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Unit 4: Sensation and Perception Review
Unit 4: Sensation and Perception Review
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Loud music higher than _____ decibels may be destructive to your hearing.
60
80
30
20
2
The buds on your tongue are called
papillae
ciliary
glial cells
papyrus
3
Which theory dictates the pain signal? It helps when you block it with competing stimuli.
Gate Control Theory
Opponent Process Theory
Trichromatic Theory
Gage theory
4
Sensory adaptation refers to
increasing perception of a constant, annoying stimuli
the process of organizing and interpreting sensory input.
stimulus energies are changed into neural impulses.
diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.
5
Transmiting sounds from the air to the bones of the middle ear is the job of the...
hair cells within the inner ear.
fluid in the semicircular canals.
hair cells within the basilar membrane.
eardrum.
6
The sense of smell is known as
vestibular
gustatory
olfactory
kinesthetic
7
A subliminal Message is one that is below ones _____________.
Level of sensation
Threshold of awareness
Threshold of Conciousness
Level of tolerance
8
A "forgotten sense" that tells you exactly what your body position is doing.
Kinesthetic
Visual
Vestibular
Taste
9
People who are born with an integration of their senses (color may be integrated with a taste)
parallel processing
subliminal stimulation
synesthesia
kinesthesis
10
The light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the rods and cones, is the
iris
fovea
lens
retina
11
A list of words is repeated, but you
failed
to notice a change in the person speaking...
Change deafness
Change blindness
Inattentional Blindness
Selective attention
12
We become accustom to stimuli over time, this is called
Habituation
Crossed senses
Dishabituation
Sensory Input fallacy
13
You become BLIND to certain smells in your dirty room because of _____.
Sensory Deprivation
Sensory Prolification
Sensory hallucinations
Sensory Adaptation
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A cochlear implant would be most helpful for those who suffer
sensorineural hearing loss.
a punctured eardrum
a damaged semicircular canal
conduction hearing loss.
15
" I knew you were trouble when you ....." The reason you can fill in the blank is because
Shape Consistency
You are a closet SWIFTY
Closure
You love TAY TAY
16
The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information is called...
sensation
parallel processing
perception
accomodation
17
Another word for Face Blindness is called
anomsia.
prosopagnosia.
Weber's law.
apraxia.
18
When you stare at a red square and then shift your eyes to a white surface, the afterimage is
yellow
blue
green
black
19
You don't see your nose on your face because of _______.
The Visual Cliff
Fovea
Change blindness
Selective attention
20
A subliminal message is one that is presented
while an individual is under hypnosis.
in a manner that is unconsciously persuasive.
repetitiously.
below one's absolute threshold for awareness.
21
Which of the following terms means "bottom up processing"?
Perception
Parallel Processing
Accomodation
Sensation
22
Taste buds ______ and ______ as you get older.
Increase; decline in sensitivity
Decrease; decline in sensitivity
Increase; increase in sensitivity
Decrease; increase in sensitivity
23
The largest organ of your body that relays the touch sense is the _______.
Your brain
Your skin
Your big giant arm at the gun show
Your heart
24
Sound wave vibrations are transmitted by three tiny bones located in the
fovea
basilar membrane
vestibular sacs
middle ear
25
Vertigo can make you dizzy, they are crystals in the ______ that can cause this!
Visual Cliff
Auditory Canal
Semicircular Canals
Cochlea
26
The amount of light entering the eye is regulated by the
retina
iris
optic nerve
lens
27
The opponent color of red is ________.
Green
Dark red
Purple
Magenta
28
Your favorite character from TWD is seen here in this visual. Which type of processing is used?
Bottom UP
Feature Detectors
TOP down
Sensation
29
The Ames illusion is about ....
the mis-perception of distance and tricking your brain.
shape constancy and the illusion of colors
retinal hemorrhages and injuries of the eye
the visual cliff and the fear of babies falling
30
Gestalt is best described as a(n)
perceptual adaptation
organized whole
illusion
binocula cue
31
As a door opens, it casts a trapezoidal shape on our retinas yet, we perceive it as rectangular
perceptual adaptation
figure and ground
shape constancy
retinal disparity
32
Phantom limb sensations best illustrate that pain can be experienced in the absence of
figure-ground.
parallel processing.
sensory input.
conscious awareness.
33
The McGurk effect best illustrates
tinnitus
color constancy
sensory adaptation
sensory interaction
34
Flashing Lights that emulate waves of motion best illustrates the _________.
The famous phi phenomenon
Retinal disparity within the average person
The phenomenon of the after image effect
Bionic powers of vision we may all be capable of
35
When two adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession, we perceive movement which is...
perceptual set.
lightness constancy rule.
a context effect.
the phi phenomenon.
36
The nociceptors carry the _____ signal to the brain.
Pain
Speech
Pleasure
Breathing
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The minimum amount of stimulation one needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time...
subliminal threshold.
adaptation threshold.
difference threshold.
absolute threshold.