perception (unit 3)

Question 1

perception

Answer 1

process of organizing and interpreting sensory information

Question 2

form perception

Answer 2

we must perceive a figure from its ground up

Question 3

depth perception

Answer 3

transform 2D-3D

Question 4

motion perception

Answer 4

brain computes motion as images move across retina

Question 5

perceptual interpretation

Answer 5

how we can recognize an object

Question 6

selective attention

Answer 6

focusing of conscious awareness on particular stimulus

Question 7

cocktail party effect

Answer 7

ability to attend selectively to one voice among many

Question 8

inattentional blindness

Answer 8

inability to see an object in our midst

Question 9

change blindness

Answer 9

when you do not notice something changes cause you are so focused on something else

Question 10

visual capture

Answer 10

tendency for vision to dominate other senses

Question 11

gestalt

Answer 11

tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Question 12

figure ground

Answer 12

figures that stand out from their surroundings

Question 13

grouping

Answer 13

perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Question 14

proximity

Answer 14

groups nearby figure together

Question 15

simularity

Answer 15

group figures that are similar

Question 16

continuity

Answer 16

perceive continuous patterns

Question 17

connectedness

Answer 17

spots, lines, and areas are uni when connected

Question 18

closure

Answer 18

fill in the gaps

Question 19

depth perception

Answer 19

ability to see things in 3-D and allows us to judge distance

Question 20

visual cliff

Answer 20

suggest that human infants have depth perception (crawling age)

Question 21

binocular cues

Answer 21

require both eyes

Question 22

retinal disparity

Answer 22

images from two eyes differ

Question 23

convergence

Answer 23

two eyes move inward for near objects

Question 24

monocular cues

Answer 24

available to each eye separately

Question 25

relative size

Answer 25

smaller image is more distant

Question 26

interposition

Answer 26

if one objects blocks another we perceive it as closer

Question 27

relative clarity

Answer 27

hazy objects are seen as more distant

Question 28

texture gradient

Answer 28

course objects appear closer and fine objects are distant

Question 29

relative height

Answer 29

objects higher in field of vision appear farther away

Question 30

relative motion

Answer 30

closer objects seem to move faster

Question 31

linear perspective

Answer 31

parallel lines appear to converge with distance

Question 32

light and shadow

Answer 32

closer objects appear brighter; shading produces depth

Question 33

motion perception

Answer 33

objects traveling towards us increase in size and objects moving away decrease in size

Question 34

phi phenomenon

Answer 34

illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off

Question 35

stroboscopic movement

Answer 35

brain will interpret rapid series of slightly varying images as continuous movement

Question 36

perceptual constancy

Answer 36

perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

Question 37

template matching

Answer 37

brains have template for everything

Question 38

prototype matching

Answer 38

see what best example of something is see close enough to match

Question 39

feature analysis

Answer 39

break down feature into parts and analyze what it is

Question 40

immanuel kant

Answer 40

knowledge comes from innate way of organizing sensory experiences

Question 41

john locke

Answer 41

through experience we learn to perceive the world

Question 42

perpetual set

Answer 42

mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

Question 43

schemas

Answer 43

concepts that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

Question 44

human factors psych

Answer 44

explores how humans and machines interact

Question 45

extrasensory perception

Answer 45

controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input

Question 46

parapsychologists

Answer 46

people who study beyond normal occurrences

Question 47

telepathy

Answer 47

mind to mind communication

Question 48

clairvoyance

Answer 48

perceiving remote events

Question 49

precognition

Answer 49

perceiving future events

Question 50

psychokinesis

Answer 50

mind over matter