Unit 3: Part 4: Other Senses and Influences on Perception

Question 1

Gustation

Answer 1

taste

Question 2

Olfaction

Answer 2

smell

Question 3

Kinesthesis

Answer 3

voluntary movement - sensing position/movement of ind. body parts

Question 4

Vestibular Sense

Answer 4

sense of balance - tied to hearing

Question 5

Pain

Answer 5

gate control theory - spinal cord

Question 6

Touch

Answer 6

pressure, warmth, cold, pain

Question 7

Sensory Interaction

Answer 7

one sense may influence another

Question 8

Embodied Cognition

Answer 8

how the senses, gestures, and other states influence cognition

Question 9

Clairvoyance

Answer 9

perceiving remote events or images

Question 10

Telekinesis

Answer 10

mind-to-mind communication

Question 11

Precognition

Answer 11

knowledge of future events before they occur

Question 12

Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Answer 12

controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensroy input

Question 13

Parapsychology

Answer 13

the study of paranormal phenomena

Question 14

Perceptual Set

Answer 14

a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and no another; through experience we come to expect certain results

Question 15

Schemas

Answer 15

mental frame work for organizing and understanding the world around us

Question 16

Influences of Perception

Answer 16

Expectations, Stereotypes, Context, Motivation, Emotion

Question 17

Key Idea of IoP

Answer 17

top-down processing, our personal experiences, assumptions and expectations can shape and color our views of reality

Question 18

Gestalt Principles

Answer 18

an organized whole

Question 19

Figure and Ground Principle

Answer 19

our brain wants to perceive an object as distinct from its surroundings

Question 20

Proximity

Answer 20

people tend to organize objects close to each other into a perceptual group and interpret them as a single entity

Question 21

Continuity

Answer 21

the quality or state of being unending or connected into a continuous whole

Question 22

Closure

Answer 22

the illusion of seeing an incomplete stimulus as though it were whole

Question 23

Similarity

Answer 23

people tend to organize objects with similar qualities into a perceptual group and interpret them as a whole

Question 24

Connectedness

Answer 24

the thought that even though each person is their own distinct, physical being, people are also connected to each other and nature, not by language but just by having a deeper sense of being