Unit 4: Sensation and Perception Quiz

Top-Down Processing

• how experience and expectations create our perceptions.

• how sensory receptors send information to our brain.

Although many conversations are occurring around you, you can still focus on what someone is telling you and disregard everything else. This is an example of

• selective attention

• inattentional blindness

• signal detection theory

• absolute threshold

While texting and driving, Paul didn't realize he drove through a red light. This can best be explained by

• inattentional blindness

• absolute threshold

• transduction

• change blindness

Converting one form of energy into another so that it an be interpreted by the brain is called ___________.

• transduction

• signal detection theory

• priming

In a silent room, Kari slowly starts increasing the volume of her music. When she FIRST hears the music, she has reached her

• absolute threshold.

• difference threshold.

When first walking into Mr. Sira's class, you can clearly smell his air freshener. However, by the end of class you no longer notice it. This can best be explained by

• absolute threshold

• Weber's law

• sensory adaptation

• selective attention

In vision, WAVELENGTH allows you to detect

• color

• brightness

In vision, AMPLITUDE allows you to detect

• brightness

• color/hue

RODS allow you to see (Check all that apply)

• black and white

• at night

• color

• detail

CONES allow you to see (Check all that apply)

• black and white

• at night

• color

• detail