Knowledge check 2

The area of the brain that receives information from the nose is directly connected to the limbic system, rather than relayed first through the thalamus. This connection may explain why smells are often involved in...

• pain sensations

• altered states of consciousness

• subliminal messages

• vivid memories

• retinal disparity

The process by which your ears convert sound waves to neural impulses is called...

• sensory adaptation

• accommodation

• parallel processing

• sensory introduction

• Transduction

a person typically fails to consciously perceive their own nose in their line of vision. This best illustrates...

• subliminal perception

• change blindness

• cocktail party effect

• selective attention

• visual cliff

If you are expecting an important text message, you are much more likely to notice the sound as soon as the message arrives. This best illustrates...

• priming

• signal detection theory

• difference threshold

• absolute threshold

• Weber's law

Racial and ethnic stereotypes can sometimes bias our perceptions of others' behaviors. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• retinal disparity
• interposition
• top-down processing
• perceptual adaptation

The eye’s “blind spot” is related to:

• light rays focusing too far in front of the retina.
• light rays focusing too far behind the retina.
• a cluster of cells around the fovea which contains cones, but no rods.
• an area without receptor cells where the optic nerve leaves the eye.

After hearing that Bryce had served a prison sentence, Janet began to perceive his friendly behavior as insincere and manipulative. This best illustrates the impact of: 

• perceptual sets.
• visual capture.
• bottom-up processing.
• sensory adaptation.

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

The smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected between two stimuli in known as

• Sensory Adaptation

• Absolute Threshold

• Difference Threshold

• Weber's Law

Jaxon wears a tie whenever he goes to work so he won't get written up. Now he wears a tie to any formal occasion. This is

• spontaneous recovery

• extinction

• generalization

• discrimination