Unit 3 Review

The lowest level of stimuli someone can detect

• Difference Threshold
• Pitch
• Frequency
• Absolute Threshold

Subliminal Definition

• A flawed sampling that produces an unrepresentative example.
• A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
• One's sense of competence and efficiency.
• Below one's threshold for conscious awareness

What is gustation?

• Sense of smell
• Sense of taste
• Sense of pressure
• Sense of touch

Which of the following is defined as a tendency or bias to perceive something instead of another thing?

• perceptual constancy
• perceptual predisposition
• perceptive adaptation
• perceptual set

What is bottom up processing?

• Begins with the retrieval of sensory information from our external environment to build perceptions

• the interpretation of incoming information based on prior knowledge, experiences, and expectations
• Begins with the perception of our world to interpret new sensory info

• the inability to see the intricate details in an image and only being able to see the “big picture”

What is perception?

• The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.
• The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from the environment.
• The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
• Conversion of one form of energy into another

What is Olfaction? 

• Sense of smell
• Sense of taste
• Sense of pressure
• Sense of touch

Focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• Selective Attention
• Fovea
• Change Blindness
• Context

What is the point on the retina where no receptors are located?

• Retinal disparity

• Optical discontinuity

• Blind spot

• Receptorial vacuum

Desirable objects seeming closer than they actually are is an example of which influence on perception?

• Context
• Motivation
• Emotion
• State