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Course outline

About NPTEL

How does an NPTEL online course work?

Week 0 : Prerequisite

Week 1 : Introduction to the science of human

behavior

Week 2 : Sensation & Perception-I

Week 3 : Perception-II, Learning

Lec 1:Perception - II

Lec 2:Learning - I

Lec 3:Learning - II

Text Notes

Quiz: Week 3 Assignment 3.1

Quiz: Assignment 3.2

Week 3: Feedback form

Week 4 : Memory and Language-I

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Week 3 Assignment
3.1
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2024-03-13, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2024-

03-05, 15:40 IST
All Questions are Compulsory

Marks [ 1x10=10 ]

1) Characteristics of objects in the visual field 1 point

such as shape and color are called _____
features

primitive
illusory
integration
conjunction
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
primitive
2) The region of the retina associated with a 1 point
particular cell in the visual cortex is called that cell's

receptive field.
feature detector.
simple cells
hypercomplex region

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
receptive field.

3) Feature detectors are 1 point

located in the visual cortex

located in the retina of each eye
important for later stages of shape recognition
important for top-down processing

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
located in the visual cortex

4) At the market, you recognize the smell of freshly 1 point

baked cinnamon rolls. The process of interpreting the complex
combination of odors as cinnamon rolls is called

sensation
introspection
perception
transduction

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
perception

5) Scanning a visual stimulus 1 point

begins in the center of the stimulus and moves

in concentric circles toward the outside edges
involves a smooth, continuous movement of the
eyes
involves a series of short information gathering
pauses of the eyes
cannot be reliably studied in the human
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
involves a series of short information gathering
pauses of the eyes
6) Figure-ground relationships 1 point

are only important for visual information

become important if we ignore context
information
can be perceived in vision and other senses as
well.
are established by ignoring depth cues
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
can be perceived in vision and other senses as well.
7) The difference in views perceived by each 1 point
eye is called

monocular vision
binocular disparity
distance perception
visual depth perception.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
binocular disparity
8) A "motion aftereffect" is 1 point

apparent movement opposite of what you have been

watching
continued movement in the direction of what you have
been watching
the inability to see motion for a short time after
watching long periods of steady movement
the spontaneous apparent motion of an object fixated
on the retina

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
apparent movement opposite of what you have been
watching

9) Even if some of the bulbs in an electric sign are 1 point

burned out, we tend to see complete letters. This is due to the
Gestalt principle of

constancy.
closure
binocular convergence
similarity

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
closure

10) The stimulation of specialized motion cells appear 1 point

to be responsible for our perception of

motion aftereffect
stroboscopic motion
motion parallax
induced motion

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
motion aftereffect