Module 15 + 16 TEST!!
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- Not being easily distracted by the extraneous sounds while reading illustraes what?
- Selective attention
- the cocktail part effect is an example of what?
- selective attention
- estimating distances of white disks in both fog and sunny conditions, which estimate views the disks as farthest?
- foggy
- which sense tends to dominate the others?
- vision
- as organized "whole" is the understanding of which approach?
- gestalt
- according to Gestalt approach is the whole more than the sum of the parts, or the sum of the parts greater than the whole?
- whole is greater than sum of parts.
- the principles of the gestalt approach support which processing?
- top-down processing.
- percieving an object 'distinct' from its surroundings is called what?
- figure ground
- the moon is to the sky,as___ is to ____.
- figure, ground.
- the principles of continuity and closure best illustrate that sensations are organized into?
- meaningful patterns
- what is closure?
- gaps
- percieving all the rungs in a latter as parts of a single unit demonstrates the principle of what?
- connectedness
- visual cliff is a device for testing what?
- depth perception
- infants are likely to avoid crawling over the edge of a visual cliff is they have?
- depth perception
- the somewhat different images our two eyes recieve of the same object identifies what?
- retinal disparity
- the floating finger sausage demonstrates the effect of what?
- retinal disparity
- convergence is a _____ cue for distance?
- binocular
- with 2 objects the same size, the object with the smaller retinal image is percieved to be what?
- further away
- the cue where closer objects appear clearer and more distinct than do distant objets is which clue?
- relative clarity
- what is most essential for depth perception in the visual cliff?
- texture gradient
- objects high in our field of vision are father away demonstrates which clue?
- relative height
- airport runway lights shroudedinthick fog might confuse a pilots distance perception because of what clue?
- relative brightness.
- what is stroboscopic movement?
- flashed images
- what is the phi phenomenon?
- blinking lights to create movement
- as the retinal image of a truck approaching you becomes larger, it is unlikely that the truck grows larger, illustrates which phenomenon?
- size constantcy
- the percieved size of an object is most strongly influenced by that objects percieved what?
- distance
- the effect of the moon near the horizon appearing larger than when it is high in the sky is a result of what?
- distance
- the moon illision, the ponzo illusion, the muller-lyer illusion are all understood, by knowing the effects of the perceived what?
- distance
- the phenomenon of lightness constancy best illustrates the importance of what?
- relative luminance
- who emphasized the perceptual understanding comes from inborn way of organizing sensory experiences?
- Kant
- which philosopher belived that people learn to percieve the world through experience?
- Locke
- Locke is to Kant as ___ is to ____.
- nurture;nature
- blind from birth, after corrective eye surgery 'sizy' can perceive figureground relationships. this supports whose position on perceptual skills?
- Kant
- visual restriction during infancy has a more lasting effect than the same restriction in adulthood?
- true
- born with cataracts, that were removed when 3 years old, 'suzy' most likely lacks what in her visual cortex?
- neural connections
- what is the hability to adjust to an artificially displaced, or even inverted, visual field?
- perceptual adaptation
- research with distorting goggles best supports the view of human perception advanced by?
- locke
- forming a wrong idea about reality, and then having difficulty seeing the truth illustrates the danger of?
- perceptual set
- stereotypes are most similar to what perceptual condition?
- perceptual set
- concepts that help us to interpret ambiguous senstations are called?
- schemas
- seeing her professor daily, and not recognizing him in the grocerty store illustrates the importance of?
- context
- learngint that many students failed the chapter 6 test 'suzy' is now pleased with her C grade illustrates the importance of?
- context
- _____ psychologiests would most likely be invovled in designing computer keyboards.
- human factor psychologists.
- what is parapsychology?
- study of ESP.
- what is telepathy?
- ability to read minds
- waht is clairvoyance?
- percieving events elsewhere.
- police department psychics have demonstrated which type of esp?
- none
- what is precognition?
- predicting the future
- what is psychokinesis?
- power to move objects
- many people who have been acclaumed for having ESP have been shown to be frauds?
- true
- what is the greatest difficulty facing contemporary parapsychology?
- lack of evidence
- the ganzfeld procedure is used to study what?
- telepathy
- percieving an object as unchanging is shape regardless of changes the angle view illustrates what?
- shape constancy
- who emphasized perception depends on innate ways of organizing sensory experience?
- Kant
- what is the perceptual adaptation?
- adjusting to distortions
- what is perceptual set?
- mental predisposition
- the impact of perceptual set illustrate the importance of which processiong?
- top down
- what are concepts that organize sensory input?
- schema
- which species was once thought to possess clairvoyance avoiding colliding with objects in the dark?
- bats
- most research psychologists now believe ther is or there is not reliable evidence supporting the existance of ESP?
- there is not.