Psych Chap. 5

Which field of psychology includes the following concepts: figure-ground relationship, law of continuity, and principle of closure?

Gestalt

What has research shown about processing subliminal messages?

In laboratory settings, people can process and respond to information outside of their awareness.

How does the term Gestalt relate to the psychological study of perception?

Perception involves more than simply combining sensory stimuli; therefore, perception is studied as Gestalt.

What has research by Goolkasian & Woodbury (2010) demonstrated about pattern perception?

Those who are given verbal priming produce a biased interpretation of complex ambiguous figures.

Read the following two sentences. (1) Gre eng rass gr ow son themoun tain. (2) Green grass grows on the mountain. How does the principle of proximity explain why the second sentence makes sense immediately, but the first sentence does not?

We group letters of a given word together because there are no spaces between the letters, and we perceive words because there are spaces between each word.

Sariah enters a room with several chirping crickets in it. Upon first entering the room, Sariah can hear the chirping; however, as she begins to talk to her friends, she is no longer aware of the chirping even though it is still there. The fact that Sariah no longer perceives the chirping sound demonstrates sensory ________.

adaptation

Kimya stares at a bright light and then looks away. After she looks away, she perceives a spot. What is this spot?

afterimage

________ disparity refers to the slightly different view of the world that each eye receives.

binocular

Light waves are transmitted across the ________ and enter the eye through the ________.

cornea; pupil

Hertz is a measure of ________.

frequency

________ is another term for the malleus.

hammer

The ________is also known as the anvil.

incus

Which of the following describes the difference in stimuli required to detect a difference between the stimuli?

just noticeable

At the point of the optic chiasm, information from the right visual field (which comes from both eyes) is sent to the ________ side of the brain, and information from the left visual field is sent to the ________ side of the brain.

left; right

Within the visible spectrum, our experience of red is associated with ________.

longer wavelengths

Longer wavelengths will have ________ frequencies, and shorter wavelengths will have ________ frequencies.

lower; higher

Which nerve carries visual information from the retina to the brain?

optic

What allows Nancy to run without watching her feet and hit a baseball without focusing on the bat?

proprioception

Due to his sense of ________, Abraham knows he is cold when he is outside during a blizzard, and he knows he is hot after he comes inside and eats soup by the fire.

thermoception

In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, what other taste groupings do we possess?

umami and fat content