Cognition: Perception

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In psychology, perception is the process by which:

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neural impulses from the senses are organized, and interpreted

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A door casts an increasingly trapezoidal image on our retinas as it opens, yet we still perceive it as rectangular. This illustrates _____.

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shape constancy

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The example below that best illustrates the concept of selective attention is ________.

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change blindness

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We tend to see these five circles as two groups of two circles, then one circle by itself (we don't normally see this as a group of five circles). This shows the principle of _____

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proximity

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This slight difference between the two images is ______.

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retinal disparity

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In this image, people tend to see a clockwise movement around a circle - but if you look closely, you'll see there's no movement, just circles briefly disappearing in a pattern. This is an example of ______

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the phi phenomenon

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Imagine you have your eyes closed. If someone asks you to open your eyes and look at a cloud, saying “Doesn't it look like a penguin?” they have affected your:

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perceptual set

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Look at this image: we tend to see object (a) as a curve on a rectangle, not as two images as in (c). This is:

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continuity

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This Coke ad – seen as both a fork and knife, and a Coke bottle in between – is a reversible image. It’s an example of which principle?

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figure-ground

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According to the principle of similarity, objects that look similar are likely to be perceived as ______ .

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belonging to the same group