Intro Sensation and Perception Quiz Review

When a stimulus activates a receptor.

• Sensation

• 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

The specialized cells in each of the sense organs that collect information to send to the brain are called...

• sensory cells

• sensory nuerons

• bipolar cells

• ganglion cells

• sensory receptors

A person's diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as...

• accomodation

• parallel processing

• sensory adaptation

• transduction

• sensory equilibrium

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

Although Bill was seated next to his friend, he was able to smell the burning popcorn a full minute earlier than his friend. Bill must have a lower _________ for smell.

• accommodation level

• absolute threshold

• tolerance level

• gustatory saturation level

• adaptation level

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

Which of the following processes has begun as soon as special receptor cells for the senses are activated?

• perception
• adaptation
• habituation
• sensation