Sensation and Perception

The sense of movement and body position

• Hearing
• Sight
• Kinesthesis
• Olfaction
• Touch

to twist out of true meaning or proportion

• Distort
• Tangle
• Switch
• Dilate
• Weave

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

When a person rubs an elbow after smacking it into a table, that person is

• creating competition between pain and nonpain impulses
• focusing attention toward the pain.
• decreasing nonpain impulses in the area.
• increasing pain impulses in the area

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

• constancy.
• perception.
• motion parallax.
• ratio.

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.