Sensation and Perception

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What is Sensation?

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Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.

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The sense of movement and body position

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Kinesthesis

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Which of the following is a perception? noting a change in temperature, hearing an increase in volume, recognizing an object as a car, viewing a decrease in brightness

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recognizing an object as a car

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Being able to see a candle flame 30 miles away on a clear night is the

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absolute threshold for human vision

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Which of the following is true about rods and cones? Options: There are more cones in the retina than rods., Rods are photoreceptors, while cones are not, Rods are sensitive to lower levels of light than cones., Rods are similar to color film and cones are similar to black-and-white film.

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Rods are sensitive to lower levels of light than cones.

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Vibration is crucial to which sense? Options: sight, hearing, smell, taste

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hearing

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If an elderly person thinks that food does not taste as good as it used to, what is the likely reason? Options: a decline in his or her kinesthetic senses, a decline in his or her cochlea, a decline in his or her vestibular system, a decline in her or his olfaction

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a decline in her or his olfaction

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Suppose that you are viewing two objects at different distances in the same line of vision. What can you determine about these objects by moving your head back and forth?

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which object is closer

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If a dog hears a whistle that a person cannot hear, this suggests that dogs and humans have different

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absolute thresholds

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If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see

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colors