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Year 10 Psychology
Semester 2 exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Altruism | A pro-social behaviour which involves selflessness and helping others |
| Anti-social behaviour | Behaviour that is harmful to others and the community |
| Attitude | A learnt and stable evaluation of a person or object |
| Attributions | Inferences we make about the causes of events or behaviours |
| Bullying | Behaviour were an individual or group of people intentionally and repeatedly cause harm to another person or persons |
| Bystander effect | A bystander is more likely to help if they're alone or see the situation as an emergancy |
| Bystander intervention | The act if a person voluntarily helping someone else |
| Camouflage | The figure-ground is used to 'blend' the figure against the background |
| Carpentered world hypothesis | Our familiarity of of right angles and straight lines informs our interpretation of linear depth cues |
| Closure | When an object is perceived as being whole, despite not being complete |
| Colour intensity | The brightness or strength of colour can impact our perception of flavour |
| Depth cues | Processes that enable interpretation of a 3D scene from a 2D image on the retina |
| Depth perception | The ability to accurately judge 3D space and distance using cues from the environment |
| Discrimination | Prejudice expressed through behaviour |
| Explicit attitudes | Attitudes that individuals are open about and will align with their behaviour |
| Figure-Ground | The image is organised into a the object of attention (figure) and inattention (ground) |
| Gestalt principles of visual perception | These principles are used to interpret sensory information |
| Height in the visual field | Shows depth by portraying objects as close or far away in the horizon |
| Illusion | Perception differs from reality |
| Implicit attitudes | Involuntary, unconscious attitudes that people are unaware that they hold, even though it might influence behaviour |
| Media | The mainstream form of communication in society, including television radio social media and new sites |
| Mood | An emotional state that can effect our perceptions |
| Perception | The processes whereby the brain organises and interprets sensory information |
| Perceptual consistencies | The ability to recognise a consistant height and size of an object despite it not being displayed on the retina |
| Perceptual set | The predisposition to attend to certain aspects of the stimuli and interpret them in a specific way |
| Person perception | Developing an impression of another person using the information we can initially gather |
| Pictorial depth cue | A monocular depth cue that artist use to create 3D images on a 2D surface |
| Prejudice | The unfavorable attitude towards a group of people |
| Proximity | The individual parts of a stimulus pattern are close together, allowing them to be grouped as one |
| Reciprocity principle | The social expectation that you will help someone if help if offered in return |
| Relative size | A depth cue based on the idea that if the image is taking up less space on the retina then it is further away |
| Sensation | The process where out sensory organs receive stimuli from the environment |
| Shape consistency | The idea that on object will maintain the same shape even if the whole object isn't visible on the retina |
| Similarity | The idea that elements with similar appearance belong to the same group |
| Size consistency | The idea that on object will maintain the same size even if the object is taking up more or less space in the visual field |
| Stereotype | The generalisation of people within the same group |
| Food Texture | The way food or drinks feels or looks |
| Texture gradient | The texture in the foreground in seen in more detail than the texture in the background or on the horizon |
| Tri Component attitude model | Attitude consist of cognitive, affective and behavioural components |
| Visual Illusion | A figure structured so that the perception will consistently differ from the objective reality |
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