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