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PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 Questions and
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Q: Perception
Ans: the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us
to recognize meaningful objects and events
Q: Are there really 5 senses?
Ans: No, there are from 7-12 different senses
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Q: neural transduction
Ans: receptors, transduction and neural response
Q: Sensation
Ans: activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in the environment
(physical stimulus---->neural signal)
Q: Phenomenology
Ans: internal experience that everyone has of the external world around them
Q: Aristotle and the Five senses
Ans: Aristotle said there were five senses - smell, sight, touch, taste, and hearing
- but science suggests there are many more than that
Q: Thomas Young
Ans: showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted, color recptors
Q: Johannes Mueller
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Ans: doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct senses)
Q: Von Helmholtz
Ans: perception is constructed from both senses and cognitive processes,
unconscious inference, three basic color receptors
Q: Hering
Ans: colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing colors (four primary
colors, not three)
Q: Weber's Law
Ans: the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is based on a proportion
of the original stimulus rather than on a fixed amount of difference
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Q: Fechner
Ans: father of psychophysics, the study of the relation between physical stimuli
and the perception they elicit
Q: Fechner's Law
Ans: sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity
Q: Gestalt Psychology
Ans: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Q: Law of Proximity (Gestalt)
Ans: elements close to one another tend to be perceived as a unit
Q: Law of Common Fate (Gestalt)
Ans: visual elements that move in the same speed and/or direction are parts of a
single stimulus
Q: law of closure (gestalt)
PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 Questions and
Answers 100% Correct Answers Already
Graded A+
Q: Perception
Ans: the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us
to recognize meaningful objects and events
Q: Are there really 5 senses?
Ans: No, there are from 7-12 different senses
Exampromax - Stuvia US
Q: neural transduction
Ans: receptors, transduction and neural response
Q: Sensation
Ans: activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in the environment
(physical stimulus---->neural signal)
Q: Phenomenology
Ans: internal experience that everyone has of the external world around them
Q: Aristotle and the Five senses
Ans: Aristotle said there were five senses - smell, sight, touch, taste, and hearing
- but science suggests there are many more than that
Q: Thomas Young
Ans: showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted, color recptors
Q: Johannes Mueller
, 2 Exampromax - Stuvia US
Ans: doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct senses)
Q: Von Helmholtz
Ans: perception is constructed from both senses and cognitive processes,
unconscious inference, three basic color receptors
Q: Hering
Ans: colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing colors (four primary
colors, not three)
Q: Weber's Law
Ans: the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is based on a proportion
of the original stimulus rather than on a fixed amount of difference
Exampromax - Stuvia US
Q: Fechner
Ans: father of psychophysics, the study of the relation between physical stimuli
and the perception they elicit
Q: Fechner's Law
Ans: sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity
Q: Gestalt Psychology
Ans: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Q: Law of Proximity (Gestalt)
Ans: elements close to one another tend to be perceived as a unit
Q: Law of Common Fate (Gestalt)
Ans: visual elements that move in the same speed and/or direction are parts of a
single stimulus
Q: law of closure (gestalt)
