Unit 4: Sensation and Perception

Front

What is the process by which sensory receptors and the nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from the environment?

Back

Sensation

Front

Lily touches a cold window and immediately feels the chill. This experience involves the activation of her:

Back

Senses

Front

What is the process called when Grace organizes and interprets sensory information to recognize she is in a bakery?

Back

Perception

Front

Fill in the blank: Psychophysics is the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our ________ experience of them.

Back

psychological

Front

Luna is curious about how the brightness of a light affects how she perceives it. What field of study would examine the interaction between the sensations she receives and her experiences of them?

Back

The interaction between the sensations we receive and our experiences of them

Front

James walks into his favorite bakery and immediately recognizes the smell of fresh bread, even before seeing any loaves. This is an example of information processing guided by ________, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.

Back

higher-level mental processes

Front

Emma is reading a faded sign on a building. She can't see all the letters clearly, but she uses her ________ to fill in the gaps and understand what the sign says.

Back

background knowledge

Front

Hannah walks into a new restaurant and immediately knows to look for a menu, find a seat, and wait for a server. What is this mental framework called according to the slide?

Back

A mental representation on how we expect the world to be (Mental Shortcut)

Front

A combination of multiple schemas create ________, which is a predisposition to perceive something in a certain way.

Back

perceptual sets

Front

When Mason visits a new restaurant, his schema helps him decide where to look for the bathroom. In which locations is Mason most likely to search?

Back

In the front or back