California State University, San Marcos PSYCHOLOGY PSYC 392Midterm_1_Questions

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Which formal, mathematical approach to modeling perception uses conditional probabilities and prior probabilities to determine whether a hypothesis is true, given a certain set of observations? Ba... yes theory The imaginary circle in the figure above is known as? The horopter Gestalt psychologists emphasize that? The perceptual whole is greater than the sum of the parts A(n) _______ is a visual image seen after the stimulus has been removed. Afterimage According to the opponent color theory, the perception of color is based on the output of ______ cones, each of them an opponency between _____ colors. three; two The size-distance scaling equation explains the Ames Room illusion because? We perceive the two people in the room to be different sizes because they are perceived to be the same distance away and their retinal image size is different Turning the two eyes inward to place the two images of a feature in the world on corresponding locations in the two retinal images is known as? Convergence Wundt: ______ :: Wertheimer: ______ structuralism; Gestalt psychology The problem of determining which bit of the image in the left eye should be matched with which bit of image in the right eye is known as? Correspondence problem Which Gestalt grouping principle states that elements moving in the same direction should be grouped together? Common fate The scene pictures above demonstrates the ____ depth cue. Motion parallax The difference between crossed disparity and uncrossed disparity is that crossed disparity involves objects that are _____ the plane of fixation, while uncrossed disparity In front of; behind [Show More]

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