Chapter 3

Question 1

Process by which our senses gather information and send it to the brain

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

5 Senses

Answer 2

Visual
Olfactory
Touch
Auditory
Taste

Question 3

The concentration of mental activity

Answer 3

Attention

Question 4

Set of processes (recognize,organize and make sense)

Answer 4

Perception

Question 5

A mental representation of stimulus that is perceived

Answer 5

Percept

Question 6

Ability to see the world in three dimensions

Answer 6

Depth perception

Question 7

Ability to identify the objects in view based

Answer 7

Object Perception

Question 8

Inability to process sensory information(objects)

Answer 8

Agnosia

Question 9

Face blindness called

Answer 9

Prosopagnosia

Question 10

inability to perceive more than a single object

Answer 10

Simultanagnosia

Question 11

Theories of perception

Answer 11

Bottom up and Top Down

Question 12

loss of past memory (unable to recall events that occurred before)

Answer 12

retrograde amnesia

Question 13

loss of memory

Answer 13

amnesia

Question 14

refers to a decreased ability to retain new information (50 first dates)

Answer 14

anterograde amnesia

Question 15

the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories (2-4 years old)

Answer 15

childhood amnesia

Question 16

loss of speech production

Answer 16

aphasia

Question 17

deterioration of hippocampus

Answer 17

korsakoff syndrome

Question 18

closer is in front of other objects

Answer 18

interposition

Question 19

images seem to be blurry when it is further

Answer 19

aerial perspective

Question 20

refers to the fact that we perceive depth when we see two parallel lines

Answer 20

linear perspective

Question 21

3 approaches to human perception

Answer 21

structuralist, gestalt, and constructivist approach

Question 22

father of structuralism

Answer 22

William Wundt

Question 23

visual perception defined according to location size intensity

Answer 23

structuralist approach

Question 24

a whole is more than the sum of its part

Answer 24

gestalt approach

Question 25

use of contexual info in pattern recognition (top down processing)

Answer 25

constructivist approach

Question 26

what we see, sense, know and infer

Answer 26

top-down theory

Question 27

cause varying symptoms throughout the body, including memory impairments, changes in the emotional state, and hallucinations

Answer 27

Disturbance in the temporal region of cortex

Question 28

objects get smaller at decreasing speed of distance

Answer 28

Motion parallax

Question 29

individuals organize their experience as simple, concise, symmetrical and complete manner

Answer 29

Law of Pragnanz

Question 30

the way we determine what part of environment is the figure

Answer 30

Figure-ground

Question 31

things that are near to each other are GROUPED together

Answer 31

Proximity

Question 32

objects of SIMILAR shape or color are grouped tend to be perceived as pattern

Answer 32

Similarity

Question 33

we organized the objects we see by finding CONTINOUS sequences

Answer 33

Continuity

Question 34

occurs when an object is incomplete or space is not completely enclosed

Answer 34

Closure

Question 35

symmetrical lines tend to be recognized as shapes rather than lines

Answer 35

Symmetry

Question 36

first to systematically investigate the figure-ground phenomenon

Answer 36

Edward Rubin (Danish)

Question 37

7 GENERAL PARTS OF HUMAN EYE

Answer 37

Cornea
Pupil
Iris
Lens
Vitreous humor
Retina
Sclera