Sensation and Perception: Introduction

Sensation and Perception: Introduction

9th - 12th Grade

20 Qs

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Sensation and Perception: Introduction

Sensation and Perception: Introduction

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9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Texting and driving is a major cause of car accidents in the modern day. Which academic term that we discussed defines this inability to focus on texting and driving at simultaneously?

Perceptual Set

Selective Attention

Absolute Threshold

Change Blindness

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 12 pts

Which brain component routes all sensory information, except olfaction, to its appropriate brain region for processing?

Somatosensory Cortex

Frontal Lobe

Thalamus

Medulla

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

The conversion of one form of energy to another is called

Parapsychology

Retinal Disparity

Transduction

Transitionary Processing

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 12 pts

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

absolute threshold for human vision
difference threshold for human vision.
perceived threshold for human vision
ratio threshold for human vision

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

1.       Sensation is to __________ as perception is to __________.

Recognizing a stimulus; detecting a stimulus
Detecting a stimulus; recognizing a stimulus
Interpreting a stimulus; detecting a stimulus
Seeing; hearing

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

perception

sensation

adaptation

habituation

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