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Sensation and Perception, yo.
Sensation and Perception, yo.
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#psychology #sensation #perception
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Quick! Now,
CONES
?!
Low Light/Movement
Transduction
Color/Fine Detail Sight
JUSTICE
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What makes vision possible?
Light converted into electrical impulses
Hertz
Radiation
Light
3
What does the location of our optic nerve cause?
Eyeball rotation
The ability to blink
Blind spots
Perfection
4
What is the purpose of the
pupil
?
See
Let light in / Control amount through contraction & dilation
Refract light
Support the eye
5
A sound wave with a low frequency and a high amplitude would best describe what?
A tuba sounding off next to your ear.
A dog-whistle sounding off next to your ear.
Dr. Dewald saying "boy-howdy" from afar.
Reggae music.
6
Where are sensory receptors found?
Spinal Cord
Skin
Everywhere
Brain
7
Opponent process theory: What color should you see after looking away from the screen?
Green
White
Yellow
Blue
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What is pictured here? (Hint: Largest gathering of neurons in eye)
Pupil
Optic Nerves
An unsettling omelet
Fovea
9
This part of the eye has the greatest density of photoreceptors and the best visual acuity.
Cornea
Retina
Fovea
butthole
10
You're holding 12 pennies. I take 4 away. You can tell the weight difference. What is this?
Detectability theory
Sensory perception
8 pennies
Difference threshold
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You see ears: it's is a bunny/I see a beak: it's is a duck. What perceptual processing is this?
Top-down processing
Bottom-top processing
Bottom-up processing
Top-bottom processing
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_______ is the process by which sensory receptors convert stimuli into neural impulses.
Top-down processing
Transduction
Bottom-up processing
Transparency
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What type of perception are you using to understand this picture?
Top-down processing
Bottom-up processing
monocular
Experiential
14
What are
photoreceptors
?
Cones
"Seeing Neurons" specialized for receiving light
Things that make plants grow
The reason why Nikons are better that Canons
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What Gestalt principle allows you to see this as a shoe?
Closure
Similarity
None of the above
Bottom-up processing
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Bottom-up Processing uses
Specific shapes, individual features
Features you're familiar with
Gestalt theory
Prior experience and knowledge
17
Where vision occurs
The eye
The retina
The occipital lobe
Kentucky
18
Tendency to perceive an object as remaining the same even when retinal image changes.
Closure
Monocular depth cue
Perceptual constancy
Binocular depth cue
19
Reality is a...
Semantic Construction
TV Show
Joke
John Cena
20
Why can't we hear sound in deep space?
Sound waves require oxygen to travel
There are no molecules to vibrate.
Depleted levels of serotonin
We can, just not very well.
21
This theory suggest there are
three
types of color receptors/cones in the eye:
Opponent Process Theory
Kaleidoscopes Process
Trichromatic Theory
Rainbowian Theory
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Opponent Process Theory states:
The eye sees all the colors at once
The eye records the differences between colors. (opposites)
The eye records the similarities between colors.
One eye does not see color without the other eye
23
Which theory of color vision is correct?
3) The 20/20 Theory
2) Opponent Processing Theory
1) Trichromatic Theory
4) Both 1 and 2
24
Top-Down Processing Uses
Individual pieces rather than the whole
combines features into more complex forms
Preexisting knowledge and experience
Specific shapes and individual features
25
What sucks about human vision?
We can't see ghosts
We have a blindspot
Lens Crafters
We can only see in light
26
What is predominantly pictured here? (hint: Protects the eye)
Pupil
Cornea
Lens
Iris
27
Refracts light, works like a telescope to control distance of light to retina
Pupil
Fovea
Cornea
Lens
28
How does your body
know that the stove is hot?
Joe Pesci
Sensory Receptors
Cilia
Tactile Cells
29
Sensation = Capture. Perception = ?
Biology
Interpretation
Napolean Dynamite
Physical
30
What is color? (Don't worry, this isn't art class...)
A semantic construction
All of the above
Sensation AND Perception
Length of a lightwave
31
What type of problem does this pirate have?
Perceptual
Spiritual
Existential
Sensational
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Quick! What do
RODS
do?!
Phototransduction
Low Light Sight/Objects/Movement
Color/Fine Detail Sight
Mission Impossible
