AP Psych Module 16 (Basics of Sensation & Perception)

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

• Sensation

• Perception

• Top-Down Processing

• Absolute Thresholds

What is the process by which our brain organizes and interprets information, enablings us to recognize meaningful objects and events?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Transduction

What term refers to analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information?

• Perception

• Top-Down Processing

• Bottom-Up Processing

• Weber's Law

What term refers to information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions and expectations?

• Sensation

• Top-Down Processing

• Weber's Law

• Transduction

What is the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?

• Selective Attention

• Weber's Law

• Transduction

• Absolute Threshold

What concept is related to the cocktail party effect?

• Selective Attention

• Weber's Law

• Transduction

• Absolute Threshold

The ability of our brains to selectively attend to and process limited portions of incoming information is illustrated by all of the following EXCEPT

• Change Blindness

• Unitentional Blindness

• Absolute Threshold

• Choice Blindness

What term refers to the minimum stimuus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time?

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

• Transduction

• Sensory Adaptation

What theory attempts to predict how and when we detect the presence of a fiat stimulus amid bacground stimulation and is based on a person's expereice, expectations, motivation and alertness?

• Signal Detection Theory

• Weber's Law

• Gestalt Theory

• Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

What term refers to stimuli that our below ones absolute threshold for conscious awareness?

• Subliminal

• Inattentional Blindness

• Selective Attention

• Parapsychology