Psych - Unit 5 Review - Sensation and Perception

It is a common belief among some people that if you listen to Led Zeppelin's “Stairway to Heaven” backwards, you will hear a satanic message. This is an example of...

• Absolute Threshold

• Sensory Adaptation

• Subthreshold

• Signal Detection Theory

Going "nose blind" to your bad smelling room is an example of...

• Absolute Threshold

• Sensory Adaptation

• Subthreshold

• Signal Detection Theory

Although Robert was sitting right next to his wife, he smelled a skunk minutes before she did. Apparently, Robert has a lower ________ for skunk odor than his wife.

• Absolute Threshold

• Sensory Adaptation

• Subthreshold

• Signal Detection Theory

According to signal detection theory, the likelihood of a response to a stimulus depends on the

• Participants knowledge of thresholds

• Psychological state of the person & the intensity of the stimulus

• Level of olfaction being greater than the stimulus

• Difference threshold being different than the absolute threshold

Which of the following is an example of top down processing?

• Using phonetics to sound out a word

• Piecing a puzzle together without looking at the picture

• Instant feeling of fear in response to a car pulling out in front of you

• Understanding difficult handwriting when placed in the context of complete sentences

Colorblindness is caused by missing or defective

• Rods

• Cones

• Pupils

• Corneas

This theory states that we can lessen some pains by shifting our attention away from pain impulses.

• Pain perception method

• Acute sensation deprivation

• Theory of relativity

• Gate-Control Theory

The name of the transparent protective coating over the front part of the eye is the:

• Lens

• Iris

• Pupil

• Cornea

Olfactory cells are the receptors for which sense?

• Touch

• Smell

• Taste

• Vision

An afterimage can best be defined as:

• Sense experience that occurs after a visual stimulus has been removed

• Decreased sensitivity of rods and cones in bright light

• Increased sensitivity of rods and cones in darkness

• Distinguishable fine details of a stimulation