AP Psych Unit #3: Sensation & Perception

Which brain component routes all sensory information, except olfaction, to its appropriate brain region for processing?

• Somatosensory Cortex

• Frontal Lobe

• Thalamus

• Medulla

The conversion of one form of energy to another is called

• Parapsychology

• Retinal Disparity

• Transduction

• Transitionary Processing

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

1.       Sensation is to __________ as perception is to __________.

• Recognizing a stimulus; detecting a stimulus
• Detecting a stimulus; recognizing a stimulus
• Interpreting a stimulus; detecting a stimulus
• Seeing; hearing

The point at which a person can detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time it is presented is called the ______.

• Absolute threshold

• range threshold

• difference threshold

• just-noticeable difference

The process of bringing meaning to the raw data your senses take in is called ________.

• perception

• sensation

• adaptation

• habituation

The lowest stimuli intensity required for detection is the ______ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ______.

• absolute threshold; just noticeable difference

• base value; just noticeable difference

• response criterion; sensory constant

• just noticeable difference; absolute threshold

While waiting in line at Starbucks, Nick 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

• Change Blindness

• Choice Blindness

• Signal Detection Theory

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.

• absolute threshold

• tolerance level

• gustatory saturation level

• adaptation level

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of other's behavior. This best illustrates the impact of

• retinal disparity
• interposition
• top-down processing
• perceptual adaptation