The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting our sensations.
What is Perception?
100
Sincerely believed that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Who is Die Gestalt?
100
When traveling in a car, near objects seem to move past you faster than distant objects This is called?
a- aerial perspective
b-linear perspective
c- relative size
d- relative motion
What is Reletive Motion?
100
A visual receptor that sees in black and white.
What is a rod?
100
The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called
a- sensory completion
b-closure
c- figure-ground
d- continuation
What is closure?
200
Tine hair-like projections that receive odor molecules. Some act as receptors in the nose.
What is Cilia?
200
Argues that perception is direct, and not subject to hypotheses testing
Who is James Gibson
200
Internal Standards used to judge stimuli are referred to as?
a- adaptation level
b- context
c- intuition
d- frames of reference
What is frames of reference?
200
Part of eye containing millions of receptors for light
What is Lens?
200
Who is the best Psychology Teacher
Who is Mr. Weaver?
300
piece of skin stretched over the entrance of the ear; vibrates to sound.
What is an Ear Drum?
300
argues that perception is a constructive process that relies on top-down processing.
Who is Richard Gregory?
300
Illusions are
a- distortions of existing stimuli
b- same as hillucinations
c- the result of innate mechanisms
d- not based on external reality
What is Distortions of existing stimuli?
300
How high or low a sound is
What is pitch?
300
Black of the eye
What is Retina?
400
Refers to the use of contextual information in pattern recognition.
What is Top-Down Processing?
400
This person Supports Bottom-up processing
Who is James Gibson?
400
The underlying mechanism for perceptual expectancies is
a- top-down processing
b- bottom down processing
What is top down processing?
400
Chemical receptors on the tongue that decode molecules of food or drink to identify them.
What are taste receptors?
400
Attention is aroused by
a- subtle differences in stimuli
b- bright stimuli
c- contrast in stimuli
d- subliminal stimuli
What is contrast in stimuli?
500
Is also known as data-driven processing, because perception begins with the stimulus itself.
What is Bottom-up processing?
500
Supports Top-down processing.
Who is Richard Gregory?
500
Which of the following is considered a monocular cue for depth?
a- convergence
b- accommodation
c- depth perception
d- singularity
What is Convergence?
500
The ability to perceive an object as the same color regardless of the environment.