Psychology- perception

Question 1

What is it meant by the term perception?

Answer 1

The way sensory information is organised, interpreted, and consciously experienced.

Question 2

What is meant by the term sensation?

Answer 2

The information we receive through our senses.

Question 3

What is meant by the term binocular depth cue?

Answer 3

The images taken in by both eyes to give depth perception, or stereopsis.

Question 4

One type of monocular depth cue is height in plane. Explain.

Answer 4

How things that are further away often appear to be positioned higher up.

Question 5

What is meant by the term monocular depth cue?

Answer 5

The information in the retinal image that gives us information about depth and distance

Question 6

One type of monocular depth cue is relative size. Explain.

Answer 6

Gives you the ability to measure how far away something is.

Question 7

One type of monocular depth cue is occlusion. Explain.

Answer 7

Occlusion is a monocular depth cue produced by partially overlapping objects.

Question 8

One type of monocular depth cue is linear perspective. Explain.

Answer 8

Linear perspective is a monocular cue because the effects are manifested as actual differences in distance and size that require only a single eye to perceive.

Question 9

Outline how retinal disparity and convergence are used to perceive distance and depth.

Answer 9

The brain uses retinal disparity to estimate the distance between the viewer and the object being viewed.

Question 10

What is meant by the term size consistency?

Answer 10

a property that guarantees the consistency of the energy behaviour when interaction between the involved molecular system is nullified

Question 11

What is meant by the term misinterpreted depth cues?

Answer 11

objects apparently in the distance. scaled up by the brain to look normal size, cause visual illusions.

Question 12

What is meant by the term monocular fiction?

Answer 12

When your brain thinks there something there when there actually isn’t.

Question 13

What is meant by the term monocular ambiguity?

Answer 13

perceived in multiple ways.

Question 14

The Muller-Lyer visual illusion is an example of misinterpreted depth cues. Explain how misinterpreted depth cues cause this visual illusion.

Question 15

The Ponzo visual illusion is an example of size consistency. Explain how size consistency cause this visual illusion.

Question 16

The Kanizsa triangle visual illusion is an example of fiction. Explain how fiction causes this visual illusion.

Question 17

Explain the role of motion parallax in everyday perception.

Answer 17

Provides a powerful cue to three-dimensional scene structure.

Question 18

Explain the role of optic flow patterns in perception.

Answer 18

plays an important role in the perception of the shape of objects and the layout of the environment

Question 19

Describe one strength of Gibsons constructivist theory of perception

Answer 19

it was developed using research with pilots in the real world.

Question 20

Describe one weakness of Gibson’s constructivist theory of perception

Answer 20

cannot explain why perceptions are sometimes inaccurate, e.g. in illusions.

Question 21

What is Gregory’s belief about perception?

Answer 21

This view states that perception depends on making inferences based on past experiences.

Question 22

Explain what is meant by inference and how it affects perception.

Answer 22

A phenomenon in which mental processing is made slower and less accurate by competing mental processes

Question 23

Explain what is meant by visual cues and how it affects perception.

Answer 23

Sensory cues received by the eye in the form of light and processed by the visual system during visual perception