Sensation and Perception

What is Sensation?

• Sensation refers to the process of sensing our environment through touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell.

• refers to how the mind process information

• refers to how we store information

The sense of movement and body position

• Hearing
• Sight
• Kinesthesis
• Olfaction
• Touch

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

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.

Vibration is crucial to which sense?

• sight
• hearing
• smell
• taste

If an elderly person thinks that food does not taste as good as it used to, what is the likely reason?

• a decline in his or her kinesthetic senses
• a decline in his or her cochlea
• a decline in his or her vestibular system
• a decline in her or his olfaction

Suppose that you are viewing two objects at different distances in the same line of vision. What can you determine about these objects by moving your head back and forth?

• which object is bigger
• which object is moving faster
• which object is more brightly lit
• which object is closer

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.

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

• colors

• shapes

• sizes

• distant objects