Sensation and Perception: Sensation

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12th Grade
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James Dudley
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What occurs anytime that a stimulus activates one of your receptors?
sensation
perception
psychophysics
sensory adaptoin
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences, such as an optical illusion may cause you to question truth, is called:
sensation
perception
psychophysics
signal-detection
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Psychophysics is:
anytime a stimulus activates one of your receptors
the organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences
the study of the relationship between the senses and the physical stimuli that causes them
the responsiveness of sense to changes to new events and changes in environments
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The weakest amount of a stimulus required to produce sensation is:
sensory adaption
signal-detection theory
difference threshold
absolute threshold
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An example of absolute threshold is
being able to hear a ticking clock about 20 feet away
gradually increasing light until a person can detect that it’s brighter
perceiving objects at difference sizes based upon distance
perceiving lines at the same length through an optical illusion
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The minimum amount of difference a person can detect between two stimuli 50% of the time is
absolute threshold
difference threshold
JND
signal-detection theory
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An example of difference threshold is:
hearing a clock ticking 20 feet away
gradually increasing light until a person can detect that it’s brighter
perceiving objects at different distances at different sizes
perceiving the length of lines based upon a starting point
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