PSY Sensation & Perception Review

Information processed below the normal level of awareness is called

• adaptive
• subliminal
• psychophysical
• subnormal

Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.

• encoding; detection
• detection; interpretation
• interpretation; organization
• threshold; transduction

________ occurs when sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced.

• Transduction
• Sensation
• Perception
• Sensory adaptation

You are shown a picture of your grandfather's face, but the eyes and mouth are blocked out. You still recognize it as a picture of your grandfather. Which type of processing best explains this example of perception? 

• bottom up processing
• signal detection theory
• top down processing
• gestalt theory

Your tendency to see the words "went" and "ties," rather than the word "twenties" when you look at T WENT TIES is best explained by the organizing principle of 

• continuity 
• closure 
• linear perspective 
• proximity

Figures tend to be perceived as whole, complete objects, even if spaces or gaps exist in the representation, thus demonstrating the principle of:

• Closure
• Proximity
• Continuity
• Similarity

Studying the road map before her trip, Colleen had no trouble following the route of the highway she planned to travel. Colleen’s ability illustrates the principle of:

• Closure
• Similarity
• Continuity
• Proximity

You are most likely to observe the phi phenomenon while:

•  looking at a string of Christmas tree lights that blink quickly in succession.
•  staring at a Necker cube.
•  comparing the size of the moon while it is in the sky, to its size near the horizon.
• attempting to catch a fly ball that is quickly coming toward you

A reversible figure, such as the vase/face figure, makes use of which principle of perception?

• closure
• proximity
• similarity
• figure-ground relationship

the smallest amount of a particular stimulus that can be sensed

• pain threshold
• minute nerve capability
• absolute threshold
• difference threshold