Sensation & Perception Assessment

As she looks at a face, Jamie is able to recognize it as the face of her mother. Which of the following explains why she can recognize her mother’s face?

• Selective attention

• Transduction

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Signal detection theory

Charles and his wife are at a loud baseball game, yet are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?

• Bottom-up processing

• Weber's law

• The cocktail party effect

• Sensory adaptation

As Jeff reads his psychology textbook he is able to convert the light waves into signals that his brain can interpret due to the concept of

• transduction

• perception

• priming

• signal detection theory

• threshold

Natalia is washing her hands, and she adjusts the faucet handle until the water feels just slightly hotter than it did before. Natalia's adjustment until she feels the change in temperature is an example of

• a subliminal stimulus

• an absolute threshold

• perceptual constancy

• a difference threshold

• signal detection

Tyshane went swimming with friends who did not want to get into the pool because the water felt cold. Tyshane jumped in and after a few minutes declared, "It was cold when I first got in, but now it's fine. Come on in!" Tyshane's body became accustomed to the water temperature due to

• priming

• sensory adaptation

• selective attention

• absolute threshold

Which of the following structures helps you most in detecting the color of your friend's shirt?

• Cones

• Rods

• Fovea

• Cornea

If you scratch your eye, which structure are you most likely to damage?

• Fovea

• Cones

• Iris

• Cornea

A teacher used distortion goggles, which shifted the wearer's gaze 20 degrees, to demonstrate an altered perception. A student wearing the goggles initially bumped into numerous desks and chairs while walking around, but after 30 minutes of wearing the goggles was able to smoothly avoid obstacles, illustrating the concept of

• Visual Interpretation

• Sensory Adaptation

• Perceptual Adaptation

• Visual Light Spectrum

Narmeen is viewing the board in the classroom. She knows that the board is located far away because the view from her left eye is slightly different than the view from her right eye. Her ability to judge the distance of the board is due to which depth cue?

• Relative Size

• Retinal Disparity

• Linear Perspective

• Relative Motion