Sensation Perception

Which of the following is a perception?

• noting a change in temperature

• hearing an increase in volume

• recognizing an object as a car

• viewing a decrease in brightness

The "floating finger sausage" represents which concept?

• sensory adaptation

• difference threshold

• retinal disparity

• hallucinations

The act of becoming aware through the senses

• perception

• psychophysics

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole figures

• Gestalt Psychology

• subliminal messages

• motion parallax

• constancy

​ (a)   refers to the way that sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced; ​ (b)   refers to what happens when sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor.

• Perception

• Sensation

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

Match the following

• top-down processing

• information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.

• Sensation

• the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.

• perception

• analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information.

• bottom-up processing

• the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

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

• sensation

• perception

• psychophysics

• absolute threshold

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.  

• Senstation

• Perception

• Gestalt Awareness

• Sensory organization

Alice is eating a piece of fruit. After a while, she notices that the fruit tastes less sweet and tangy than it did when she first bit into it. Alice is experiencing ____.

• habituation

• accommodation

• sensory adaptation

• subliminal perception

Identify the Law

• Law of circles

• Law of Proximity

• law of Grouping