Sensation

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

Perception ca be defined as-

• how we perceive different things

• how we interpret the information from the external world

• how we sense things from the external world

Absolute threshold refers to

• The maximum stimulation required to say anything

• minimum usage of sense organs

• The minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular stimulus

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.

A principle that states, for any change in a stimulus to be detected, a constant proportion of that stimulus must be added or subtracted.  

• Gate-Control Theory
• Weber's Law
• Difference Threshold
• Multiple constant 

Alice is eating a piece of fruit. After a while, she notices that the fruit tastes less sweet and tangy than it did when she first bit into it. Alice is experiencing ____.

• habituation
• accommodation
• sensory adaptation
• subliminal perception

The smallest difference between two stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time is called

• absolute threshold
• difference threshold
• sensory adaptation
• subliminal perception

Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.

• encoding; detection
• detection; interpretation
• interpretation; organization
• threshold; transduction

Juan's bag of marbles is twice as heavy as Beth's. If it takes 5 extra marbles to make Beth's bag feel heavier, it will take 10 extra marbles to make Juan's bag feel heavier. This best illustrates

• absolute threshold

• difference threshold

• sensory adaptation

• closure

Finding a cold classroom a little more comfortable once you have been in there for a while would be an example of

• sensory interaction

• stimulus generalization

• just noticeable difference

• sensory adaptation