Sensation & Perception-Visual

UNIT 3: SENSATION PERCEPTION (6-8%) Another name for sensation is... top-down processing bottom-up processing When our body senses something, the term that describes what our brain does with that information is... bottom-up processing sensation perception adaptation VISUAL PERCEPTION Complete the diagram by filling in the missing labels:retinairislenscorneaoptic nervelightpupil lens cornea pupil iris light retina optic nerve Which of the following places the parts of the eye in the correct order in which light reaches them? cornea, bipolar cells, retina pupil, cornea, ganglion cells cornea, iris, rods iris, retina, cornea lens, optic chiasm, retina DEPTH PERCEPTION Sort the depth cues into the correct category:Binocular cues (require both eyes to make up a 3D image)Monocular cues (form a 3D image from a 2D image) Monocular Cues Interposition (aka occlusion) Relative size Relative clarity Texture gradient Relative height Linear perspective Binocular Cues Retinal disparity Convergence Which monocular depth cue lets us know that the circle is in front of the square and the triangle? relative clarity linear perspective occlusion texture gradient Which depth cue lets us know that the fence is closer than the basketball player? Relative size Relative clarity Convergence Retinal disparity GESTALT PRINCIPLES Match the Gestalt principle with its description. Figure organize info into objects that stand apart from surroundings Closure tendency to mentally fill in gaps Proximity tendency to group things together that appear next to each other Similarity tendency to group things together based off of looks Continuity tendency to mentally form a continuous line The cocktail party effect refers to the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus (your friend's conversation) while filtering out a range of other stimuli (other people's conversations). This is an example of - selective attention inattentional blindness change blindness transduction Senses Match the sense on the left with the correct scientific term on the right. Hearing Audition Sight Vision Smell Olfaction Taste Gustation Touch Tactual sense The weakest stimulus you can detect is known as the - difference threshold absolute threshold just noticeable difference neural threshold Which of the following can influence perceptual set? motivation emotions expectations context all of the above Which Gestalt principle explains why we can see a gorilla and a lion in the image above? sensory perception figure-ground grouping closure