Unit 2: Cognition

What is the term for the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?

• A) Perception

• B) Attention

• C) Memory

• D) Cognition

Fill in the blank: ________ is the process of focusing on a particular object in the environment for a certain period of time.

• Attention

• Perception

• Concentration

• Alertness

What is the term for the ability to focus on a single conversation in a noisy environment?

• A) Selective Attention

• B) Inattentional Blindness

• C) Cocktail Party Effect

• D) Change Blindness

Fill in the blank: ________ is the failure to notice a fully visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object.

• Inattentional Blindness

• Selective Attention

• Change Blindness

• Divided Attention

What is the term for the mental process of making sense of sensory information?

• A) Perceptual Set

• B) Schema

• C) Perception

• D) Attention

Fill in the blank: ________ is the tendency to perceive things in a certain way based on past experiences and expectations.

• Perceptual Set

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Confirmation Bias

• Selective Perception

What is the term for the ability to perceive depth and three-dimensional structure?

• Depth Perception

• Visual Cliff

• Monocular Cues

• Binocular Cues

Fill in the blank: ________ are depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes.

• Binocular Cues

• Monocular Cues

• Linear Perspective

• Texture Gradient

What is the term for the visual ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or inverted visual field?

• A) Perceptual Adaptation

• B) Visual Cliff

• C) Depth Perception

• D) Monocular Cues

Fill in the blank: ________ is the phenomenon where a stationary object appears to move due to the movement of surrounding objects.

• Apparent Motion

• Relative Motion

• Illusory Movement

• Perceptual Shifting