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a #Psychology review on #Sensationandperception
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1
What is the purpose of the iris?
to enable night vision
To process color
To focus light on the retina
to allow light into the eye
2
Sensing the position and movement of individual body parts is an example of which sense?
Olfactory
Kinesthetic
Auditory
Vestibular
3
What do we call the conversion of stimulus energies, like sights and sound, in neural impulses?
Transduction
Signal detection theory
Perception
Priming
4
Signal detection theory is most closely associated with which perception process?
Smell
Sensory adaptation
Absolute thresholds
Context effects
5
What do we call a mental predisposition that influences our interpretation of a stimulus?
Transduction
Priming
Perceptual set
Signal detection Theory
6
Which of the following is produced by perceptual set?
Not noticing that the song changes in the store
moving an arm quickly so that a mosquito flies away
Surprise at hearing a cowboy speak with a british accent.
Not noticing a watch on your wrist
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Light’s __ is the distance from 1 wave peak to the next. This determines the __we experience.
hue; wavelength
hue ; intensity
wavelength; intensity
Wavelength, hue
8
Pitch depends on which of the following?
Number of sound waves that reach the ear in a given time
Amplitude of sound waves
Decibels of a sound wave
Number of hair cells stimulated
9
What happens when experiences influence our interpretation of data?
Bottom-up processing
selective attention
Transduction
Top-down processing
10
Adjusting water until Ed feels a difference in temperature is an example of...
A difference threshold
Signal detection
an absolute threshold
Weber's law
11
Which is most closely associated with hairlike receptors in the semicircular canals?
Hearing
Body Position
Touch
Smell
12
What are the neurons in the occipital lobe that respond to edges, angles, & movements, called?
Ganglion cells
Feature detectors
Cones
Foveas
13
The view from Kodak’s left eye is slightly different from that of his right eye. This is due to
Relative Size
Convergence
Retinal Disparity
Linear Perspective
14
Ed&Bo are in a dancing competition.It's easy for kids to see them against the dance floor bc of
The visual cliff
Figure-ground relationships
color constancy
sensory restriction
15
Our tendency to see faces in clouds&other ambiguous stimuli is partly based on what principle?
Perceptual Set
Selective attention
Shape constancy
ESP
16
What is the transparent, protective layer that light passes through as it enters the eye called
lens
cornea
Iris
Pupil
17
What states that to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a minimum percentage?
Signal detection theory
Weber’s law
Absolute threshold
Different threshold
18
Which of the following explains reversed-color afterimages?
Feature Detectors
Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
Parallel processing
Hering's opponent process theory
19
Which of the following is the best example of kinesthesia?
Awareness of the smell of freshly brewed coffee
Ability to feel pressure on your arm
Ability to hear a soft clicking clock
Awareness ofthe position of your arms when swimming sideways
20
The three small bones of the ear are located in the...
outer ear
cochlea
middle ear
inner ear
