Sensation and Perception

What is the name for an inability to see and recognise faces?

• Prosopagnosia

• Achromatopsia

• auditory verbal agnosia

• Aphasia

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Sensation is a __________ process

• top-down

• bottom-up

• parallel

• diagonal

The absolute threshold of sensation requires that a stimulation be noticed...

• 10 percent of the time

• 50 percent of the time

• 90 percent of the time

• 100 percent of the time

When tired parents only hear their baby's voice but they don't hear a loud train, this is an example of...

• Parallel Processing

• Trichromatic theory

• Weber's law

• Signal detection theory

Sensory adaptation is when

• People are always annoyed by certain noises or stimulations

• People can't hear noises or stimulations

• People get used to specific noises and stimulations

• People always experience the same noises and stimulations differently

Weber's Law, about how we perceive the differences between things, says that we only notice differences on

• A linear scale

• A logarithmic scale

• An exponential scale

• An everyday scale

The parts of our eye that detect colours is

• Cones

• Rods

• Ganglion cells

• Optic nerves

The part of the brain that processes visual information is the...

• Parietal Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Frontal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

People who are Dichromatic can't

• See any colours

• Can't distinguish between blue and purple

• Can't distinguish between black and grey

• Can't distinguish between red and green

The Rubin's Vase shows us that people..

• Always see faces

• Are definitely introverted if they see vases

• Can only look at one foregrounded image at a time

• Have difficulty seeing images without colour

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

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CCSS.RL.9-10.7