Sensation Review

After meeting a person for the first time, you try to decide whether they are a good person or a bad person based on their appearance.  Which term BEST explains your evaluation?

• Bottom-Up Processing
• Top-Down Processing
• Sensory Adaptation
• Selective Attention

While looking at a triangle, specific neurons called "feature detectors" fire in response to the lines and angles in the shape.  Feature detectors are located in the _____.

• Retina
• Cornea
• Thalamus
• Occipital Lobe

Being able to detect a single candle flame from 30 miles away on a clear dark night at least 50% of the time is known as:

• Weber's Law
• Subliminal Stimuli
• Difference Threshold
• Absolute Threshold

Mary is texting while driving.  She fails to notice the car in front of her has stopped for a red light.  She subsequently crashes into the car.  The reason for the crash is due to

• Change Blindness
• Choice Blindness
• Cocktail Party Effect
• Selective Attention

Which type of processing looks at the whole picture and uses previous experiences to make determinations?

• Top-down processing
• Bottom-up processing
• Concurrent processing
• Parallel processing

Which part of the eye uses accommodation to see the image clearly?

• Retina
• Blind Spot
• Lens
• Iris

Which of the following might help Larry see the subtle difference between two colors the best?

• The cones in the fovea
• The cones in the peripheral of the retnia
• The rods in the fovea
• The rods in the peripheral of the retina

Which theory of color vision states that the thalmaus will produce afterimages of black-white, red-green, and blue-yellow colors when overly stimulated?

• Young-Helmholtz
• Place
• Parallel Processing
• Opponent Processing

Experiencing depth, form, color and motion simultaneously in the brain is known as

• Opponent Processing
• Parallel Processing
• Trichromatic Processing
• Top-Down Processing

Finding a cold classroom a little more comfortable once you have been in there for a while would be an example of

• sensory interaction

• stimulus generalization

• just noticeable difference

• sensory adaptation