sensation and perception test

Organization of sensory information into a meaningful experience

• sensation

• perception

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

This occurs when a stimulus activates a sensory receptor (eyes, ears, etc)

• sensation

• perception

• Gestalt

• constancy

Study of people’s tendencies to make correct judgments in detecting the presence of a stimuli

• stereoscopic theory

• anamorphic theory

• Beuchet theory

• signal detection theory

Weakest amount of a stimulus that people can detect half the time

• just noticeable difference

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

Smallest change in a stimulus that can be detected between two stimuli

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• sensation

What is combined with past experience to create a perception?

• stimuli

• sensations

• sense receptors

• environmental changes

The study of the relationship between stimuli and sensory experiences

• signal detection

• psychophysics

• psychokinesis

• psychodynamic

The principle that the larger the stimulus the larger the change required to notice it is called…..

• absolute threshold

• Weber's Law

• just noticeable difference

• Stroop effect

The smallest increase or decrease in the intensity of a stimulus that a person can detect is called…

• absolute threshold

• signal detection

• just noticeable difference

• none of the above

Perception that misrepresent stimuli

• illusions

• perceptual inference

• constancy

• Gestalt pattern