Download Sensation and Perception in Psychology and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Exam 1: Chapter 6 (PSYCH 105) What term refers to the process by which our nervous system receives and represents light, sound, etc. in our environment? - correct answer ✔✔Sensation What is the process of reorganizing and interpreting information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events? - correct answer ✔✔Perception __________ __________ = the minimum stimulation needed to detect a light, sound, etc. 50% of the time. - correct answer ✔✔Absolute threshold A study of __________ stimulation includes having geometric shapes briefly popping up on a computer screen, and then asking the individual to name a geometric shape later. The individual will likely name the shape they saw earlier without even realizing it. (the popcorn study is another example, although it was fake). - correct answer ✔✔Subliminal Subliminal messages do or do not persuade us as advertisers claim? - correct answer ✔✔Do not What term refers to humans hearing what they are told to listen for? (video played backward and Dr. Vogl asks us if we hear a certain set of words). - correct answer ✔✔Backward masking Whose law states that the amount of physical energy needed to produce a change in sensation is proportional to the original level of physical energy? - correct answer ✔✔Weber's Law For humans to notice a difference, you must take away/add what fraction of the energy? (Place a 1 pound weight in Bob's right hand and a 1.2 pound weight in his left hand. He will not notice a difference. Place 1 pound in his right and 1.3 pounds in his left, and he will notice a difference). - correct answer ✔✔One third __________ effects an aspect of cognitive psychology that describes the influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus. - correct answer ✔✔Context What refers to our experiences, assumptions, and expectations giving us a mental predisposition that influences what we perceive? - correct answer ✔✔Perceptual set What principle are rules that describe how the human eye perceives visual elements. These principles aim to show how complex scenes can be reduced to more simple shapes. They also aim to explain how the eyes perceive the shapes as a single, united form rather than the separate simpler elements involved. - correct answer ✔✔Gestalt principle What form perception term refers to bringing order to stimuli/we can show that the whole is different than the sum of the parts? - correct answer ✔✔Grouping What refers to grouping nearby figures? (Grouping things that are physically close together as being together) - correct answer ✔✔Proximity What refers to grouping similar figures? - correct answer ✔✔Similarity Grouping things that perceive continuous patterns refers to: - correct answer ✔✔Continuity What type of grouping refers to filling in the gaps of what you visually see? - correct answer ✔✔Closure When we perceive spots/lines as a single unit when linked, we are exercising what type of grouping? - correct answer ✔✔Connectedness The ability to perceive depth is mostly innate. For example, a baby goat knows not to approach a cliff because it is dangerous. This refers to what study? - correct answer ✔✔Visual Cliff studies What refers to the fact that each eye has a slightly different view of the world, and as distance increases, differences decrease (20 feet away or less)? - correct answer ✔✔Retinal disparity When the eyes turn inwards, this is called: - correct answer ✔✔Convergence