Accuracy and inaccuracy in perception

Question 1

Cocktail party phenomenon

Answer 1

The experience of being at a party and talking to someone in one part of the room, when suddenly you hear your name being mentioned by someone in another part of the room

Question 2

Embodied

Answer 2

Built into and linked with our cognition

Question 3

Illusions

Answer 3

Occur when the perceptual processes that normally help us correctly perceive the world around us are fooled by a particular situation so that we see something that does not exist or that is incorrect.

Question 4

McGurk effect

Answer 4

An effect in which conflicting visual and auditory components of a speech stimulus result in an illusory percept.

Question 5

Moon illusion

Answer 5

The fact that the moon is perceived to be about 50% larger when it is near the horizon than when it is seen overhead, despite the fact that in both cases the moon is the same size and casts the same size retinal image.

Question 6

Mueller-Lyer illusion

Answer 6

The line segment in the bottom arrow looks longer to us than the one on the top, even though they are both actually the same length.

Question 7

Perceptual constancy

Answer 7

The ability to perceive a stimulus as constant despite changes in sensation

Question 8

Saccades

Answer 8

Quick, simultaneous movements of the eyes

Question 9

Selective attention

Answer 9

The ability to select certain stimuli in the environment to process, while ignoring distracting information.

Question 10

Sensory adaptation

Answer 10

Decrease in sensitivity of a receptor to a stimulus after constant stimulation.

Question 11

sensory interaction

Answer 11

The working together of different senses to create experience

Question 12

Synesthesia

Answer 12

An experience in which one sensation (e.g., hearing a sound) creates experiences in another (e.g., vision).