Sensation and Perception #1

Receptors that are responsible for transferring light into neural impulses.

• Rods & cones of retina

• Optic nerve

• Cornea

• Iris

When a stimulus activates a receptor.

• Transmission

• Perception

• Recognition

• Sensation

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.

• Sensation

• Perception

• Sensory awareness

• Perceptual organization

Which of the following is true about rods and cones?

• There are more cones in the retina than rods.
• Rods are photoreceptors, while cones are not
• Rods are sensitive to lower levels of light than cones.
• Rods are similar to color film and cones are similar to black-and-white film.

A sensation may be combined with other sensations and past experiences to yield a

• constancy.

• perception.

• hypothesis.

• sensory hypothesis

If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see

• colors

• shapes

• sizes

• black and white

Sensation

• opening in the iris that regulates the amount of light entering the eye

• the tendency to perceive certain objects the same way despite changing conditions

• what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor

• contains light-sensitive receptor cells

When information is converted to neural messages it is called:

• Transvision

• Transportation

• Transduction

• Transmission

________ occurs when sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced.

• Transduction
• Sensation
• Perception
• Sensory adaptation

In the human eye, rods are to __________, as cones are to ___________.

• light/ color

• color/ light

• monochromat/ dichromat

• dichromat/ monochromat