Perception and Experience Study Guide

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Perception and Experience Study Guide Instructions This is an open-book, open-note assignment. However, your work should be your own – copying and pasting from other sources is plagiarism. If you aren’t sure of the answers, try your very best, and then go back to the readings and check your work. 1. In your own words, what is experience-dependent plasticity? What are some potential examples from your own experiences? experience-dependent plasticity is when connections are formed throughout life because of things that we have experienced. We take things that we have through and use the knowledge we gain from that and make connections with other things throughout our life. One example of this could be when I was younger, I learned to read. I was reading a book and messed up out loud. This stuck with me and still now to this day, when I see the grammar I messed up on, I am able to recognize the correct way to use it. 2. How do the experiments with the cats demonstrate experience-dependent plasticity? The experiments with the cats demonstrate experience-dependent plasticity because they are able to take what they had gone though, and connect it to the new task. When their eyes were covered for a couple of weeks, their brain adjusted and when they switched the eyes, it caused the connections from that eye to switch over to the other, 3. How do the experiences of those who gain sight as an adult demonstrate experience dependent plasticity? (Be specific from the readings.) When adults gain sight later on in their life, they can experience-dependent plasticity. It takes a little bit of time, but their brain is able to form natural connections between feelings, smells, experiences and help them put them together so they can understand. 4. How do the experiences of those who use Brainport demonstrate experience- dependent plasticity? The video says that “your brain is what really sees, not your eyes. If your eyes don't work, you can create another portal into the brain, then your brain is what is going to interpret the world around you.”. We see that the brain connects with the brainport and allows her to experience things she normally wouldn’t. These are natural connections that form.

5. In your own words, what is the light-from-above assumption? How does this demonstrate experience-dependent plasticity? The light-from-above assumptions is when we make an assumption based on light comping from above, this assumption influences our perception in some situations. For examole, it might lead someone to perceive a raised surface as a bump or hill, and a depressed surface as a hollow or valley. This is a connection between one thing and the other. The connection is formed based on our brain assuming this. 6. In your own words, what is the oblique effect? How does this demonstrate experience dependent plasticity? I have a hard time understanding the oblique effect but Im going to try to explain it. I think it is when we can see small, tiny differences between vertical and horizontal orientations and it is seen easier then if we are trying to spot these differences in other orientations, such as diagonal or slants. I think it shows experience dependent plasticity because our brain makes connections between the orientation and our eyes. Is this right? 7. In your own words, what is speech segmentation? How does this demonstrate experience dependent plasticity? Speech Segmentation is when we can recognize individual words even when there are no significant pauses between these words. This is experience dependent plasticity because our brain can make connections between the sounds and form the words in our brain.

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