Unit 2 Review 2.1-2.4

Which of the following best describes bottom-up processing?

• Information processed by higher-level mental processes

   

•  The brain's integration of sensory information from sensory receptors

• The use of schemas to interpret unfamiliar information

• Mental tendencies that affect what we perceive

What is a perceptual set?

• A group of similar objects

• The ability to fill in gaps in visual information

• Mental tendencies and assumptions that affect perception

• The process of organizing sensory information

What phenomenon describes the failure to notice changes in the environment?

• Selective attention

    

   

•  Change blindness

• Inattentional blindness

• Perceptual constancy

Retinal disparity is an example of which type of depth cue?

• Monocular

• Binocular

• Linear Perspective

• Texture Gradient

5. The cocktail party effect is most closely related to which perceptual process?

• Change Blindness

• Selective Attention

• Perceptual Constancy

• Apparent Movement

What does perceptual constancy allow us to do?

• Perceive objects as unchanging despite changes in illumination and retinal images

• Group similar objects together

• Fill in gaps in visual information

• Focus conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

Which perceptual principle explains our ability to see a complete circle even when part of it is missing?

• Proximity

• Similarity

• Closure

• Continuity

How does linear perspective contribute to depth perception?

• By comparing retinal images from two eyes

• By showing how parallel lines appear to converge in the distance

• By demonstrating how objects partially block our view of other objects

• By illustrating changes in surface detail as distance increases

Sarah sees a new animal at the zoo that looks like a horse but has black and white stripes. She decides it must be a type of horse. This is an example of:

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Functional fixedness

• Mental set

A student is trying to solve a math problem and keeps using the same approach that worked for previous problems, even though it's not effective for this new one. This demonstrates:

• Algorithm

• Heuristic

• Mental Set

• Framing