Unit 5 (perception)

Question 1

The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory information, which enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events is known as ___________

Answer 1

Perception

Question 2

We as humans can only pay attention to a few of the thousands of sensory stimulation going on every second, this fact is known as ______ ______ (**)

Answer 2

Selective Attention

Question 3

The ability to concentrate on one voice in a sea of many vices that is known as the ________ _______ _______ (*)

Answer 3

Cocktail Party Effect

Question 4

The Cocktail party effect is due to _______ _______ where you process one aspect of stimulus or problem at a time (*)

Answer 4

Sequential Processing

Question 5

When you fail to see an object that is in your line of vision we call that ________ _______ (**)

Answer 5

Inattentional Blindness

Question 6

When you fail to notice that something has changed we call that _______ ______ (**)

Answer 6

Change Blindness

Question 7

_______ ______ specialize in how we can take many parts and organize them into a “whole” (*)

Answer 7

Gestalt Psychologists

Question 8

The Gestalt Principal that explains that we organize things based off of what we are concentrating on and what is in the background (**)

Answer 8

Figure/Ground

Question 9

The Gestalt Principle of organization that talks about how we group things based on how they are grouped together (***)

Answer 9

Proximity

Question 10

The Gestalt Principle of organization that talks about how we group things based on how similar things are (****)

Answer 10

Similarity

Question 11

The Gestalt Principle of organization that talks about how we take things that are almost finished and finish them using our mind (shapes) (****)

Answer 11

Closure

Question 12

Our ______ ______ allows us to judge distances

Answer 12

Depth Perception

Question 13

Psychological studies done with a ______ ______ (Gibson and Walker) help point to the fact that infants have depth perception as well

Answer 13

Visual Cliff

Question 14

What does Binocular Cues of Depth Perception include (****)

Answer 14

Any form of Depth perception that involves 2 eyes

Question 15

A Binocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how the retina sends the brain 2 different pictures, and our brain finds differences between the pictures and uses it to find depth

Answer 15

Retinal Disparity

Question 16

A Binocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how as objects move close to our eyes, our eyes move in, and vise versa for something is going out. This sends info to our brain about how close the object is

Answer 16

Convergence

Question 17

What does the Monocular Cues of Depth Perception include

Answer 17

Forms of depth perception that only use 1 eye

Question 18

A Monocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how if 2 objects look alike, the bigger one will seem closer

Answer 18

Relative Size

Question 19

A Monocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how if an object blocks another object, it’ll seem closer

Answer 19

Interposition

Question 20

A Monocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how clear things seem close and fuzzy things seem far away

Answer 20

Relative Clarity

Question 21

A Monocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how detailed things seem close and non detailed things seem far away

Answer 21

Texture Gradient

Question 22

A Monocular Cue of Depth Perception that talks about how parallel lines appear to converge in the distance. The closer the lines appear to be the further away it seems

Answer 22

Linear Perspective

Question 23

Our _____ _____ determines that objects traveling towards us tend to grow in size, while objects moving away tend to shrink

Answer 23

Motion Perception

Question 24

_______ ______ is an illusion of continuous movement from looking at a rapid series of slightly varying still images

Answer 24

Stroboscopic Movement

Question 25

When lights flash at a certain speed they tend to present the illusion of motion, this is called _____ ______

Answer 25

Phi Phenomenon

Question 26

The ______ _______ explains that when is a dark room a still light will seem to move

Answer 26

Autokinetic Effect

Question 27

Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illuminations and retinal images change is known as _______ _______

Answer 27

Perceptual Consistency

Question 28

A form of Perceptual Consistency that talks about how the size of objects tend to remain the same no matter how close or far away is called _______ _______

Answer 28

Size Constancy

Question 29

A form of Perceptual Consistency that talks about how the brightness of an object tends to stay the same in every setting is called ______ ______

Answer 29

Lightness Constancy

Question 30

A form of Perceptual Consistency that talks about how the color of an object tends to stay the same in every setting is called ______ ______

Answer 30

Color Constancy

Question 31

A view of perception that states that perception is inborn/nature (*)

Answer 31

Immanuel kant’s (Nature) view of perception

Question 32

A view of perception that states that perception is learned/nurture (*)

Answer 32

John Lock’s (nurture) view of perception

Question 33

What 3 things do those with restored vision see (and one for kittens)

Answer 33

1) They could differentiate between figure/ground, but couldn’t distinguish shapes (Vonsenden, 1937)
2) They could recognize distinct features of a face, but couldn’t recognize entire faces
3) Kittens raised without exposure to horizontal lines later had difficulty perceiving horizontal bars (Blakemore + Cooper, 1970)

Question 34

A visual ability to adjust to an artificially displaced visual field is known as _______ _______ (EX: upside down glasses) (*)

Answer 34

Perceptual Adaptation

Question 35

When people believe that they had seen the Loch Ness monster they were likely experiencing a ______ _______, where they had a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not the other. (Think of the hidden messages in songs) (**)

Answer 35

Perceptual Set

Question 36

what are the 2 parts of Shemas on facial recognition

Answer 36

1) children’s shemas for faces develop earlier than other body parts
2) Face schemas are created by distinct features of the face

Question 37

The ______ of something can effect how you perceive it (**)

Answer 37

Context

Question 38

If your culture determines what you see that is known as a _______ _______ (**)

Answer 38

Culture Context

Question 39

______ ______ ______ design machines that assist our natural perceptions

Answer 39

Human Factor Psychologist

Question 40

Perception without sensory input is called _____ ______. Most claims of this have been disproven in Psychological laboratories

Answer 40

Extrasensory Perception (ESP)