1.6a Sensory Processes Quiz

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

• Perception

• Sensation

• Transduction

• Psychophysics

What are sensory receptors?

• Brain cells that interpret stimuli

• Nerve endings that respond to stimuli

• Muscles that react to stimuli

• Hormones that regulate stimuli

What is the process by which our brain organizes and interprets sensory information?

• Sensation

• Transduction

• Perception

• Psychophysics

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

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

• Transduction

• Signal detection theory

What type of processing is guided by higher-level mental processes?

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Transduction

• Sensory adaptation

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

• Perception

• Transduction

• Psychophysics

• Priming

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

• Sensation

• Perception

• Psychophysics

• Signal detection theory

What is the minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time?

• Absolute threshold

• Difference threshold

• Sensory adaptation

• Priming

What theory predicts how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus amid background noise?

• Psychophysics

• Signal detection theory

• Transduction

• Weber's law

What is the activation of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response?

• Sensory adaptation

• Priming

• Transduction

• Weber's law