Sensation and Perception Quiz 1

What is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

What are sensory nerve endings that respond to stimuli called?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Selective Attention

• Sensory Receptors

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What is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

Which type of processing begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information?

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Top-Down Processing

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

Which type of processing is guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations?

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Top-Down Processing

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

What is the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus called?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

What is it called when we fail to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere?

• Inattentional Blindness

• Change Blindness

• Subliminal

• Priming

What is it called when we fail to notice changes in the environment?

• Inattentional Blindness

• Change Blindness

• Subliminal

• Priming

What is the conversion of one form of energy into another called?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Selective Attention

• Transduction

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What is the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli and our psychological experience of them called?

• Psychophysics

• Absolute Threshold

• Signal Detection Theory

• Difference Threshold