Sensation and Perception Quick Check

Which is the best explanation of sensation?

• How we process information

• How we interpret information

• How we take in information

• How we perceive information

Which is the best explanation of perception?

• How we gain our senses

• How we detect changes

• How we are activated by a stimulus

• How we process information

What is the function of the vestibular system?

• To provide a sense of balance

• To sense objects touching the skin

• To visualize colors and patterns

• To detect odors

What is the purpose of kinesthesis?

• Allows for people to be able to detect differences in temperatures

• Allows for a sense of body movements

• Allows for our auditory system to detect different frequencies

• Allows for our sense of taste to determine if items are poisonous

What is meant by selective attention?

• Being fully aware of all stimuli around you at all times

• Decreasing our autonomic nervous system responses for survival

• Providing the five senses to perceive the environment as a whole

• Limiting our focus on a specific aspect of our environment

Which is true about absolute threshold?

• It identifies the strongest amount of stimuli needed to negatively impact a person.

• All living things have the same absolute threshold for all of their senses.

• All individuals have the same absolute threshold and can be detected by them 75% of the time.

• It detects the weakest amount of a stimulus required to produce a sensation.

Which is true about difference threshold?

• It is easier for a person to sense a small change in stimulus than a large change.

• People are unable to detect changes of stimuli in any environment.

• It identifies the smallest change to the physical stimulus that people are aware of about 50% of the time.

• People rarely identify changes to stimuli when significant changes are made to the stimuli.

Which is true about subliminal threshold?

• Governments support the use of them in advertising.

• Messages are typically given through kinesthetic and tactile ways.

• They are at a level where participants are not aware of the stimulus.

• They are highly effective.

What is meant by sensory adaptation?

• There is a reduction of sensitivity to a stimulus after constant exposure to it.

• Our sensations and perceptions remain the same with constant stimulus.

• Senses do not respond to an increase or decrease of a stimuli.

• While the stimulus changes, our perception of the stimulus remains the same.

When playing basketball after school today, you were able to catch a pass and score a layup. What is is being utilized?

• Sensory neurons

• Autonomic system

• Absolute threshold

• Kinesthetic sense