COGNITION FROM MEMORY TO
CREATIVITY UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION
●● inattentional blindness
Answer: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed
elsewhere.
●● change blindness
Answer: failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of
inattentional blindness.
●● perceptual set
Answer: a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
●● gestalt
Answer: an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our
tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
●● figure-ground
Answer: the organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that
stand out from their surroundings (the ground).
,●● grouping
Answer: the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent
groups.
●● depth perception
Answer: the ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the
images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge
distance.
●● visual cliff
Answer: a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and
young animals.
●● binocular cue
Answer: a depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of
two eyes.
●● convergence
Answer: a cue to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain
combining retinal images.
●● retinal disparity
, Answer: a binocular cue for perceiving depth. By comparing retinal
images from the two eyes, the brain computes distance — the greater the
disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.
●● monocular cue
Answer: a depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective,
available to either eye alone.
●● stroboscopic movement
Answer: an illusion of continuous movement (as in a motion picture)
experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still images.
●● phi phenomenon
Answer: an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent
lights blink on and off in quick succession.
●● autokinetic effect
Answer: the illusory movement of a still spot of light in a dark room.
●● perceptual constancy
Answer: perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color,
brightness, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images
change.
CREATIVITY UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION
●● inattentional blindness
Answer: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed
elsewhere.
●● change blindness
Answer: failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of
inattentional blindness.
●● perceptual set
Answer: a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another.
●● gestalt
Answer: an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our
tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
●● figure-ground
Answer: the organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that
stand out from their surroundings (the ground).
,●● grouping
Answer: the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent
groups.
●● depth perception
Answer: the ability to see objects in three dimensions, although the
images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge
distance.
●● visual cliff
Answer: a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and
young animals.
●● binocular cue
Answer: a depth cue, such as retinal disparity, that depends on the use of
two eyes.
●● convergence
Answer: a cue to nearby objects' distance, enabled by the brain
combining retinal images.
●● retinal disparity
, Answer: a binocular cue for perceiving depth. By comparing retinal
images from the two eyes, the brain computes distance — the greater the
disparity (difference) between the two images, the closer the object.
●● monocular cue
Answer: a depth cue, such as interposition or linear perspective,
available to either eye alone.
●● stroboscopic movement
Answer: an illusion of continuous movement (as in a motion picture)
experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still images.
●● phi phenomenon
Answer: an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent
lights blink on and off in quick succession.
●● autokinetic effect
Answer: the illusory movement of a still spot of light in a dark room.
●● perceptual constancy
Answer: perceiving objects as unchanging (having consistent color,
brightness, shape, and size) even as illumination and retinal images
change.
