Sensation/Perception building review

Information processing that draws on expectations and experiences to interpret incoming sensory information. Starts with big picture, works to details.

• Sensation

• Perception

• Bottom-up Processing

• Top-Down Processing

The minimum amount of difference needed to detect that two stimuli are not the same

• sensation

• Selective Attention

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

After feeling the cold water against your skin when you first jump into the pool, after a few minutes, you no longer feed cold. This best illustrates:

• Weber's Law

• Accomodation

• Tolerance Level

• Sensory Adaptation

Sarah is given one 100-oz bottle and one 99-oz bottle. She says that they feel the same weight. Then, she is given a 100-oz bottle and a 97-oz bottle. This time, she notices a difference. This is an example of what?

• Difference Threshold

• Weber's Law

• Sensory Adaptation

• Conscious Awareness

We are more likely to give attention to

• Any combination of the five senses

• All the five senses

• one sense at a time

• Hunger

Noticing a stimulus at least 50% of the time is which of the following?

• sensation
• perception
• absolute threshold
• difference threshold

The part of the brain which processes what are eyes see:

• somatosensory cortex

• visual cortex

• motor cortex

• retina

The main difference between cone cells and rod cells in the human eye is that:   

• rod cells are bigger than cone cells.
• rod cells respond to color and cone cells respond to shades of gray.
• there is a greater number of cone cells than rod cells. 
•  rod cells respond to light intensity and cone cells respond to color.

What do we call the specialized neurons in the optical lobe's visual cortex that respond to particular edges, lines, angles, and movements?

• Rods

• Cones

• Foveas

• Feature Detectors

This is a spot that you can't see

• Peripheral Vision
• Pupil
• Cornea
• Blind Spot