The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called _________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The tendency to perceive continuous patterns in stimuli is known as _________________?

   A. good continuation
   B. closure
   C. proximity
   D. None of these

2. The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?

   A. concentrated attending
   B. stimulus focusing
   C. selective attention
   D. structured perceiving

3. The efficiency of memory can be increased if we organize information so that the amount of information in each unit increases while the number of separate units decreases. This process is called _________________?

   A. chunking
   B. rehearsal
   C. encoding
   D. retrieval

4. Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?

   A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
   B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
   C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
   D. Both (a) and (c)

5. A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called _________________ memory?

   A. iconic
   B. implicit
   C. echoic
   D. flashbulb

6. The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as _________________?

   A. Weber’s law
   B. the opponent-process theory
   C. feature detection
   D. the difference threshold

7. In order to summarize or organize a series of observations in some meaningful way, psychologists may develop:

   A. hypotheses
   B. experiments
   C. surveys
   D. theories

8. Significant alternation over time in behavior patterns and culture, including norms and value is called:

   A. Social mobility
   B. Social change
   C. Control theory
   D. None of these

9. The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?

   A. shaping
   B. acquisition
   C. discrimination
   D. generalization

10. The illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession is called:

    A. convergence
    B. retinal disparity
    C. motion parallax
    D. the phi phenomenon