4. Sensation and Perception

Artists use the trick of _____ to give the illusion of depth in a painting.

Randy and Ahmed are both listening to the same music. Randy thinks the music is mellow and relaxing, while Ahmed thinks the music is unpleasant to the ear. Randy and Ahmed appear to have different _____ when it comes to the music they are listening to.

_____ refers to a rapid series of still pictures that seem to be in motion.

The use of preexisting knowledge to organize individual features into a unified whole is known as

Why is it that people who live in Western cultures are more susceptible to the Müller-Lyer illusion than those who do not?

A child may see a dog and say, 'Cat!' because both animals have fur. When corrected, the child may change the scheme for cat to 'furry' and 'pointy ears.' This is an example of

Three-year-old Rosalie loves Kewpie dolls, so she decides to give one to her mother for a birthday present. Rosalie's behaivor demonstrates

Jean Piaget proposed that children become able to deal effectively with abstract concepts during the _____ stage of cognitive development.

In his theories of development, Jean Piaget focused primarily on

In an effort to understand what it means to be a girl, Maria creates the schema that all girls have long hair. When Maria meets Jared, a boy in her preschool who has long hair, Maria becomes confused. Maria's confusion may be due to a process Jean Piaget called

While talking with his Grandma on the phone, little Marcelo suddenly exclaims, 'Oh, look at that pretty red bird!' When his grandmother asks him to describe the bird, Marcelo says, 'Out there, out there! Right there, Grandma!' He finally gets frustrated and hangs up. This is an example of

By the end of Jean Piaget's sensorimotor stage, infants have fully developed a sense of

The visual cliff experiment demonstrated that babies have

In Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, _____ refers to the inability of a young child to mentally reverse an action.

Seeing a dog for the first time, Kenetra—whose family owns a cat—points and says "cat." Jean Piaget would say this is an example of