Crash Course Psychology 7 Perceiving is Believing

“the top-down way our brains organize and interpret information and put it into context."

• Retention
• Organization
• Sensation
• Perception

Upside down faces take a moment longer to process since it is not what we are used to.

• True
• False

“the psychological factors that determine how you perceive your environment.”

• Preconceived notions

• Perceptual set
• Expectations
• Contexual evidence

Context (expectation, mood, culture, etc...) does not influence our perception.

• True
• False

“Form perception” and “Figure-ground relationship” are ways we simplify what we are sensing.

• True
• False

lets us group nearby figures together

• Proximity
• Continuity
• Closure
• Depth perception

lets us see smooth patterns but not broken ones

• Proximity
• Continuity
• Closure
• Depth perception

lets us fills in gaps to create whole objects

• Proximity
• Motion perception
• Closure
• Depth perception

lets us estimate distance and shape

• Proximity
• Continuity
• Motion perception
• Depth perception

lets us infer the speed and direction of moving objects

• Proximity
• Continuity
• Closure
• Motion perception