WorksheetsAP Psychology Unit 3 Topic 1 & 2
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
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.
Although Sue Yen sees her chemistry teacher several times a week, she didn't recognize the teacher when she saw her in the grocery store. This best illustrates the importance of
monocular cues.
context effects.
proximity.
linear perspective.
perceptual adaptation.
While singing to you on your birthday, your friends leave off the very last word of the song, “Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear David, Happy birthday to….” Your tendency to mentally fill in the last word best reflects which of the following Gestalt principles of organization?
continuity
proximity
connectedness
closure
figure and ground
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.
Selective attention
Sensation
Perception
Accommodation
constructs perceptions from sensory input by drawing on your experience and expectations
Top-down-processing
Perceptual set
Bottom up-Processing
Selective attention
An illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession
Phi phenomenon
Color constancy
Figure-ground
Perceptual constancy
According to signal detection theory if Bob fails to hear a noise but a noise is made, this is a
Hit
False Alarm
Correct Rejection
Miss
A german word meaning "pattern" or "whole".
Threshold
Stimuli
Faust
Gestalt
