Sensation and Perception Review

What sense helps maintain balance?

• Vestibular

• Kinesthetic

• Proprioception

• Audition

• Olfaction

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Almost half the birds in the tree outside Brian's window were brown and the rest were red, so Brian perceived them as two different groups of birds. This best illustrates...

• proximity

• closure

• similarity

• connectedness

• disparity

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The classic gate-control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the...

• basilar membrane

• spinal cord

• semicircular canal

• olfactory bulbs

• fovea

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Where is the basilar membrane located?

• middle ear

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• feature detected

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The coiled, fluid filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called...

• eustachian tube

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• vestibular aparatus

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The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as...

• opponent process theory

• feature detector

• sensory interaction

• Weber's law

• absolute threshold

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A person's diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as...

• accomodation

• parallel processing

• sensory adaptation

• transduction

• sensory equilibrium

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What is it called when we construct perceptions based on experience and expectations?

• Sensation
• Selective attention
• Bottom-Up processing
• Top-Down processing

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What part of the eye controls the size of the pupil?

• Cornea
• Lens
• Iris
• Retina

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A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not the other

• Perceptual set
• Context effect
• ESP
• Top down processing

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