Basic Principles of Sensation & Perception
Influences on Perception
Vision
Visual Organization & Interpretation
Hearing & Your Other Senses
100
Your ability to attend to only one voice among many.
What is Cocktail Party Effect?
100

A person who is hungry sees the word "bread" and thinks it means "food" while another person sees the same word and interprets it as "money" or a religious term. This is an example of....

What is Perceptual Set?

100
This part of the eye carries information to your brain, where the thalamus will receive and distribute the information.
What is the Optic Nerve?
100
This group of 20th century psychologists developed many of our laws of perceptual organization
What is the Gestalt Psychologists?
100
The following analogy describes THIS hearing process: Like soldiers who alternate firing so that some can shoot while others reload, neural cells can alternate firing. By firing in rapid succession, they can achieve a combined frequency above 1000 waves per second.
What is the Volley Principle?
200

You are walking in your home at night. You can navigate without tripping because your brain uses your mental map of the furniture (_______ processing) to guide your movement, even though it's dark and you can't see much (______ processing).

What are Top-Down and Bottom-Up?

200
When Eric Bledsoe (Point Guard for the Milwaukee Bucks) stands next to Thon Maker (Center for the Bucks) he looks really short. However Bledsoe is 6' 2 and well above the average height for a man. The perception of him being short is the result of....
What are Context Effects?
200
This is the retina's area of central focus. It is also where the cones cluster in and around.
What is the Fovea?
200
Information that the brain receives from both retinas to determine depth for short distances
What is Binocular Cues?
200
In waves, this determines the pitch we experience.
What is Frequency?
300
Conversion of one form of energy to another. For example in vision light waves are converted to a chemical messages.
What is Transduction?
300
When Jews viewed a variety of symbols on a page, one of which was a swastika, they showed a far lower recall memory of the symbols than other participants. This was most likely because of...
What is Motivation and Emotion?
300
This is the pathway light travels through the eye. First, light enters the eye through the cornea. Then....(name the 3 parts of the eye for the light's continued pathway).
What are Pupil, Lens, Retina?
300
Name at least four Gestalt Laws of perceptual organization...
What are Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, and Closure?
300
Sensing the position and movement of individual body parts is an example of....
What is Vestibular Sense?
400
To function effectively, we need ____________________ _____________________ low enough to allow us to detect important sights, sounds, textures, tastes, and smells.
What are Absolute Thresholds?
400
What determines our Perceptual Sets? Where do they come from?
What is our Schemas/Experiences?
400
These two physical characteristics of light help determine our sensory experience of them.
What are Hue and Intensity?
400
Identify at least TWO constancies that the brain imposes on the world
What is Color, Shape, Brightness, Size?
400
The brain can interpret loudness from the ____________ of activated _______________________.
What are Number and Hair Cells?
500
Jack walked into psychology class and immediately was overwhelmed by Eric's body odor. He turned away and covered his nose. However, after the first few minutes of class Jack no longer noticed Eric's body odor.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
500
Identify the four main types of ESP...
What are Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, and Psychokinesis?
500
Color is interpreted in an opponent-process by these two structures in the brain.
What is the Thalamus & Occipital Lobe?
500
The illusion of movement that results from two or more stationary, adjacent lights blinking on and off in quick succession...
What is the Phi Phenomenon?
500
After holding a warm drink rather than a cold one, people are more likely to rate someone warmly and feel closer to them. This is an example of....
What is Embodied Cognition?
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