Unit 3 Sensation And Perception

Question 1

Taking sensory information and then assembling and integrating it

Answer 1

Bottom up processing

What am I seeing

Question 2

Using models ideas and expectations to interpret sensory information

Answer 2

Top down processing

Is that something I’ve seen before?

Question 3

Visual
Auditory
Hearing
Taste
Touch

Answer 3

5 senses

Question 4

Refers to the physical stimulation of the sensory receptors

Answer 4

Sensation

Question 5

Involves interpreting this sensory information

Answer 5

Perception

Question 6

Senses driven
Rely on information from senses
Lower level cognition
Organizing info

Answer 6

Bottom up

Question 7

Schema driven
Rely on knowledge and experiences
High level cognition
Interpreting info

Answer 7

Top down

Question 8

Light waves strike the eye

Rode and cones in the retina

Answer 8

Visual

Question 9

Sound waves striking the outer ear

Cochlear hair cells in the inner ear

Answer 9

Hearing

Question 10

Chemical molecules breathing in through the the nose

Millions of receptors at top of nasal cavity

Answer 10

Smell

Question 11

Any change in positions of the body part, interaction with visions

Kinesthetic sensors in joints tendons and muscles

Answer 11

Position/ movement of body parts kinesthesis

Question 12

Movement of fluids in the inner ear caused by head/body movement

Hairlike receptors in the semi circular canals and vestibular sacs

Answer 12

Position/ movement of head vestibular sense

Question 13

We perceive objects higher in our field of vision as farther away because we perceive the lower part of a figure ground

Answer 13

Relative hight

Question 14

If we assume two objects are similar in size most people perceive the one that casts the smaller retinal image as farther away

Answer 14

Relative hight

Question 15

If one object partially blocks our view of another we perceive it as closer

Answer 15

Interpersonal

Question 16

Parallel lines such as railroad tracks appear to converge in distance the more they converge the greater their perceived distance

Answer 16

Linear perspective

Question 17

As we move objects that are actually stable may appear to move

Answer 17

Relative motion

Question 18

An organized whole, these psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Answer 18

Gestalt

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Figure ground

Question 20

Th perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Answer 20

Grouping

Question 21

We group nearby figures together

Answer 21

Proximity

Question 22

We group similar figures together

Answer 22

Similarity

Question 23

We perceive smooth continued patterns rathe than discontinuous ones

Answer 23

Continuity

Question 24

Because they are uniform and linked, we perceive each set of two dots and the line between them as a single unit

Answer 24

Connectedness

Question 25

We fill in gaps to create a complete whole object

Answer 25

Closure

Question 26

The ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two dimensional allows us to judge distance

Answer 26

Depth perception

Question 27

A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals used for Eleanor Gibson and Richard walk to determine whether crawling infants could perceive depth

Answer 27

Visual cliff