Psychology Chap 1

Front 1

Sensation

Back 1

occurs anytime a stimulus activates one of your receptors.

Front 2

Stimulus

Back 2

The enviroment which an organism responds.

Front 3

Perception

Back 3

interpretation of a sensation

Front 4

Absolute Threshold

Back 4

level of stimulus that proceduces a positive response of detection 50 percent of the time.

Front 5

Attention

Back 5

process of focusing your perception of a limited number of your stimuli.

Front 6

2 factors of attention:

Back 6

Stimuli
Individual

Front 7

Gesalt

Back 7

The experiences that comes from organizing bits and

Front 8

Proximity

Back 8

tendency to group together those elements that are close to each other.

Front 9

Continuity

Back 9

tendency to see smooth contineous contours rather than discrete, disrupted shapes.

Front 10

Similarity

Back 10

tendency to group together those lements that are similar

Front 11

Simpicity

Back 11

tendency to perciever a pattern in the simplest most organized manner

Front 12

Closure

Back 12

tendency to group according to enclosed or completed rather than open

Front 13

Figure-Ground Perception

Back 13

the ability to discriminate properly between a figure and its background
Ex:3-D, 2-D

Front 14

Subliminal Perception

Back 14

auditory or visual messages presented below the absolute threshold.

Front 15

Depth perception

Back 15

ability to reconize distances and threedimensionality

Front 16

Textur-Density gradient

Back 16

amount of detail

Front 17

linear perspective

Back 17

based on the fact that parallel lines converge when streched

Front 18

convergence

Back 18

process by which you eyes turn inward to look at nearby objects.

Front 19

Constancy

Back 19

people are able to percieve objects as the same by the processes of size, shape, brightness, and color

Front 20

illusion

Back 20

perceptions that miss represent physical stimuli.