Imagine That You Attend a Lecture Given by a Guest

question 60

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you attend a lecture given by a guest lecturer. He emphasizes that people can recognize complex shapes and other visual images-such as animals and machinery-in terms of arrangements of basic 3-D shapes. This lecturer probably would be a strong supporter of which of the following approaches?

• A) Top-down processing
• B) Template-matching theory
• C) Feature-analysis theory
• D) Recognition-by-components theory

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