Unit 3 Sensation and Perception Part 1

As she looks at a face, Jamie is able to recognize it as the face of her mother. Which of the following explains why she can recognize her mother’s face?

• Selective attention

• Transduction

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Signal detection theory

Charles and his wife are at a loud baseball game, yet are able to have a conversation with each other in spite of all the noise around them. Which principle best explains this scenario?

• Bottom-up processing

• Weber’s law

• The cocktail party effect

• Top-down processing

• Sensory adaptation

As Jeff reads his psychology textbook he is able to convert the light waves into signals that his brain can interpret due to the concept of

• transduction.

• perception.

• priming.

• signal detection theory.

• threshold.

Natalia is washing her hands, and she adjusts the faucet handle until the water feels just slightly hotter than it did before. Natalia’s adjustment until she feels the change in temperature is an example of

• a subliminal stimulus.

• an absolute threshold.

• a difference threshold.

• signal detection.

• perceptual constancy.

Tyshane went swimming with friends who did not want to get into the pool because the water felt cold. Tyshane jumped in and after a few minutes declared, “It was cold when I first got in, but now it’s fine. Come on in!” Tyshane’s body became accustomed to the water temperature due to

• priming.

• absolute threshold.

• difference threshold.

• selective attention.

• sensory adaptation.

Which perceptual process explains why you can see varied aspects of your favorite singer’s face and instantly recognize him or her?

• Selective attention

• Accommodation

• Psychokinesis

• Blindsight

• Parallel processing

What do we call the specialized neurons in the occipital lobe’s visual cortex that respond to particular edges, lines, angles, and movements?

• Rods

• Cones

• Bipolar cells

• Feature detectors

• Ganglion cells

Which of the following structures helps you most in detecting the color of your friend’s shirt?

• Rods

• Cones

• Fovea

• Lens

• Cornea

Your best friend decides to paint her room an extremely bright electric blue. Which of the following best describes the physical properties of the color’s light waves?

• No wavelength; large amplitude

• Short wavelength; large amplitude

• Short wavelength; small amplitude

• Long wavelength; large amplitude

• No wavelength; small amplitude

If you scratch your eye, which structure are you most likely to damage?

• Pupil

• Iris

• Cornea

• Lens

• Fovea