Module 1.6a Sensation: Basic Concepts (incomplete)

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

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

Your VESTIBULAR SENSE refers to your sense of

• balance

• smell

• taste

• style

Your semicircular canals and vestibular sacs provide you with a sense of

• balance

• smell

• taste

• hearing

Your sense of smell plays a role in how you taste. Your vision also plays a role in what you taste. The idea that one sense influences another is called

• sensory interaction

• just noticeable difference

• embodied cognition

• signal detection theory

OLFACTORY is a fancy word for

• smell

• taste

• sight

• hearing

GUSTATION is a fancy word for

• taste

• vision

• hearing

• smell