Across
- 1. constancy, the perception of an object as the same size regardless of the distance from which it is viewed; example someone height
- 4. perception, Sensory information that is detected without our conscious knowledge→unconscious
- 5. adaptation, In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field
- 7. constancy, Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wave-lengths reflected by the object
- 10. trichromatic theory, theory of color vision based on additive color mixing; suggest that the retina contains three types of color receptors, cones: red, green, blue
- 11. The sense of hearing.
- 12. perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface
Down
- 2. Weber, German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology; conducted studies on taste and touch
- 3. Study of paranormal phenomena, including ESP and psychokinesis
- 6. illusion, a phenomenon of human visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light in an otherwise dark or featureless environment appears to move.
- 8. Gestalt principle; states that we group nearby figures as belonging together
- 9. phenomenon, Illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession