Sensation & Perception

The process of detecting physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals

• transduction

• sensation

• perception

• signal detection

Selecting, organizing, and interpreting our sensations as meaningful objects and events

• transduction

• sensation

• perception

• signal detection

This form of selective attention allows you to hear your friend's voice during a very loud pep assembly.

• Inattentional Blindness

• Signal Detection Theory

• Difference Threshold

• Cocktail Party Effect

Although Frank's mom sleeps through loud thunderstorms, she always wakes up when he gets home past his curfew. What concept would explain this?

• absolute threshold

• signal detection theory

• cocktail party effect

• change blindess

Tonya got her braces off and was disappointed when none of her friends noticed when they went out that night. This is an example of

• absolute threshold

• change blindness

• bottom up processing

• inattentional blindness

Phil's friends were secretly putting rocks in his backpack every day to see how long it would take him to notice that it had gotten heavier. They were testing his

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• sensation

• selective attention

Justin can easily tell the difference between a 1 lb. bag of flour and a 5 lb. bag of flour but cannot tell the difference between 200 lbs and 205 lbs in the weight room. Which of the following explain Alex's inability to detect the heavier weight difference?

• Top down processing

• Weber's Law

• Just noticeable difference

• Signal Detection Theory