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Psychology Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sentations | Stimulations of sensory receptors and transfer to the central nervous system |
| Perception | Progress through which we interpret what we sense (giving meaning to "raw data" |
| Difference Thresholds | The minimum amount of difference that can be detected between stimuli |
| Absolute Thresholds | weakest amount of stimulus that we can sense |
| Convergent | simple problems, limited answers, uses available facts - Everyday tasks, remote memory, etc. |
| Divergent | many possible answers but usually only one is best |
| Metacognition | thinking about thinking |
| Aspects of metacognition | Knowledge and Experience |
| Uses of Metacognition | Plan, Monitor, Evaluate |
| Trial and Error | used when we have no idea of the correct answer |
| Difference reduction | identify the end goal, where we are in relation to it, and how to get closer to it |
| Means-end Analysis | problem broken into parts and solved accordingly - more advanced than difference reduction often |
| Working backwards | work from goal to solution |
| Analogies | Use previous solutions |
| Pressure, Temperature, and Pain | Perception of touch |
| Gate-Control Theory | How the sensation of pain works - provides a simulation of how pain signals travel along the spinal cord |
| 5 basic tastes | sweet, sour, salty, bitter and brothy |
| What is the sense of smell? | Chemical Sense |
| Constancy | The tendency to interpret an object as being constant |
| Size Constancy | tendency to interpret an object as always being the same size regardless of the distance from the viewer |
| Shape Constancy | is why a person still perceives a coin as a circle even if it is held at an angle - makes it appear to be an oval to the retina |
| Figure-Ground | the tendency to perceive objects or figures as existing on a background - black words on a printed paper are seen as the "figure" and the white sheet as the "background" |
| Proximity | the tendency to perceive objects that are close to one another as part of the same grouping, a principal call proximity or nearness |
| Similarity | the tendency to perceive things that look similar as being part of the same group - member of a sports teams uniforms are the same allowing people to view them as a group |
| Continuity | the tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken up pattern - movies are just many pictures put together at a fast rate |
| Contiguity | the tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related - Ventriloquists make vocalizations without appearing to be talking and move the dummy's mouth instead. |
| Closure | the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete - Artist give the impression of an entire face with a few strokes and viewers fill in the details |
| Common region | the tendency is to perceive objects that are in a common area or region as being in a group - |
| Color Blindness | is caused by defective cones in the retina of the eye and as a more general term - people with it have two types of cones working and can see many colors |
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