Psychology - 4. 1 Sensation & Thresholds

You are learning a new language and you listen to a "Learn While you Sleep" podcast

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

You are walking home from a party and you hear footsteps behind you.

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

You hear your name called and, without looking, you know who is calling you

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

You go to the store for your parent/guardian to buy potatoes that are on sale. You want the most for your money

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

You look for your contact lens that has fallen on the white floor

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

A music group records "Buy our album" backwards on one of their songs

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

You try to find your cellphone in your room during a power failure

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

You have been asked to judge the different chilies that the students taking Foods and Nutrition course have made and pick out the best one

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

While judging the different chilies you have to find the one that contains cinnamon

• Absolute Threshold

• Just Noticeable difference

• Subliminal Threshold

Term for when the nervous system sorts through all the sensory information

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