AP Psychology Unit 3 Topic 1 & 2

Which of the following in not a Gestalt Theory of Perception principle?

• Principle of longitude

• Principle of proximity

• Principle of similarity

• Principle of continuity

Depth cues, such as convergence, that depend on the use of two eyes.

• Gestalt Cue

• Binocular Cue

• Monocular Cue

• Subliminal Cue

The faces or vase figure illustrates the Gestalt organizing principle of

• Figure-ground

• Closure

• Common fate

• Proximity

 Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus and blocking out all other stimuli.

• Parallel Processing

• Absolute Threshold

• Weber's Law

• Selective attention

Below one’s absolute threshold for conscious awareness.

• Subliminal

• Extrasensory

• Unconscious

• Superconscious

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.

• Selective attention

• Perceptual Set

• Perceptual adaptation

• Habituation

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

• Habituation

• Kinesthesis

• Sensation

• Perception

Our tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes

• Depth Perception

• Top-Down Processing

• Gestalt

• Visual Agnosia

The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the

• adaptation threshold.

• difference threshold.

• subliminal threshold.

• absolute threshold.

• change threshold.

The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as

• the opponent-process theory.

• Weber's law.

• feature detection.

• sensory interaction.

• the difference threshold.