Psych test 2

When the way you perceive a stimulus does not match its physical reality, you are perceiving a(n) __________.

• Illustration

• Perception

• Illusion

• Sensation

__________ is the process by which the nervous system converts an external stimulus (such as sound waves or light energy) into electrical signals within neurons.

• Transubstantiation

• Transduction

• Mollification

• Transmorgrification

Which theory addresses signal-to-noise ratio as a fundamental element of understanding perception?

• Absolute threshold theory

• Psychophysics

• Signal detection theory

• Weber's law

To test his theory that attention passes through a mental filter that gives priority to important information, Donald Broadbent used __________, an experimental technique in which listeners hear different messages in each ear.

• double-blind synesthesia

• dichotic listening

• Change deafness

• Filter Theory

The question of how we combine cues of shape, motion, color, and depth over time into meaningful total picture is called__________

• The blinding problem

• Inattentional blindness

• Agnosia

• Multiple perception

To see as we do, the human eye responds to a narrow range of light's wavelengths known as__________.

• The human visible spectrum

• The visual perception field

• Ultraviolet and infrared

• Electromagnetic energy

The circular hole through which light enters the eye is called the__________

• Cornea

• Lens

• Retina

• Pupil

We perceive the _______ of an object based on the intensity of the light that is reflected to our eyes

• Wavelength

• Pigment

• Brightness

• Hue

There is an area right in front of your eyes all the time that you are unable to notice and cannot see. This region of the retina has no rods or sense receptors to capture light, yet your brain simply fills in the area based on what each eye does see. This is called __________.

• Deficiency vision

• The absence region

• A blind spot

• Inattentional blindness

A deficit in seeing objects, such as being unable to name or identify an object despite being able to note its shape or color is called ____

• Visual Agnosia

• Blindness

• Scleraderma

• Sightblindness