Unit 3 Review

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The lowest level of stimuli someone can detect

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Absolute Threshold

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Subliminal Definition

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Below one's threshold for conscious awareness

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What is gustation?

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Sense of taste

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Which of the following is defined as a tendency or bias to perceive something instead of another thing? Options: perceptual constancy, perceptual predisposition, perceptive adaptation, perceptual set

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perceptual set

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What is bottom up processing?

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Begins with the retrieval of sensory information from our external environment to build perceptions

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What is perception?

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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.

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What is Olfaction?

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Sense of smell

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Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Selective Attention

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What is the point on the retina where no receptors are located? Options: Retinal disparity, Optical discontinuity, Blind spot, Receptorial vacuum

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Blind spot

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Desirable objects seeming closer than they actually are is an example of which influence on perception? (Options: Context, Motivation, Emotion, State)

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Motivation