Sensation and perception

Which of the following is a perception?

• noting a change in temperature
• hearing an increase in volume
• recognizing an object as a car
• viewing a decrease in brightness

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

If a dog hears a whistle that a person cannot hear, this suggests that dogs and humans have different

• kinesthesis systems.

• Gestalt ratios.

• absolute thresholds

• vestibular systems.

Damage to the olfactory nerve might prevent a person from

• seeing a traffic light change.

• hearing birds chirp.

• smelling freshly baked bread.

• feeling the texture of

  a curtain.

A person sees Object A in its entirety, but part of Object B’s outline is interrupted by Object A. According to the overlapping cue, what can that person conclude about these objects?

• Object A is larger than Object B

• Object A is smaller than Object B.

• Object A is closer than Object B.

• Object A is farther away than Object B.

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

Absolute Threshold

• the weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time

• filling in the gaps in what our senses tell us

• what occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor

• organization of sensory information

This system controls the balance of the body.  

• Vestibular System
• Kinesthetic System
• Vision system
• Internal system

This form of selective attention allows you to hear your friend's voice during a very loud pep assembly.

• Inattentional Blindness

• Signal Detection Theory

• Difference Threshold

• Cocktail Party Effect

Phil's friends were secretly putting rocks in his backpack every day to see how long it would take him to notice that it had gotten heavier. They were testing his

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• sensation

• selective attention