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Senses
Attention & Thresholds
Form Perception
Depth Perception
General Perception
100
The 4 basic sensations in the sense of touch
What are warm, cool, pressure, pain?
100
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.
What is perception?
100
On this screen, the words represent the figure. The blue is this.
What is ground? (Figure-ground)
100
This famous experiment at THE Ohio State University showed us that depth perception is at least partially innate.
What is the visual cliff experiment?
100
A big airplane and a small airplane are both attempting to land at Logan. You are watching from the terminal. This is the one that looks like it is moving faster.
What is the smaller one?
200
Sight is based on this type of wave.
What is a light wave? (Electromagnetic Spectrum)
200
I suspect some students are listening to their iPods under their hoodie because I hear music. When I take off their hoodies they are in fact listening to them. According signal detection theory this is a this.
What is the Hit?
200
This grouping principle likely means that you see 3 groups, not 6 here: -- -- --
What is proximity?
200
The most widely known and important two eye visual cue, tells us that our brain will compare the images from each eye and help us compute the distance between the object and ourselves. The bigger the difference between the images, the farther away from us it is.
What is a binocular cue? (Specifically Retinal Disparity is described here)
200
You attempt to name a color but the text is printed in a different color. It is hard. This is the name of the effect.
What is the Stroop Effect?
300
The 5 basic tastes.
What is salty, bitter, sweet, sour, umami?
300
After a long day at school, you arrive home and want nothing more than to take a nap. You lay down, close your eyes, and begin trying to sleep. But you notice that there is a tiny noise, so quite you can't even identify it, but you know its there, is what this is.
What is the absolute threshold?
300
This grouping principle tells us that we fill gaps to create a complete, whole object. Simply adding a line that closes a 3/4 circle can hid a triangle that we clearly see with out it.
What is closure?
300
Our ability to determine distance, using only one eye.
What is a monocular cue?
300
A mental predisposition influenced by top-down processing of our experiences, assumptions, and expectations that makes it hard to find a black 4 of diamonds.
What is a perceptual set?
400
The theory that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain.
What is the gate-control theory?
400
According to signal detection theory this is the best description of this scenario. You think you see a vampire. In reality its just a weird guy in a cloak.
What is a false alarm?
400
In the famous picture of the old woman and the young lady, the philosophy tells us that the sum is more than the total of the parts.
What is gestalt?
400
One object overlaps another object. This makes us think the first object is closer to us. This is because of the principle of this.
What is interposition?
400
The technical name for the ability to know the future.
What is precognition?
500
The sense of hearing is based on this type of wave.
What is a sound wave? (pressure wave)
500
You need to study for AP Psych so you bring your book to school. One the way to school, you only have one notebook and the AP book in the bag so you clearly feel the weight of the AP book. But on the way home, you have 4 other text books, 3 notebooks, your gym cloths, and sneakers. You can't even feel the AP book anymore. This is what describes this scenario.
What is Just noticeable difference? (Reflective of Weber's Law)
500

This is the grouping principle at play here: 

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What is similarity?

500
Railroad lines appear to meet at a point in the distance. This is because of this monocular cue.
What is linear perspective?
500
Our ability to adjust. Exemplified by our ability to ride a motorcycle while wearing glasses that rotate our vision 180 degrees (upside down).
What is perceptual adaptation?