ap psychology chapter 5

Question 1

closure

Answer 1

fill in the gaps

Question 2

common fate

Answer 2

same speed and same direction

Question 3

common region/enclose

Answer 3

boundaries group objects/people

Question 4

continuity

Answer 4

smooth continuous lines

Question 5

connectedness

Answer 5

joined together goes together

Question 6

proximity

Answer 6

close together goes together

Question 7

similarity

Answer 7

similar characteristics go together

Question 8

synchrony

Answer 8

two different stimuli are together

Question 9

signal detection theory

Answer 9

mathematical model on whether or not you detect a signal

Question 10

correct rejection

Answer 10

no signal/not detecting something

Question 11

false alarm

Answer 11

no signal/thought you were detecting something

Question 12

hit

Answer 12

detect something/signal was there

Question 13

miss

Answer 13

not detecting something/signal was there

Question 14

absolute threshold

Answer 14

smallest/weakest amount of stimuli needed to be detected 50 percent or more of the time

Question 15

attention

Answer 15

the process of directing and focusing one’s resources

Question 16

binocular disparity

Answer 16

each eyeball sees a different image allowing the perception of depth

Question 17

bottom-up processing

Answer 17

using senses/data first to perceive; babies use this more

Question 18

change blindess

Question 19

cocktail party effect

Question 20

computational approach

Answer 20

having to take in everything

Question 21

constructivist approach

Answer 21

still taking in information, but in bigger chunks

Question 22

convergence

Answer 22

the more our eyes have to cross eye, the closer the image is

Question 23

covert orienting

Question 24

depth perception

Question 25

ecological approach

Answer 25

taking in very little/no information; adapted to our environment

Question 26

fechner's law

Answer 26

noticing a change in light or sound

Question 27

figure-ground discrimination

Question 28

height in the visual field

Question 29

inattentional blindness

Question 30

interposition

Answer 30

if an object is blocking another object, that object is closer

Question 31

just-noticeable difference

Question 32

linear perspective

Answer 32

farther the point is, the farther the lines go

Question 33

locus coeruleus

Answer 33

part of the brain that helps us direct/focus our attention

Question 34

looming

Answer 34

throwing a baseball and the image growing/getting bigger on your retina, getting closer and closer so it looks like the baseball is getting bigger, but it stays the same shape

Question 35

motion parallax

Answer 35

2 things happening at once, driving and seeing trees moving fast, and a mountain in the distance not moving

Question 36

multitasking

Question 37

ocular accomodation

Question 38

overt orienting

Question 39

perception

Question 40

perceptual organization

Question 41

perceptual sets

Answer 41

your expectations/assumptions

Question 42

phi phenomenon

Answer 42

a motion illusion

Question 43

psychophysics

Answer 43

research that looks at physical stimuli (sensation) and psychological research

Question 44

relative size

Answer 44

things are relevant size

Question 45

response criterion

Answer 45

how much or what criteria is needed to detect a stimuli

Question 46

schemas

Answer 46

mental representations; the thoughts about any person, place, or thing

Question 47

selective attention

Answer 47

notion that we can only focus our resources on part of the perceptual world

Question 48

sensitivity

Question 49

signal detection theory

Answer 49

ability to detect a stimuli/influenced by signal strength, good or bad senses, any kind of background noise/distraction

Question 50

steven's power law

Answer 50

noticing a shock/pain and temperature

Question 51

stimulus ambiguity

Answer 51

when a situation is incomplete, we fill in the gaps with what we assume is going to happen

Question 52

stroboscopic motion

Question 53

subliminal stimuli

Answer 53

stimuli that is noticed/detected 49.9 percent or less of the time

Question 54

supraliminal stimuli

Answer 54

stimuli that is noticed/detected 50 percent or more of the time

Question 55

texture gradient

Answer 55

the more texture/details, the closer the object is

Question 56

top-down processing

Answer 56

knowledge driven

Question 57

visual cliff

Question 58

weber's law

Answer 58

noticing a change in weight, how heavy or light it was to begin with

Question 59

texture

Answer 59

same texture go together

Question 60

simplicity

Answer 60

look for the simplest form

Question 61

perception constancy

Question 62

robert fante and human/baby faces