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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Definitions:

Sociologists

Scholars who study society and social behavior by examining the groups, institutions, and processes that people develop and participate in.

Ethnomethodologists

Researchers who study the ways in which people create, maintain, and understand their social realities through everyday practices.

External Constraints

Factors outside an individual's immediate control that limit or influence their actions and decisions.

Social Structures

The complex pattern of relationships that shape any society. It determines how individuals and groups interact with each other, the roles they play in society, and how they are socially positioned.