Sensation and Perception Quiz

What is the neurological disorder that impairs a person's ability to perceive or recognize faces?

• Aphasia

• Prosopagnosia

• Agnosia

• Apraxia

What is the bottom-up process by which our senses receive and relay outside stimuli?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Cognition

• Consciousness

What is the minimum stimulation needed to register a particular stimulus 50% of the time called?

• Difference Threshold

• Weber's Law

• Signal Detection Theory

• Absolute Threshold of Sensation

What is the process called when our senses adjust to constant stimulation?

• Sensory Adaptation

• Selective Attention

• Perceptual Set

• Feature Detection

What law states that we perceive differences on a logarithmic scale rather than a linear scale?

• Signal Detection Theory

• Opponent-Process Theory

• Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

• Weber's Law

What part of the brain is responsible for facial recognition?

• Fusiform Gyrus

• Cerebellum

• Amygdala

• Hippocampus

What is the name of the theory that suggests the retina houses three specific color receptor cones that register red, green, and blue?

• Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory

• Opponent-Process Theory

• Feature Detection Theory

• Signal Detection Theory

What are the receptor cells in the retina that detect gray scale and are used in peripheral vision called?

• Ganglion Cells

• Bipolar Cells

• Rods

• Cones

Where does visual information travel to in the brain after passing through the optic nerve and thalamus?

• Temporal Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

• Frontal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

What is the ability to process and analyze many separate aspects of a situation at once called?

• Serial Processing

• Parallel Processing

• Feature Detection

• Selective Attention