Perception/thinking and creativity Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is the Placebo effect?
a fake treatment can have real effects
What is a Just-noticeable difference?
the smallest change you can detect
What is Webers law?
The change needed to notice something depends on the original size
What’s Top-down processing?
Using what you know to interpret sensory info
What is bottom-up processing?
Starting with the sensory info to build understanding
What is a schema?
mental framework for understanding the world (mental folders- helps organize thoughts easier)
What is a perceptual set?
Tendency to see things a certain way based on past experiences
What is a figure-ground relationship?
Focusing on one thing while ignoring the backround
What is proximity?
Grouping things that are close together
What is similarity?
Grouping things that look alike
What is continuity?
Seeing smooth patterns instead of broken ones
What is closure?
filling in missing parts of a picture
what is a visual cliff?
an experiment that shows depth perception in babies
What is an algorithm?
a step-by-step method to solve a problem
what is a heuristic?
a shortcut or rule of thumb to solve problems quickly
what is representativeness heuristic
judging based on how similar something is to a prototype
What is availability heuristic?
judging something based on how easily it comes to mind
What is functional fixedness?
only seeing one use for an object
What is creativity?
coming up with new,useful ideas
What is convergent thinking?
narrowing down to one solution
What is divergent thinking?
Thinking of many possible solutions
