PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 2025/2026 Exam
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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
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
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Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
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
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
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
