4-2: processing

Question 1

3 diff. processing:

Answer 1

parallel, bottom-up, top-down

Question 2

what is parallel processing

Answer 2

attending to multiple senses at once

Question 3

bottom-up processing

Answer 3

features of stimulus affect out interpretation (info/data drive) - example: facial perception

Question 4

what is top-down processing

Answer 4

our belief affect out interpretation (knowledge/expectation driven)

Question 5

what is size constancy

Answer 5

perceive as the same size no matter how far something is from us in an image

Question 6

what is perceptual constancy

Answer 6

our brain’s ability to perceive the thing as stable & unchanging

Question 7

shape constancy

Answer 7

perceive as the same shape, even if it moves

Question 8

color constancy

Answer 8

perceive as the same color across different levels of lighting

Question 9

what are gestalt principles? (perception)

Answer 9

our brains ability to perceive things as a single/unified form

Question 10

what is depth perception

Answer 10

our brains ability to see objects in 3-d

Question 11

what are monocular cues

Answer 11

stimuli that enable us to judge depth using only one eye

Question 12

what are binocular cues

Answer 12

stimuli requiring both eyes working together (disparity: finger & eyes trick, convergence: estimating distance)

Question 13

sublimal perception: priming

Answer 13

unconscious activation of certain association in memory, may weakly effect behavior

Question 14

what is illusionary correlation

Answer 14

we assume there is meaning in correlation and underestimate the chance of coincidences

Question 15

what is perceptual set

Answer 15

a mental tendency to perceive things a certain way based on expectations