Sensation & Perception Part 5

Question 1

Ability to see objects in 3 dimensions although the images that strike the retina are 2 dimensional

Answer 1

Depth-Perception

Question 2

Allows us to judge distance

Answer 2

Depth-Perception

Question 3

Laboratory device for testing depth perception for infants

Answer 3

Visual Cliff

Question 4

What 2 people found that depth perception is some part innate

Answer 4

Gibson & Walk

Question 5

Depth cues that depend on information from both eyes

Answer 5

Binocular Cues

Question 6

Differences between the images received by the left and right eye because of viewing the world from slightly different angles

Answer 6

Retinal Disparity

Question 7

Neuromuscular binocular depth due based on the extent to which the eyes converge or turn inward when looking at near objects

Answer 7

Convergence

Question 8

Depth cues that depend on information from either eye alone

Answer 8

Monocular Cues

Question 9

Parallel lines that appear to converge in distance

Answer 9

Linear Perspective

Question 10

Blocking of one object by another

Answer 10

Interposition

Question 11

Perceive something farther away as being smaller

Answer 11

Relative Size

Question 12

Objects higher in visual field appear farther

Answer 12

Relative Height

Question 13

Clear objects that appear closer than blurry or fuzzy obejcts

Answer 13

Relative Clarity

Question 14

Nearby objects reflect more light in our eyes than distant objects

Answer 14

Light & Shadow

Question 15

Closer the object is, the clearer the amount of detail

Answer 15

Texture Gradient

Question 16

Makes objects closer to us appear to move faster than those farther away

Answer 16

Motion Parallax

Question 17

Illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in succession

Answer 17

Phi Phenomenon

Question 18

Series of pictures shown at a fast rate of speed suggest motion

Answer 18

Stroboscopic Movement

Question 19

Perception that objects have consistent lightness, color, shape, size, even as illumination and retinal images change

Answer 19

Perceptual Constancy

Question 20

Our ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

Answer 20

Perceptual Adaptation

Question 21

Perceive things accordingly but soon adjust by learning the relationship between our distorted perception and the reality

Answer 21

Perceptual Adaptation

Question 22

Mental Predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

Answer 22

Perceptual Set

Question 23

Organized body of information or framework the enables us to organize information

Answer 23

Schema

Question 24

Explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environment can be adapted to human behaviors

Answer 24

Human Factors Psychology

Question 25

Study of ESP, Psychokinesis and Paranormal forms of interaction between the individual and the environment

Answer 25

Parapsychology

Question 26

Controversial claim that perception can occur without sensory input

Answer 26

Extrasensory Perception ESP

Question 27

Included telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

Answer 27

Extrasensory Perception ESP

Question 28

Mind Reading

Answer 28

Telepathy

Question 29

Ability to speak with the dead

Answer 29

Clairvoyance

Question 30

Ability to foretell the future

Answer 30

Precognition

Question 31

Ability to move objects with one’s mind

Answer 31

Psychokinesis

Question 32

Studied the relationship between stimuli and Sensation

Answer 32

Gustav Fechner

Question 33

What 2 people discovered feature detectors

Answer 33

David Hubel & Torsten Wiesel

Question 34

Neurons in the visual association cortex that focus specifically on edges, lines, angles, curves, and movements

Answer 34

Feature Detectors

Question 35

What two people completed their experiment with cats

Answer 35

David Hubel & Torsten Wiesel

Question 36

German physician whose study of sensation using strict experimental techniques brought scientific credibility to psychology

Answer 36

Ernst Weber