognize an object by
 
  a. analyzing the arrangement of simple 3-dimensional shapes that form the object.
  b. comparing each object to the idealized version of that object, as stored in long-term memory.
  c. registering each major line, curve, and angle of an object.
  d. perceiving the overall form of an object as one complete shape or gestalt.

Question 4

Suppose that a psychologist loans you an art book and says that the book includes some interesting ambiguous figure-ground pictures. You should expect to see
 
  a. a random arrangement of black-and-white figures.
  b. a photo of real-life figures, rather than black-and-white shapes.
  c. a picture in which a specific region is the central figure one moment, but this region becomes the background the next moment.
  d. a picture that has at least two subjective contours.