Perception Deck

Question 1

Gestalt Psychologist that first demonstrated insight through his chimp experiences, He noticed the problem-solving processes wasn’t slow, but sudden and reflective.

Answer 1

Wolfgang Kohler

Question 2

He asked people to immerse their hands in cold water for 3 trials, and discovered that most patients wanted to repeat the trial that was longer, with more net pain, but less pain at the end.

Answer 2

Daniel Kahneman

Question 3

A visual illusion in which the perception of motion is generated by a series of stationary images that are presented in rapid succession.

Answer 3

Stroboscopic Movement

Question 4

A phenomenon that takes place when the eye looks at a stationary, bright, light in the dark for a long time, and after a period of time the light appears to move but really is not.

Answer 4

Autokinetic Effect

Question 5

Depth cues, such as retinal disparity that depend on the use of 2 eyes

Answer 5

Binocular Cues

Question 6

A laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals

Answer 6

Visual Cliffs

Question 7

The ability to see object in 3 dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are 2 dimensional; allows us to judge distance

Answer 7

Depth Perception

Question 8

The organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground)

Answer 8

Figure Ground

Question 9

An organized whole. These psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Answer 9

Gestalt

Question 10

The theory that opposing retinal processes (Red-Green)(Yellow-Blue) (White-Black), enables color vision

Answer 10

Opponent Process Theory

Question 11

A mental predisposition to precieve one thing and not another

Answer 11

Perceptual sets

Question 12

The environment in which a stimulus even occurs, especially as this influences memory, learning, judgement, or other cognitive processes.

Answer 12

Context

Question 13

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

Answer 13

Schema

Question 14

The theory that the retina contains 3 different color receptors - one most sensitive to red, one to green, and one to blue - which, when stimulated in combination, can produce the perception of any color

Answer 14

Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic theory

Question 15

In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

Answer 15

Perceptual adaptation

Question 16

Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the objects

Answer 16

Color Constancy

Question 17

Perceiving objects as unchanging, (having consistent shapes, size, lightness, and color) even as illumination and retinal images change.

Answer 17

Perceptual Constancy

Question 18

An illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession.

Answer 18

Phi Phenomenon

Question 19

Depth cues, such as interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye alone

Answer 19

Monocular Cues

Question 20

A binocular cue for perceiving depth: by comparing images from the retinas in the 2 eyes. The brain computes distance - the greater the disparity (Difference) between the 2 images the closer the object.

Answer 20

Retinal Display