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PSY 252 MBB (Sensation and Perception)
Exam Questions With Correct And Revised
Answers.

What are the 3 approaches to studying a problem? - answer✔✔-Functional Approach
- Structural Approach
- Error-based Approach

Functional Approach - answer✔✔What if the purpose of ______? (ex: vision) What did it evolve
to do?

Structural Approach - answer✔✔looking at body parts (eyeball, ear, brain)

Error-based Approach - answer✔✔When does it make mistakes? What does this tell us about
how it works? (Ex: vision)

Why is perception important? - answer✔✔- need senses to interact with environment; to know
what's there and what to do with it
- sense things happening to you (esp if painful)
-* to find and avoid predators
-* find a mate
KEY TO SURVIVAL
-* only link to outside world

Myth 1: - answer✔✔Perception is Easy
- feels easy, automatic, and fast

Truth 1: - answer✔✔Perception is hard

What makes perception hard? - answer✔✔1) Retina Image is upside down
2) lose all info every time we blink and move our eyes
3)lose info going from 3D world to 2D image

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4) holes in our vision- blindspot
5) based on a (incomplete) matrix of intensities

Perception uses cues to decode the image and ________ 3D world - answer✔✔reconstruct

Gestalt Principles (cues) of Organization - answer✔✔-similarity
- connectedness
- proximity
- good continuation
- figure-ground


whats the difference between connectedness and good continuation?????

Kanisza Triangle Illusion - answer✔✔- use Gestalt cues to trick vision into seeing a triangle that
isn't there
- Figure-Ground
-triangle=figure, circles= ground
- all of Gestalt principles seen (good continuation, similarity, proximity)

Depth Cues: Pictorial - answer✔✔-Linear Convergence (look at line drawings in notebook)
- reality is two straight lines but retina image is 2 diagonal lines
-relative size; get farther=smaller image
-texture gradient; field of flowers and how the gradient actually looks
- Differences in retina images between Left and Right eyes ; binocular disparities
- don't see as much differences when things are farther (think of holding finger to face and
closing one eye at a time and then looking at professor)

Myth 2: - answer✔✔See everything

Truth 2: - answer✔✔don't see everything
- ex: gorilla video and keys on a counter
3 Physical Constraints of Visual System:

(reason one why we can't see everything) - answer✔✔(need physical structures to see)
1) Focus Light

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