PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
Perception - (answer) the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to
recognize meaningful objects and events
Are there really 5 senses? - (answer) No, there are from 7-12 different senses
neural transduction - (answer) receptors, transduction and neural response
Sensation - (answer) activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in the environment (physical
stimulus---->neural signal)
Phenomenology - (answer) internal experience that everyone has of the external world around them
Aristotle and the Five senses - (answer) Aristotle said there were five senses - smell, sight, touch, taste,
and hearing - but science suggests there are many more than that
Thomas Young - (answer) showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted, color recptors
Johannes Mueller - (answer) doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct senses)
Von Helmholtz - (answer) perception is constructed from both senses and cognitive processes,
unconscious inference, three basic color receptors
Hering - (answer) colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing colors (four primary colors, not
three)
Weber's Law - (answer) the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is based on a proportion of
the original stimulus rather than on a fixed amount of difference
Fechner - (answer) father of psychophysics, the study of the relation between physical stimuli and the
perception they elicit
, PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
Fechner's Law - (answer) sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity
Gestalt Psychology - (answer) the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Law of Proximity (Gestalt) - (answer) elements close to one another tend to be perceived as a unit
Law of Common Fate (Gestalt) - (answer) visual elements that move in the same speed and/or
direction are parts of a single stimulus
law of closure (gestalt) - (answer) we tend to see complete figures even when part of the information is
missing
Law of Similarity (Gestalt) - (answer) objects that are similar tend to be grouped together
Law of Good Continuation (Gestalt) - (answer) elements that appear to follow the same pathway tend
to be grouped together
Gibson and Direct Perception - (answer) sensation is perception, what you see is what you get
Information Processing Approach - (answer) a perspective on understanding cognition that divides
thinking into specific steps and component processes (LIKE A COMPUTER)
computational approach - (answer) Describes the problem the system is trying to solve and the
constraints it uses in order to solve it, most abstract
microelectrode - (answer) a very fine electrode, generally used to record activity of individual neurons
Neurophysiology - (answer) explains the workings of the nervous system
DETAILED ANSWERS
Perception - (answer) the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to
recognize meaningful objects and events
Are there really 5 senses? - (answer) No, there are from 7-12 different senses
neural transduction - (answer) receptors, transduction and neural response
Sensation - (answer) activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in the environment (physical
stimulus---->neural signal)
Phenomenology - (answer) internal experience that everyone has of the external world around them
Aristotle and the Five senses - (answer) Aristotle said there were five senses - smell, sight, touch, taste,
and hearing - but science suggests there are many more than that
Thomas Young - (answer) showed that light, like waves, could be diffracted, color recptors
Johannes Mueller - (answer) doctrine of specific nerve energies (distinct senses)
Von Helmholtz - (answer) perception is constructed from both senses and cognitive processes,
unconscious inference, three basic color receptors
Hering - (answer) colors are perceived through 2 pairs of opposing colors (four primary colors, not
three)
Weber's Law - (answer) the just noticeable difference between two stimuli is based on a proportion of
the original stimulus rather than on a fixed amount of difference
Fechner - (answer) father of psychophysics, the study of the relation between physical stimuli and the
perception they elicit
, PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
Fechner's Law - (answer) sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity
Gestalt Psychology - (answer) the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Law of Proximity (Gestalt) - (answer) elements close to one another tend to be perceived as a unit
Law of Common Fate (Gestalt) - (answer) visual elements that move in the same speed and/or
direction are parts of a single stimulus
law of closure (gestalt) - (answer) we tend to see complete figures even when part of the information is
missing
Law of Similarity (Gestalt) - (answer) objects that are similar tend to be grouped together
Law of Good Continuation (Gestalt) - (answer) elements that appear to follow the same pathway tend
to be grouped together
Gibson and Direct Perception - (answer) sensation is perception, what you see is what you get
Information Processing Approach - (answer) a perspective on understanding cognition that divides
thinking into specific steps and component processes (LIKE A COMPUTER)
computational approach - (answer) Describes the problem the system is trying to solve and the
constraints it uses in order to solve it, most abstract
microelectrode - (answer) a very fine electrode, generally used to record activity of individual neurons
Neurophysiology - (answer) explains the workings of the nervous system
