Psyc230 Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
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Gestalt psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a psychological approach that
emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the
parts
Law of Proximity (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔things that are physically closer
together tend to be grouped together
Law of Common Fate (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔things that are moving in
the same direction appear to be grouped together
Law of Closure (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔when an space is nearly closed,
it tends to be perceived as closed
,Law of Similarity (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔similar objects tend to be
grouped together
Law of Good Continuation (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔continuation exists
even if an object has division
Gibsonian approach - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔direct perception view; images
imprint directly on the retina; perception is already in the stimulus
information-processing approach - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a perspective on
understanding cognition that divides thinking into specific steps and
component processes; perception --> cognition --> motor
computational approach - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔more complicated version of the
information-processing approach
lobe for vision - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔occipital
lobe for touch - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔parietal
lobe for taste and smell - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔frontal
lobe for hearing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔temporal
, microelectrode - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a very fine electrode, generally used to
record activity of individual neurons
neuropsychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔how brain damage alters behavior
electroencephalography (EEG) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔recording of the electrical
activity of the brain over time
fMRI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔recording of where neurons excite in the brain
perception - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔conscious idea of the world; meaningful
sensation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔registration of a physical stimulus
transduction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the transforming of stimulus energies into
neural impulses our brains can perceive
phenomenology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔internal experience of a person
Aristotle illusion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔brain senses two objects when really only
one is touching
motion aftereffect (Aristotle) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a nonmoving object appears
in motion after focusing on an object in motion
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Questions and Answers | A+ Score
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Gestalt psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a psychological approach that
emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the
parts
Law of Proximity (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔things that are physically closer
together tend to be grouped together
Law of Common Fate (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔things that are moving in
the same direction appear to be grouped together
Law of Closure (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔when an space is nearly closed,
it tends to be perceived as closed
,Law of Similarity (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔similar objects tend to be
grouped together
Law of Good Continuation (Gestalt) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔continuation exists
even if an object has division
Gibsonian approach - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔direct perception view; images
imprint directly on the retina; perception is already in the stimulus
information-processing approach - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a perspective on
understanding cognition that divides thinking into specific steps and
component processes; perception --> cognition --> motor
computational approach - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔more complicated version of the
information-processing approach
lobe for vision - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔occipital
lobe for touch - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔parietal
lobe for taste and smell - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔frontal
lobe for hearing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔temporal
, microelectrode - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a very fine electrode, generally used to
record activity of individual neurons
neuropsychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔how brain damage alters behavior
electroencephalography (EEG) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔recording of the electrical
activity of the brain over time
fMRI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔recording of where neurons excite in the brain
perception - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔conscious idea of the world; meaningful
sensation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔registration of a physical stimulus
transduction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the transforming of stimulus energies into
neural impulses our brains can perceive
phenomenology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔internal experience of a person
Aristotle illusion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔brain senses two objects when really only
one is touching
motion aftereffect (Aristotle) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a nonmoving object appears
in motion after focusing on an object in motion
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
