Cognition

Question 1

. A term denoting all mental processes we
use to transform sensory input into knowledge

Answer 1

COGNITION

Question 2

. The focusing of our limited capacities of
consciousness on a particular set of stimuli, more of
whose features are noted and processed in more depth
than is true of nonfocal stimuli.

Answer 2

ATTENTION

Question 3

. The feelings that result from excitation of
the sensory receptors such as touch, taste, smell, sight,
or hearing.

Answer 3

SENSATION

Question 4

. The process of gathering information
about the world through our senses; our initial
interpretations of sensations.

Answer 4

PERCEPTION

Question 5

. A method used to determine if one stimulus
affects another

Answer 5

PRIMING

Question 6

are perceptions that involve an
apparent discrepancy between how an object looks and
what it actually is.

Answer 6

Optical illusions

Question 7

suggests that people in
urbanized, industrialized societies are used to seeing
things that are rectangular in shape and unconsciously
come to expect things to have squared corners because
much of their world is carpentered

Answer 7

carpentered world theory

Question 8

suggests
that people interpret vertical lines as horizontal lines
extending into the distance.

Answer 8

front-horizontal foreshortening theory

Question 9

suggests that people in Western cultures focus more on
representations on paper than do people in other
cultures and spend more time learning to interpret
pictures.

Answer 9

symbolizing three dimensions in two theory