Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception

What is the process by which individuals interpret and make sense of sensory information received from their environment. It involves organizing, selecting, and interpreting sensory stimuli to create a meaningful and coherent understanding of the world? For example, everyone has a subjective perspective of the blue/black vs white/gold dress

• Reception

• Transduction

• Transmission

• Perception

Consider looking at a piece of abstract art for the first time. As you examine the patterns, colors, and shapes, you start to analyze these basic visual elements. Your eyes follow the lines and curves, and you process the individual details. Without any prior knowledge or expectations about the artwork, you begin to form an understanding of the artwork based solely on the sensory information you're receiving. Which type of processing takes in the stimuli from the environment, then attempt to understand its meaning?

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

• Parallel processing

• Gestalt processing

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According to the Gestalt principles of organization, which principle involves grouping close objects together?

• Proximity

• Similarity

• Closure

• Good continuation

Imagine you're at a pool party, and you decide to take a refreshing jump into the water. At first, the cold sensation of the cool water against your skin is quite noticeable due to the initial shock and temperature. As you spend more time in the pool, your body undergoes adjusts. The nerve receptors in your skin become less responsive to the constant stimulus of the water temperature. After a while, you might not feel the coolness as intensely as you did when you first jumped in. What is the term for the process whereby sensitivity to prolonged stimulation tends to decline over time?

• Sensory adaptation

• Absolute threshold

• Signal detection

• Perceptual constancy

What is the minimal change in a stimulus that can just barely be detected? For example, one kitkat weighs 3.2 ounces and the other ways 3.4 ounces.

• Absolute threshold

• Just noticeable difference

• Signal detection threshold

• Perceptual threshold

Which theory of color vision suggests that there are three types of cones (blue, green, and red), and each are sensitive to a specific range of wavelengths?

• Trichromatic theory

• Opponent process theory

• Dual-process theory

• Color blindness theory

You are at a party when your notice someone smells like popcorn. You use your nose to locate the man who is selling popcorn in the back of party house. What is the term for the sense of smell?

• Olfaction

• Gustation

• Kinesthesia

• Vestibular sense

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Which of these does NOT influence someone's perception of pain?

• One's Attentiveness to the pain

• One's Expectation of pain

• If the skin or area that is in pain is tingling

You are using your tastebuds (papillae) to eat this nice and tender steak. How would one describe the taste of the steak?

• Sweet

• Umami

• Sour

• Bitter

_______ are in the eye that help assist with color; while _____ assist with low-light/night vision settings

• Rods; Cones

• Cones; Vestibular

• Rods; Thermoreception

• Cones; Rods