Perception Trivia

How would you describe your level of engagement with this week's course materials?

• I completed this week's module in its entirety and I feel quite confident about my progress.

• I completed this week's module in its entirety and I feel moderately ok about my progress.

• I completed most of this week's module and I feel confident or ok in my progress thus far.

• I completed some of this week's module and I plan on catching up soon.

• I have not yet begun this week's module and I will reachout to Prof. Rabelo soon if I need help catching up.

Perception refers to the objective process by which people form an accurate portrait of their environments.

• True

• False

The process by which people decide which objects/inputs they will pay attention to at any given time is known as _________ .

• Perceptual Organization

• Perceptual Selectivity

• Internal Self-Awareness

• External Self-Awareness

External influences [e.g., physical & dynamic properties] rarely affect the process of perceptual selectivity.

• True

• False

Performance distorts perceptions of time. For example, tasks feel like they take longer when we are failing [vs. succeeding]

• True

• False

Your former manager, L., had an unfair bias against job candidates who graduated from Cal, leading him to overlook major flaws during interviews with Cal grads. L's behavior is an example of the:

• cognitive structure paradox

• horn effect

• halo effect

• perceptual defense

Believing that your coworker was promoted due to good luck (vs. stellar performance) is an example of an _______ .

• internal perceptual bias

• external perceptual bias

• internal attribution

• external attribution

Neurodivergent individuals tend to process cognitive and sensory information in remarkably similar ways.

• True

• False

Some ND people appear to process information more slowly, in part because they are accessing and processing significantly more input than NT people do.

• True

• False

"Stimming" refers to sensory-seeking activities that are sometimes calming, such as fidgeting, flapping arms, repeating phrases, bouncing legs, smelling nice candles, etc.

• True

• False