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Chapter 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/16/2014

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the tendency to interpret an object as always being the same size regardless of its distance from the viewer is
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size constancy
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research involving illusions:
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provides valuable information about how the sensory receptors and sense organs work
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One's tendency to perceive things in a certain way because of previous experience or expectation is called
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a perceptual set
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in the figure-group relationship, one has a tendency to perceive objects
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as existing on a backgroud
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_________ is the rotation of the two eyes in their sockets to focus on a single object
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convergence
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_________ is the tendency to perceive objects that are close to one another as part of the same grouping.
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proximity
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The use of preexisting knowledge to organize individual features into a unified whole is known as:
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top-down processing
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Which of the following is true about pictorial depth cues?
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they require visual cues from only one eye
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depth perception seems to develop
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in early infancy
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A person will perceive a coin as a circle even if it is held at an angle to appear to the eye as an oval because of:
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shape constancy
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