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23 Cards in this Set
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What are false or misleading perceptions?
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Illusions
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Describe the Muller-Lyer Illusion?
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What are the three basic processes of perception?
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Selection
Organization Interpretation |
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What are the three factors involved in selection?
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Selective Attention
Feature Detectors Habituation |
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What is the filtering out and attending only to important sensory messages?
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Selective Attention
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What are specialized neurons that respond only to certain sensory information?
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Feature Detectors
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What is the tendency of the brain to ignore environmental factors that remain constant?
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Habituation
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What is the assembling of information into patterns that help us understand the world?
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Organization
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What four factors do we use to organize sensory information?
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Form
Constancy Depth Color |
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Gestalt psychologists developed laws explaining how people perceive form according to:
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Figure and ground
Proximity Continuity Closure Similarity |
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What is the tendency for the environment to be perceived as remaining the same even with changes in sensory input?
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Perceptual constancy
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What are the four best-known constancies?
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Size
Shape Color Brightness |
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Describe the Ames Room Illusion.
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What is the ability to perceive three-dimensional space and accurately judge distance?
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Depth perception
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What is a visual input from two eyes that allows perception of depth or distance?
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Binocular cues
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What is a visual input from a single eye alone that contributes to perception of depth or distance?
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Monocular cues
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What is a binocular cue to distance where the separation of the eyes causes different images to fall on each retina?
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Retinal disparity
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What is a binocular depth cue in which the closer the object, the more the eyes converge, or turn inward?
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Convergence
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What are the six monocular depth cues?
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Linear perspective
Interposition Relative size Texture gradient Aerial perspective Light and shadow |
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Define trichromatic.
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Young’s theory that color perception results from mixing three distinct color systems (red, green, and blue)
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Define opponent-process theory.
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Hering’s theory that color perception is based on three systems of color opposites (blue-yellow, red-green, and black-white)
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What are the two theories of color perception?
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Trichromatic and Opponent-process theories
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What are the four major factors involved with interpretation?
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Perceptual adaptation
Perceptual set Frame of reference Bottom-up or top-down |
