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PSYCHOLOGY: Sensation and Perception
PSYCHOLOGY: Sensation and Perception
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This is a quick review of the Senses, Sensation, Perception and illusions.
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1
This is an example of what type of illusion
Motion Parallax
Figure-Ground
Autokinetic
Hallucination
2
The perception that a sugar pill, thought to be medicine, is making you better, is called:
Weber's Law
the Placebo Effect
the Rule of Effect
The Volley Principle
3
Sound volume is measured in______________.
Frequency
Timbre
Decibels
Pitch
4
This optical illusion is the work of which of the following famous artists?
Walt Disney
Andy Warhol
Van Gogh
Escher
5
The experience of sensory stimulation is called_____________.
Sensation
Adaptation
Perception
Hallucination
6
This carries neural messages from the ear to the brain. It is called ______________
The Papillae
The Olfactory Nerve
The Optic Nerve
The Auditory Nerve
7
The
least
amount of stimulation that can be detected as sensation is called_______.
Perception
Absolute Threshold
Difference Threshold
Sensation
8
Skin receptors respond to all of the following EXCEPT:
Pressure
Light
Temperature
Pain
9
Subliminal Messaging (now illegal) was once used in _________________.
Behavior Therapy
Political Campaigning
Advertising in moving pictures
Teaching art to children
10
Small bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds are called the ____________.
Uvula
Decibels
Papillae
Pheremones
11
Receptors cells in the retina responsible for night vision and perception of light are called :
The Cone Cells
The Papillae
The Hammer, Anvil, and Stirrup
The Rod Cells
12
Optical Illusions result from distortions in________
One's Absolute Threshold for seeing
Sensation
One's vision
Perception
13
The ______________Carries neural messages from the eye to the brain.
The Olfactory Nerve
The Papillae
Auditory Nerve
The Optic Nerve
14
In sound - Timbre is defined as_____________.
The Frequency of sound.
The sound a tree makes when it falls
The Volume of sound.
Harmonic Texture
15
This is responsible for your sense of smell (and taste sometimes)______________
The Auditory Nerve
The Skin Receptors
The Olfactory Nerve
The Optic Nerve
16
This slanted floor and walls in this figure cause it to be what kind of illusion?
Autokinetic
Figure-Ground
Optical
Physical
17
The least amount of change in stimulation that can be detected as a change is called______
Adaptation
The Absolute Threshold
Sensory Overload
The Difference Threshold
18
The Vestibular System allows us to sense _______________.
Balance and fluidity of movement
The smallest amount of light in a dakenend room
When someone approaches us from behind
A change in air pressure before a storm
19
Sound is first experienced as a vibration by the____________.
"Hammer" bone
Auditory Nerve
Cochlea
Ear Drum (Tympanic Membrane)
20
Weber's Law of Psychophysics says that the more stimulus that is present___________
We will respond to a familiar stimulus before an unfamiliar
We will not notice stimulus that we have become adapted to
The less the change needed to produce a noticeable change
The greater the change needed to produce a noticeable change
21
The process of creating meaning from sensory experience is called__________
Perception
Sensation
Awareness
Illusion
22
This is an example of what type of illusion?
Figure-Ground
Autokinetic
Auditory
Physical
23
The tendency for a person to "tune-out" a sensation in favor one that is newer is called_____.
Sensory Ignorance
Sensory Overload
Sensory Adaptation
Sensory Awareness
24
Receptors cells in the retina responsible for
color
vision are called______________.
Cone Cells
Rod Cells
the Cornea
the Retina
25
The
chemical
that communicates information to other organisms by scent or smell is___
Pheremones
Phenomae
Hormones
Endorphins
