AP Pysch 8th ed.
Chapter 6:Perception Part 1
While you read chapter 7, take notes for the following questions.
1. Describe how the
process of perception is
directed and limited by
selective attention.
Inattentional
Blindness
Change blindness
Change deafness
Choice blindness
2. Explain how illusions
help us to understand
some of the ways we
organize stimuli into
meaningful perceptions.
Visual capture
3. Discuss Gestalt
psychology’s
contribution to our
understanding of
perception.
Gestalt
Name: ___________________
4. Explain the figureground relationship and
identify principles of
perceptual grouping to
form perception.
Figure
Ground
Gestalt principles of
grouping
5. Discuss research on
depth perception
involving the use of the
visual cliff.
depth perception
visual cliff
6. Describe the use of
binocular cues and
explain how they help
the brain to compute
distance.
BINOCULAR CUES:
Retinal disparity
Convergence
7. Explain how
monocular cues differ
from binocular cues.
Describe several
monocular cues for
perceiving depth.
MONOCULAR
CUES:
Relative size
Interposition
Relative clarity
Texture gradient
Relative height
Relative motion
Linear perspective
Relative brightness
Psychology 12/AP
Chapter 6:Perception Part 2
While you read chapter 7, take notes for the following questions.
1. State the basic
assumptions we make in
our perception of
movement and explain
how these perceptions
can be misleading.
Stroboscopic
movement
Phi phenomenon
2. Explain the
importance of
perceptual constancy
show how they operate
in visual illusions.
Perceptual constancy
Name: ___________________
3. Describe the shape
and size constancies and
explain how our
expectations about
perceived size and
distance contribute so
some visual illusions.
Shape constancy
Size constancy
Moon illusion
Muller-Lyer illusion
Distorted room illusion
4. Discuss lightness
constancy and its
similarity to color
constancy.
5. Describe the
contribution of restoredvision and sensory
deprivation research in
our understanding of the
nature-nurture interplay
and in our perceptions.
Emanuel Kant
John Locke
Critical period
6. Explain what the use
of distorting goggles
indicates regarding the
adaptability of
perception.
7. Define perceptual set
and explain how it
influences what we do
and do not perceive.
Perceptual set
Schemas
8. Explain why the same
stimulus can evoke
different perceptions in
different contexts.
9. Describe the role
human factors
psychologists play in
creating user-friendly
machines and work
settings.
Human factors
psychologists
10. Identify the three
most testable forms of
ESP.
Telepathy
Clairvoyance
Precognition
11. State the claims of
ESP and explain why
most research
psychologists remain
skeptical.
Parapsychologists
Extrasensory
perception (ESP)
Ganzfeld procedure