Sensation and Perception

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.

• Absolute threshold

• range threshold

• difference threshold

• just-noticeable difference

The process of bringing meaning to the raw data your senses take in is called ________.

• perception

• sensation

• adaptation

• habituation

The lowest stimuli intensity required for detection is the ______ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ______.

• absolute threshold; just noticeable difference

• base value; just noticeable difference

• response criterion; sensory constant

• just noticeable difference; absolute threshold

The place in the eye where the optic nerve meets is known as the ______.

• fovea

• blind spot

• optic chiasm

• optic nerve

Figure–ground relationships concern _________________.

• the tendency to perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete

• the tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• the tendency to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

Similarity is the tendency to perceive _________________.

• objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• things that look similar as being part of the same group

• objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

Proximity is the tendency to _________________.

• perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• complete figures that are incomplete

• perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

Continuity is the tendency to _________________.

• perceive objects, or figures, as existing on some background

• complete figures that are incomplete

• perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping

• perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

What sense helps maintain balance?

• Vestibular

• Kinesthetic

• Proprioception

• Audition

• Olfaction

While waiting in line at Starbucks, Kramer was playing games on his cell phone and subsequently failed to see the customer in front of him rob the cashier. This is an example of...

• inattentional blindness

• place theory

• blind spot

• feature detectors

• sensory adaptation