Psychology - Sensation & Perception

What is sensation?

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

• refers to how the mind loses information

• refers to how we store information

When the raw sensory stimulus activates a sensory receptor, we call this process:

• Sensation

• Perception

• Recognition

• Response system

Which defines perception?

• how we perceive different things

• how we interpret the information from the external world

• how we sense things from the external world

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.  

• Senstation
• Perception
• Gestalt Awareness
• Sensory organization

The storage and retrieval of what has been learned.

• Memory
• Decay
• Retrieval
• Sensory memory

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

What is Signal Detection theory?

• Ability to detect various sounds and colors

• Ability to focus on one stimulus and ignore others

• Ability to see traffic signals

The word Gestalt means

• Whole/shape/form

• Psychonanalysis

• mind

• behaviour

Key elements of Gestalt psychology are

• our mind fills in the gap

• Mind seeks to avoid uncertainty

• The whole is identified before the parts

• all of the above

Smell is transmitted to the brain via the.....

• Optic Nerve
• Olfactory Nerve
• Auditory (chochlear nerve)
• Sensory Nerve