Perception

Question 1

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info:

Answer 1

Perception

Question 2

We must perceive a figure from its ground:

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Form Perception

Question 3

Transforms 2D into 3D:

Answer 3

Depth Perception

Question 4

Brain computes motion as images move across the retina:

Answer 4

Motion Perception

Question 5

How we recognize an object:

Answer 5

Perceptual Interpretation

Question 6

The ability to attend selectively to one voice among many:

Answer 6

Cocktail Party Event

Question 7

Inability to see an object or person in our midst

Answer 7

Inattentional Blindness

Question 8

A form of inattentional blindness; when you do not notice when something changes because you are so focused on something else:

Answer 8

Change Blindness

Question 9

What are two perceptual illusions?

Answer 9

Muller-Lyer and Ames Room

Question 10

Muller-Lyer
Tall arch - the ___ dimension of the arch looks longer than the ____ dimension. However, both are the same:

Answer 10

Vertical; Horizontal

Question 11

Designed to demonstrate the size-distance illusion:

Answer 11

Ames Room

Question 12

The tendency for vision to dominate the other senses:

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Visual Capture

Question 13

The tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes:

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Gestalt

Question 14

Gestalt - an ____ ___:

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Organize Whole

Question 15

Gestalt Psychologists are fond of the saying that in perception ___ ____ may exceed the sum of its parts:

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The Whole

Question 16

People tend to perceive objecs in a simple, orderly way:

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Law of Pragnanz

Question 17

The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings:

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Figure-ground

Question 18

The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups:

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Grouping

Question 19

Group nearby figures together:

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Proximity

Question 20

Group figures that are similar:

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Similarity

Question 21

Perceive continuous patterns:

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Continuity

Question 22

Spots, lines, and areas are a unit when connected:

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Connectedness

Question 23

Fill in the gaps:

Answer 23

Closure

Question 24

Depth perception is the ability to see things in ___ and it allows us to judge ____:

Answer 24

3D; Distance

Question 25

Who created the Visual Cliff?

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Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk

Question 26

Suggested that human infants have depth perception:

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Visual Cliff

Question 27

Require both eyes:

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Binocular Cues

Question 28

Available to each eye separately; used by artistss:

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Monocular Cues

Question 29

Images from the two eyes differ; closer the object, the longer the disparity:

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Retinal Disparity

Question 30

Neuromuscular cue; two eyes move inward for new objects:

Answer 30

Convergence

Question 31

Convergence
The brain uses the ___ at which the eyes are turned to gauge distance:

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Angle

Question 32

Smaller image is more distant:

Answer 32

Relative Size

Question 33

If one object partially blocks another, we perceive it as closer:

Answer 33

Interposition

Question 34

Hazy objects are seen as more distant:

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Relative Clarity

Question 35

Course objects appear closer and fine objects are distant:

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Texture Gradient

Question 36

Objects higher in our field of vision appear farther away; vertical is longer than horizontal

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Relative Height

Question 37

Closer objects seem to move faster:

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Relative Motion

Question 38

Parallel lines appear to converge with distance:

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Linear Perspective

Question 39

Closer objects appear brighter; shading produces depth:

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Light and Shadow (Relative Brightness)

Question 40

Objects traveling towards us grow in size and those moving away shirk in size:

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Motion Perception

Question 41

An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession:

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Phi Phenomenon

Question 42

The brain will interpret a rapid series of slightly varying images as continuous movement:

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Stroboscopic Movement

Question 43

Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change:

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Perceptual Constancy

Question 44

Our brains have a template for everything we need to know and we match what we see to the templates:

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Template Matching

Question 45

We see what the best example of something is and see if they are close enough to match:

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Prototype Matching

Question 46

We break down a feature into parts and analyze what it is:

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Feature Analysis

Question 47

Knowledge comes from inborn ways of organizing sensory experiences:

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Immanuel Kant

Question 48

Shows our perception is influence by our environment:

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Blakemore and Cooper

Question 49

Visual ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field:

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Perceptual Adaptation

Question 50

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another:

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Perceptual Set

Question 51

Concepts that organize and interpret unfamiliar information:

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Schemas

Question 52

Perceptual sets are determined by what?

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Schemas

Question 53

Explores how humans and machines and interact:

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Human Factor Psychology

Question 54

Explores how machines and physical environments can be adapted to human behaviors:

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Human Factor Psychology

Question 55

The claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input (Sorry, Grandpa):

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ESP

Question 56

Mind to mind communication:

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Telepathy

Question 57

Perceiving remote events:

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Clairvoyance

Question 58

Perceiving future events:

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Precogniton

Question 59

Mind over matter:

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Psychokinesis