Perception Quiz

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Which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?

analytic introspection

Experience resulting from stimulation of the senses and information from the senses that can help guide our actions is called

perception

Stevie Allison enjoys playing football for his high school team. Stevie was not allowed to play football for three games when he got in a fight with a soccer player after school. Taking away the privilege of football to decrease fighting is an example of

negative punishment

People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the

oblique effect

According to the behaviorists, only the study of_______should be the emphasis of the science of psychology.

observable behavior

John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of

observable behavior

Speech segmentation is defined as

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words

Behaviorists believe that the presentation of increases the frequency of behavior.

positive reinforcers

__________ procedures cause behaviors to decrease in probability or become less likely.

punishment

The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina, changing the image into electrical signals, and neural processing is an example of________processing.

botom-up

The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called

cognitive psychology

Using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of

cognitive psychology

What is an operant conditioning procedure that involves reinforcing the last of a specific number of responses

fixed ratio

You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of

good continuation

If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented alone, this would be an example of processing.

top-down

According to your textbook, perception goes beyond the simple receipt of sensory information. It is involved in many different cognitive skills. Which of the following is not one of those skills as noted by the chapter?

Experiencing neuromodulation

You are at a parade where there are a number of marching bands. You perceive the bands that are all in the same uniforms as being grouped together. The red uniforms are one band, the green uniforms another, and so forth. You have this perceptual experience because of the law of

similarity

In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles?

simplicity

What is an operant schedule in which the individual receives one reinforcement for several responses; the number of responses required varies but averages out to the ratio value?

variable ratio

Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following examples?

when someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception


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