Psychology Chapter 8: Sensation and Perception

the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

• perception
• sensation
• bottom-up processing
• sensory adaptation

The historical movement associated with the statement “the whole may exceed the sum of its parts” is:

• Parapsychology
• Psychophysics
• Functional psychology
• Gestalt psychology

Which of the following statements is consistent with the Gestalt theory of perception?

• Perception develops largely through learning
• Perception is the product of heredity
• The mind organizes sensations into meaningful perceptions
• Perception results directly from sensation

Figures tend to be perceived as whole, complete objects, even if spaces or gaps exist in the representation, thus demonstrating the principle of:

• Closure
• Proximity
• Continuity
• Similarity

Although carpenter Smith perceived a briefly viewed object as a screwdriver, police officer Wesson perceived the same object as a knife. This illustrates that perception is guided by:

• Linear perspective 
• Shape constancy
• Retinal disparity
• Perceptual sets

Depth cues that only require one require one eye,

• Binocular Cue
• Trichronocular Cue
• Monocular Cue
• Single Vision Transparency

The door is a door, no matter what angle it is opened. This is an example of:

• Perceptual adaptation
• Perceptual constancy
• Relative size
• Extrasensory Perception

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of others' behaviors. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• retinal disparity
• interposition
• top-down processing
• perceptual adaptation

If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates: 

• parallel processing
• accommodation
• sensory adaption
• Weber's Law

As we look at a flower, the intensity, or brightness, of the color we see is related to the light wave’s:

• amplitude
• hue
• length
• placement on the spectrum