Sensation and Perception
What evidence supports the Gestalt principle of perceptual grouping by similarity?
Objects in close proximity appear grouped together.
Brighter objects appear nearer than dimmer objects.
Similar objects are perceived as grouped together.
Unconnected or related pieces of information are grouped to form a coherent, organized whole.
How would one challenge Hubel and Wiesel's feature detection model?
It doesn't account for color vision.
The model can't explain peripheral vision.
It is based on outdated neuroscientific research.
It fails to consider top-down processes in visual perception.
What is the role of the retinal disparity in depth perception?
It provides cues about distance based on differing views from each eye.
It contributes to our ability to detect motion.
It allows us to perceive color differences.
It helps us adjust focus for objects at varying distances.
What depth cue could be most helpful for an artist aiming to add realism to their painting by indicating far-off mountains appear hazy compared to nearby objects?
Aerial perspective
Relative size
Texture gradient
Linear perspective
In Gestalt psychology, which principle states that objects close together are perceived as part of the same group?
Proximity
Similarity
Continuity
Closure
If research shows that people can recognize faces more accurately when they are right side up rather than upside down, this supports the importance of which aspect in visual perception?
Configural processing
Depth perception
Motion parallax
Feature analysis
When we perceive objects that are nearby as being larger, which monocular cue are we using?
relative size
linear perspective
relative height
interposition

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Which concept explains why people are able to perceive a continuous visual stream despite blinking?
Bottom-up processing
Selective attention
Gestalt grouping
Perceptual constancy
How does the concept of 'figure-ground' in visual perception align with the Gestalt psychologists' principles?
It agrees with Behaviorists who argue that all behaviors are learned through conditioning and reinforcement.
It aligns with Freud's Psychoanalytic theory on unconscious desires driving behavior.
It contradicts the Gestalt view by suggesting that perception is purely about individual sensory elements.
It supports the idea that perception is not just a summation of sensations, but also includes organized wholes.
Which statement provides a valid criticism against Gibson's Direct Theory of Perception?
The theory is based on flawed experimental designs.
It doesn't take into account individual differences in perception.
It underestimates the contribution of cognitive processes in perception.
It overgeneralizes from animal studies to humans without sufficient evidence.