Ch.1: What is Perception

Question 1

Transduction

Answer 1

converting physical stimuli, such as light and sound energy, into neural signals within our sensory organs

Question 2

Plato

Answer 2

perceptions are reflections of true forms in the outside world

Question 3

Socrates

Answer 3

senses do not grasp reality in any way

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

perception comes about with <an organ’s> being changed and affected … for it seems to be a kind of alteration

Question 5

John Locke

Answer 5

Primary qualities resemble sensory objects while secondary qualities are ideas in our minds that do not

Question 6

George Berkley

Answer 6

All perception is reflection, ideas in the mind

Question 7

David Hartley

Answer 7

all is in the mind

Question 8

David Hume

Answer 8

Reality is unknowable

Question 9

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 9

Established the first Psychological laboratory in 1879. Studied perception, Established Structuralism (perceptions are composed of small units).

Question 10

Hermann von Helmholtz

Answer 10

promoted the constructivist view of perception and developing the trichromatic theory of color vision

Question 11

Gestalt Psychology

Answer 11

laws of perceptual organization describe how we group features to form edges

Question 12

Bottom-up

Answer 12

stimulus driven information originates from your senses and flows upwards to activate higher cognitive representation

Question 13

Top-down

Answer 13

conceptually driven information originates from your knowledge and memories and flows downwards to activate perceptual representations. Ideas activate words, words activate the letters inside them – if a letter / sound is missing in a word, you use top-down information to replace it.

Question 14

Prosopagnosia

Answer 14

Acciqured deficit in face perception because of brain damage