Unit 3: Sensation and Perception Part 2

Tonya’s psychology teacher played some backwards music to the class, and they were not able to make out any words or phrases in the selection. When the teacher told them to listen for the words “The rat ate the cat” when she played it again, most of the class now heard the words. Which principle explains this experience?

• A context effect

• Perceptual set

• Extrasensory perception

• Selective attention

• Weber’s law

On a warm summer day, Kimberly tells her brother to put on a suit. Kimberly’s brother knows to put on a swimsuit instead of a business suit because of

• context.

• priming.

• sensory adaptation.

• bottom-up processing.

• clairvoyance.

A famous psychic is a YouTube sensation because of his ability to read the minds of people in the audience at his shows. Which type of psychic power would he claim?

• Precognition

• Psychokinesis

• Clairvoyance

• Telepathy

• Bottom-up processing

A teacher used distortion goggles, which shifted the wearer’s gaze 20 degrees, to demonstrate an altered perception. A student wearing the goggles initially bumped into numerous desks and chairs while walking around, but after 30 minutes of wearing the goggles was able to smoothly avoid obstacles, illustrating the concept of

• perceptual adaptation.

• visual interpretation.

• sensory adaptation.

• perceptual constancy.

• binocular cues.

What do we call the illusion of movement that results from two or more stationary, adjacent lights blinking on and off in quick succession?

• Phi phenomenon

• Perceptual constancy

• Binocular cues

• Retinal disparity

• Stroboscopic movement

Bryanna and Charles are in a dancing competition. It is easy for spectators to see them against the dance floor because of

• the visual cliff.

• the phi phenomenon.

• color constancy.

• sensory restriction.

• figure-ground relationships.

Narmeen is viewing the board in the classroom. She knows that the board is located far away because the view from her left eye is slightly different than the view from her right eye. Her ability to judge the distance of the board is due to which depth cue?

• Retinal disparity

• Relative size

• Linear perspective

• Relative motion

• Convergence

Which of the following statements is best explained by research on depth perception using the visual cliff?

• Binocular depth cues develop before monocular depth cues.

• Monocular depth cues develop before binocular depth cues.

• Human infants are born with an innate sense of depth.

• Human infants must learn to perceive depth.

• Humans do not develop the perception of depth until 24 months of age.

Even though the banana seemed to change color as the lighting in the room changed, Jane knew that the color of the banana was not actually changing. This is due to

• perceptual adaptation.

• convergence.

• color constancy.

• interposition.

• relative luminance.

Which of the following is the best example of your kinesthetic sense?

• Touching your nose with your eyes closed

• Maintaining balance in your chair

• Detecting both sweet and sour in a beverage

• Smelling the soup that is cooking for dinner

• Combining smell and taste together to create flavor