Psych 5a. Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception; Vision

Relative size, interposition, relative motion, and relative height are examples of _____ cues to depth perspective.

monocular

According to the textbook, "your eyes receive light energy and transform it into neural messages that your brain then processes into what you consciously see." Which choice CORRECTLY matches a phrase from this statement with the correct sensory or perceptual process?

"your brain then processes into what you consciously see" - perception

____ processing starts at the very basic level of sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing.

Bottom-up

You are a building contractor surveying the progress on a home that is being built. From one angle, it appears that the home is completely framed. However, when you move to the right, you see the gaps. This illustrates the Gestalt principle of _____.

closure

You are a building contractor surveying the progress on a home that is being built. From one angle, it appears that the home is completely framed. However, when you move to the right, you see the gaps. This illustrates the principle of:

closure.

Your 7-month-old niece is just learning to crawl. Your sister has agreed to have her participate in an experiment that incorporates a visual cliff. This experiment is MOST likely studying _____ perception.

depth

Pat turns to look directly at a brightly colored bird her friend has spotted in the garden. Pat is ensuring that the bird's image falls directly on her:

fovea.

Denise wears an extremely bright safety-yellow sweatshirt when she cycles to the gym after dark. The sweatshirt's brightness reflects the _____ of the light it reflects.

high amplitude

When Sanjay recognizes line segments and areas of light and dark as his friend's face at an airport gate, he is demonstrating:

perception.

The way in which you quickly group the individual letters in this test item into separate words BEST illustrates the principle of:

proximity.

Anna is reading her psychology text. The activation of receptors in her retina is called _____. Her interpretation of the stimuli as particular words is called _____.

sensation; perception

Experiencing sudden pain is to _____ as recognizing that you are suffering a heart attack is to _____.

sensation; perception

Marc is driving his 12-year-old car. He notices a sound coming from the engine, which involves _____ processing. He immediately starts thinking that the sound is similar to the sound his car made the last time he had it repaired, which involves _____ processing.

sensation; perception

When psychologists refer to the visible part of the light spectrum, they mean:

the narrow range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum that are visible to the human eye.

Researchers Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk placed infants on the edge of a safe canyon to determine whether crawling infants and newborn animals can perceive depth. This famous experimental setup is known as the _____ cliff.

visual