COGNITION AND SENSATION FINAL EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Kinethesis - ✔✔Movement sense
✔✔Vestibular sense - ✔✔sense of balance
✔✔semicircular canals - ✔✔passages in the inner ear associated with maintaining
balance
✔✔sensory interaction - ✔✔one sense may influence another
✔✔embodied cognition - ✔✔the mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive
preferences and social judgments
✔✔selective attention - ✔✔Focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring others.
✔✔Cocktail party effect - ✔✔ability to attend to only one voice among many
✔✔inattentional blindness - ✔✔Cannot perceive objects that are not the focus of
attention
✔✔change blindness - ✔✔failing to notice changes in the environment
Inattentional blindness
✔✔Schema - ✔✔a conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world
✔✔Perceptual set - ✔✔Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
✔✔Gestalt - ✔✔an organized whole
✔✔Figure ground - ✔✔the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out
from their surroundings
✔✔Closure - ✔✔we fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object
✔✔proximity - ✔✔group nearby figures together
✔✔Similarity - ✔✔group figures that are similar
✔✔depth perception - ✔✔the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the
images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance
✔✔Binocular cues - ✔✔A depth cue that depends on two eyes
, ✔✔Convergence - ✔✔Binocular cue to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain
combining retinal images.
✔✔retinal disparity - ✔✔Binocular cue for perceiving depth
✔✔monocular cue - ✔✔cue that requires only one eye
✔✔relative clarity - ✔✔hazy object seen as more distant
✔✔Relative size - ✔✔smaller image is more distant
✔✔linear perspective - ✔✔parallel lines appear to get closer with distance
✔✔Interposition - ✔✔if one object partially blocks our view of another, we perceive it as
closer
✔✔stroboscopic movement - ✔✔a type of apparent movement based on the rapid
succession of still images, as in motion pictures
✔✔phi phenomenon - ✔✔the illusion of movement created by presenting 2 or more
lights blink on and off quickly
✔✔perceptual constancies - ✔✔allow us to recognize familiar stimuli under varying
conditions
✔✔color constancy - ✔✔the ability to recognize colors despite changes in lighting
✔✔perceptual adaptation - ✔✔the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even
inverted visual field
✔✔Cognition - ✔✔the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering,
and communicating
✔✔Metacognition - ✔✔thinking about thinking
✔✔Concept - ✔✔a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
✔✔Prototype - ✔✔a mental image or best example of a category
✔✔Assimilation - ✔✔interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
✔✔acommodation - ✔✔adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new
information
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Kinethesis - ✔✔Movement sense
✔✔Vestibular sense - ✔✔sense of balance
✔✔semicircular canals - ✔✔passages in the inner ear associated with maintaining
balance
✔✔sensory interaction - ✔✔one sense may influence another
✔✔embodied cognition - ✔✔the mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive
preferences and social judgments
✔✔selective attention - ✔✔Focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring others.
✔✔Cocktail party effect - ✔✔ability to attend to only one voice among many
✔✔inattentional blindness - ✔✔Cannot perceive objects that are not the focus of
attention
✔✔change blindness - ✔✔failing to notice changes in the environment
Inattentional blindness
✔✔Schema - ✔✔a conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world
✔✔Perceptual set - ✔✔Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
✔✔Gestalt - ✔✔an organized whole
✔✔Figure ground - ✔✔the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out
from their surroundings
✔✔Closure - ✔✔we fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object
✔✔proximity - ✔✔group nearby figures together
✔✔Similarity - ✔✔group figures that are similar
✔✔depth perception - ✔✔the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the
images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance
✔✔Binocular cues - ✔✔A depth cue that depends on two eyes
, ✔✔Convergence - ✔✔Binocular cue to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain
combining retinal images.
✔✔retinal disparity - ✔✔Binocular cue for perceiving depth
✔✔monocular cue - ✔✔cue that requires only one eye
✔✔relative clarity - ✔✔hazy object seen as more distant
✔✔Relative size - ✔✔smaller image is more distant
✔✔linear perspective - ✔✔parallel lines appear to get closer with distance
✔✔Interposition - ✔✔if one object partially blocks our view of another, we perceive it as
closer
✔✔stroboscopic movement - ✔✔a type of apparent movement based on the rapid
succession of still images, as in motion pictures
✔✔phi phenomenon - ✔✔the illusion of movement created by presenting 2 or more
lights blink on and off quickly
✔✔perceptual constancies - ✔✔allow us to recognize familiar stimuli under varying
conditions
✔✔color constancy - ✔✔the ability to recognize colors despite changes in lighting
✔✔perceptual adaptation - ✔✔the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even
inverted visual field
✔✔Cognition - ✔✔the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering,
and communicating
✔✔Metacognition - ✔✔thinking about thinking
✔✔Concept - ✔✔a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
✔✔Prototype - ✔✔a mental image or best example of a category
✔✔Assimilation - ✔✔interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
✔✔acommodation - ✔✔adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new
information
