S&P Quiz 1

When a stimulus activates a receptor.  

• Senstaion
• Perception
• Recognition
• Response system

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.  

• Senstation
• Perception
• Gestalt Awareness
• Sensory organization

The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half of the time.  

• Differnce threshold
• Absolute threshold
• Gate threshold
• Subliminal message

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

If a dog hears a whistle that a person cannot hear, this suggests that dogs and humans have different

• kinesthesis systems.

• Gestalt ratios.

• absolute thresholds

• vestibular systems.

Sensation

• opening in the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye

• the tendency to perceive certain objects the same way despite changing conditions

• what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor

• contains light-sensitive receptor cells

What is Signal Detection theory?

• Ability to detect various sounds and colors

• Ability to focus on one stimulus and ignore others

• Ability to see traffic signals

Alice is eating a piece of fruit. After a while, she notices that the fruit tastes less sweet and tangy than it did when she first bit into it. Alice is experiencing ____.

• habituation
• accommodation
• sensory adaptation
• subliminal perception

The smallest difference between two stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time is called

• absolute threshold
• difference threshold
• sensory adaptation
• subliminal perception

Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.

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