Sensation/Perception Quiz

When we rely on prior experience in a similar environment to help make meaning of sensory information, we are using :

• Bottom up processing

• Top down processing

• simultaneous processing

• auditory processing

Weber's law would be applicable in a student's understanding of

• Absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• sensory adaptation

• sensory interaction

_____ is the process of converting outside stimuli into neural activity

• Transduction

• Habituation

• Saturation

• Reception

Leonardo is sitting right next to his grandparents. Leonardo smelled the dirty diaper his little sister had 5 minutes before his grandparents did. Leonardo must have a lower _____ for dirty diaper odors than his grandparents have.

• middle threshold

• signal detection threshold

• absolute threshold

• subliminal threshold

Harriet got out of bed and put on her running shoes. She felt the shoes when she put them on. By the time she finished her morning run, Harriet stopped feeling the shoes on her feet. This is partially due to

• transduction

• rods

• transadaptation

• sensory adaption

Stereotypes can influence the way we think about a specific group of people. Which of the following terms is most similar to a stereotype?

• Feature detectors

• Perceptual set

• relative clarity

• stereogram

What are the images that occur when a visual sensation persists for a brief time, even after the original stimuli are removed?

• Before images

• Current images

• Color Images

• Afterimages

Cones are to _______________ vision as rods are to _______________ vision

• inverted; extroverted

• extroverted; inverted

• black and white; color

• color; black and white

Items that look alike are grouped together. Which Gestalt principle does this demonstrate?

• Figure ground

• Proximity

• Similarity

• Closure

A person appears to get smaller as he or she walks away from you, yet your brain knows that the height of the person has not changed. Which type of constancy does this demonstrate?

• Size

• Shape

• Brightness

• Color