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Role of sensation and perception in cognition
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1What is the term used when referring to cognition?
- A'higher' mental processes
- B'physiological' process
- Cprocess by which we 'analyse'
2Two cognitive processes are sensation and perception?
- ATrue
- BFalse
3What is sensation?
- AA physiological process involving sensory receptors detecting and responding to the presence of stimuli. Anything which is experienced through the senses.
- BThe mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory stimuli sent form the senses so it achieves a meaningful form.
4The stages of visual perception are:
- Reception
- Transduction
- Transmission
- Selection
- Organisation
- Interpretation
- ATrue
- BFalse
5What are gestalt principles?
- AFigure ground, closure, similarity and proximity
- BFigure ground, closure, distance and proximity
6Monocular cues include linear perspective, interposition, texture gradient, relative size and height in the visual field.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Visual constancies are our exposure to stimuli
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Psychological factors that effect perception
- APast experiences, context, motivation/emotional state, culture, suggestion and instruction
- BWhether one attends with divided or selective attention
9Selective attention is attending to certain stimuli while ignoring others
- ATrue
- BFalse
10Divided attention is a concentration of mental activity that involves focusing on specific stimuli and ignoring other stimuli
- ATrue
- BFalse
11Muller-Lyer illusion
- AA visual illusion in which two lines of equal length – one capped with inward pointing arrowheads, the other capped with outward pointing arrowheads ar perceived as being different lengths.
- BAn illusion caused by an intentionally disorted room, viewed through a peephole, disrupting perceptual constancies and misleading the viewer to perceive people changing size (Shrinking or growing) as they cross the floor from one corner of the room to the corner diagonally opposite.
- CAn illusion where two horizontal lines of equal length are drawn inside two converging lines, but the line in the narrower section of the converging lines.
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