Crash Course: Perceiving is Believing

True or false: Our perceptions are heavily influenced by expectations, experiences, moods, and cultural norms.

• True

• False

True or false: Your brain is doing all the work in forming your perceptions

• False

• True

Which three factors can influence someone's perceptual set? (Check all that apply)

• Culture

• Emotions and motivations

• State of consciousness

• Context

True or False: This all has to do with the Figure-Ground relationship of form perceptions. 

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT an organizing principle in constructing perceptions?

• proximity

• continuity

• complexity

• closure

Binocular cues enable visual depth perception based the fact that humans have:

• One eye

• Two ears

• One mouth

• Two eyes

This Bob Ross painting is a great example of the perceptual concept of...

• relative size

• texture gradient

If you look at a chihuahua and then it is turned upside down, you still recognize it due to:

• constancy

• consistency

• proximity

• continuity

What constructs your perceptions?

• your eyes 

• your brain

• your senses

• your experiences