Psych 101. (learning)

You help your friend look for her contact lens on her white kitchen floor. This is an example of:

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• murphy's law

• an impossible task

When perception is guided by higher-level knowledge, experience, expectations, and motivations

• bottom up processing

• webbers law

• top down processing

• transduction

A father takes his children to the playground. During the visit, a child starts to cry. Without looking, the father can tell that it is not his child’s cry.

This is an example of:

• murphy's law

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• a good father

This has been studied most extensively and is the most important sense for humans.

• vision

• smell

• touch

• tase

Mindy picks up her purse and immediately fears that she left her wallet someplace. Based on this chapter, what concept do you think describes why Mindy knows that he left her wallet someplace?

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• webbers law

• psychic abilities

Candace is at a Halloween party. One game asks partygoers to put their hand in a bowl and see if they can say what is inside. Candace puts her hand in the bowl and immediately can tell that there are peeled grapes in the bowl. What do you call her identification of the peeled grapes?

• sensory adaptation

• perception

• sensation

• inattentional blindness

A sentry on night duty notices a very soft noise and calls out for the thief to “Halt!” This is an example of:

• murphy's law

• an alert sentry

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

You are one of the judges in a chili-tasting contest and are trying to select the winner of the "Hottest Chili" award. What is this an example of?

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• inattentional blindness

• weber's laws

It is late at night and you are trying to go to bed without waking your roommate. You want to find your favorite nightwear without turning on the light. After carefully and quietly opening your dresser drawer, you reach in and try to distinguish it from the four other things that are in the drawer.

This is an example of:

• absolute threshold

• a teenager coming home late

• difference threshold

• murphy's law

Decreased sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as

• inattentional blindness

• sensory adaptation

• difference threshold

• transduction