Ch. 4 - Perception (Gestalt)

Question 1

closure

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Answer 1

organizing our perceptions into complete objects rather than as a series of parts

Question 2

figure-ground relationship

Answer 2

segmenting our visual world into figure and ground

Question 3

sensory modalities

Answer 3

type of sense; for example, vision or audition

Question 4

multimodal perception

Answer 4

the effects that concurrent stimulation in more than one sensory modality has on the perception of events and objects in the world

Question 5

multimodal phenomena

Answer 5

effects that concern the binding of inputs from multiple sensory modalities
rubber hand illusion: the false perception of a fake hand as belonging to a perceiver, due to multimodal sensory information

Question 6

multimodal

Answer 6

of or pertaining to multiple sensory modalities

Question 7

McGurk effect

Answer 7

an effect in which conflicting visual and auditory components of a speech stimulus result in an illusory percept

Question 8

integrated

Answer 8

the process by which the perceptual system combines information arising from more than one modality

Question 9

crossmodal phenomena

Answer 9

effects that concern the influence of the perception of one sensory modality on the perception of another

Question 10

multimodal phenomena

Answer 10

effects that concern the binding of inputs from multiple sensory modalities