Sensation & Perception

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

• Gestalt Cue

• Binocular Cue

• Monocular Cue

• Subliminal Cue

Our tendency to integrate pieces of info into meaningful wholes

• Depth Perception

• Top-Down Processing

• Gestalt

• Visual Agnosia

Which one is NOT one of the 4 basic tastes?

• Spicy
• Sour
• Salty
• Bitter

What does this picture show?

• similarity
• closure
• figure ground
• Connectedness

information processing guided by your pre existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions.

• top down processing
• Bottom up processing
• parallel processing

In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated

• opponent-process theory.
• inattentional blindness.
• blind spot.
• visual cliff.
  

Taste and smell are both what kind of senses?

• vestibular
• kinesthetic
• energy
• chemical

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

• Parapsychology
• Psychophysics
• Functional psychology
• Gestalt psychology

The inner ear contains receptors for:

• Audition and kinesthesis
• Kinesthesis and the vestibular sense
• Audition and the vestibular sense
• Audition, kinesthesis and the vestibular
  sense

Which principle of perception allows us to perceive objects as having consistent shape and size, despite changes in the viewing angle?

• Perceptual Constancy

• Sensory Adaptation

• Subliminal Message

• Signal Detection Theory