Perception overview quiz - AQA GCSE Psychology quiz

The raw physical information detected by the sense organs

The brain's interpretation of incoming sensory information

A mistaken perception caused by an illusion

A type of binocular depth cue used by the eyes

The simple detection of light as it enters and strikes the eye's receptors

The brain's organisation and interpretation of sensory information

A fixed physical property belonging to an object out in the world

Exactly the same process as raw sensation done by the sense organs

Height in plane

Relative size

Retinal disparity

Linear perspective

Binocular

Auditory

Tactile

Monocular

The eyes turning inwards to focus on a near object

Objects placed higher up in view seeming further away

One nearer object partly hiding another behind it

A flat two-dimensional image being interpreted in full depth

Top-down

Bottom-up

Reconstructive

Acoustic

Rich, complete sensory data from the eye

The optic flow in the environment

Past experience and expectation

Retinal disparity between the eyes

Gibson's direct theory of perception

The multi-store model of memory

Size constancy in the visual system

Gregory's constructivist theory

Size constancy being fooled

An ambiguous figure

A fiction in the image

Retinal disparity tricking the eyes

A fiction in the figure

Misinterpreted depth cues

Ambiguity in the figure

Convergence of the two eyes

The very same image can be seen in two different ways

The size of the object is consistently misjudged

We perceive something that is not actually present

Both eyes are needed in order to see the illusion